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I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.
"You want that Animal Style?"
I paused.
I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.
"...Animal Style."
"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"
I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.
"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."
Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"
I stopped. Even the potatoes?
"The potatoes also become animals?"
"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."
"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."
"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"
I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"
"It's, like, how many patties you want."
"How many is the most honorable?"
"...Four is a lot."
"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."
She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.
It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.
I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.
For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.
They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.
So tell me, America.
The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?
And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?
Panama v Croatia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have a bridge that spans a split in their map.
Panama’s Bridge of the Americas crosses the canal, connecting the isthmus. Croatia’s Pelješac Bridge links southern Croatia to the rest of the country, bypassing Bosnia’s Neum corridor.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian
England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Four Frenchmen skipped work to be here for the World Cup.
“There’s nothing Italian about [the hoagie]. But it was so good"
“We had what you call Cheez Whiz. It’s not cheese, but it was good”
"He’s like ‘Go Birds.’ I thought he meant pigeons or seagulls"
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NYC, today is Primary Day. Polls are open NOW and close at 9 PM tonight. Be sure to get your vote in before then. For your polling site and more information, go to https://t.co/GlAUBlBPj1. Make your voice heard, New York City.
No matter how much the other side tries to divide and distract, the question New Yorkers face at the ballot box tomorrow is not “When did you arrive?”
It is “Can you afford to stay?”
For a city you can afford: Vote Darializa, Claire, and Brad.
Hate has no place Uptown and in the Bronx, nor in our politics.
Tomorrow, we have a choice: keep the hateful politics of the past, or welcome a new day Uptown and in the Bronx.
There’s a pretty extensive history of our government purposely flooding the streets with drugs for inexcusable reasons — to quell rioting and Black liberation, to fund illegal wars, etc. This is just the latest verse in the same song.
This is John Chell, former Chief of Dept for the NYPD. He supports Antonio Reynoso in the primary because he doesn't like socialists.
John Chell shot and killed an unarmed Black New Yorker in 2008 and a jury awarded the victim's family $2.5 million - courtesy of NYC taxpayers. Then in 2024, John hurt his foot, so he filed a disability claim. He now receives $295,000 a year in Disability Pension, again courtesy of the taxpayers of New York City.
He said "Socialism does not work". Oh, and he doesn't like Zohran Mamdani.
To review:
✅️ John Chell killed an unarmed Black man in NY
✅️ John Chell cost the city tons of $$$ because of that shooting
✅️ John Chell receives $24,583 a month in Disability Pension
✅️ John Chell says socialism is bad
✅️ John Chell thinks you should vote for Antonio Reynoso
Don't be a John Chell.