Eric Sandy

Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television. Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.

"He once walked in on Britt reading Updike and stopped cold. His deafening silence spoke volumes, but he felt moved to speak anyway, 'You’re not reading him, are you?'" I'm an Updike fanboy from way back, but this is a hilarious scene.

Babe, wake up. A new Vincenzo Barney piece on Cormac McCarthy just dropped.

Honestly a hilarious video.

I love the first four Iron & Wine albums, but without really meaning to I kind of just fell off after Kiss Each Other Clean, which came out in 2011! The new album, out today, is a true delight. Really good Friday morning writing-and-coffee music.

Having to feed a robot all of the context about who each source is, why they matter, what information is most important and why — and then correcting all of its mistakes — sounds like more work than just writing the dang article yourself

Imagine being a bright-eyed J-School grad eager to launch your reporting career, and the editor of Cleveland's metro daily puts you on blast for wanting to be a journalist instead of an AI content farmer. cleveland.com/news/2026/02/j…

Alone in my room, watching old clips of the Tower City fountains in action. What a show. youtube.com/watch?v=OYhmQj…

The world you grew up in no longer exists. clevescene.com/news/cleveland…

Happy birthday to Don DeLillo, the only GOAT our household recognizes.

Three guys huddled around coffees at the local Panera, talking about how good the tweets used to be in the old days. We were in the prime of our life, says one guy.

Doing 85 on I-480 WB, catching up on the Today In Ohio gang talking pickleball: cleveland.com/news/2025/11/w…

First thing was the box came with only three sleeves. I thought, where's the rest? I phoned up the customer service team at EchelonSphere™, and a guy named Teddy says they leave that space empty in the box for you to "imagine the possibilities." That's what Teddy told me. "Imagi

This time it was EchelonSphere™. "Precision Begins in the Mind." Every time this happens, I say to my lovely wife, "Never again!"

Help! I got catfished by a new direct-to-consumer golf ball brand again!

Knockout obit from the Cleveland area, penned by the man himself, Linus Uzodimma Thomas-Ogbuji, RIP: obits.cleveland.com/us/obituaries/…

He’s done it again folks!😲👏🏻👏🏻 I suggest you pre-order your copy.

I like a nice Italian joint that’s proudly BYOB (Bring Your Own Bop-It).

I’m a WCSB guy living in a JazzNEO world.

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.” “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.” "And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume." Read more here: variety.com/2025/film/news…