Christian Brayman

University of South Carolina '21 | Gamecocks Lacrosse #10 | Natty Champs ‘19

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[WBR @W_B_Rick]

This video contains the most merciless, efficient killing machine America’s ever produced.

Behind Curt Cignetti in the pace car there’s also a few Blackhawk helicopters.

[Baku 🐧 @Mazursky8895]

AFC North titles since 1990:

Tennessee Titans: 3
Jacksonville Jaguars: 2
Cleveland Browns: 0

(The Titans and Jaguars left the division 26 years ago in 2000)

[Luka Updates @LukaUpdates]

SGA what did you do 🫣

IG/shsunstake

[Chelly @chellgod]

Why would anyone want to go to a different bar?

Bar Bill is unbelievable.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

RYAN MILLER BANGS THE DRUM FOR GAME 2 🥁

[James Bond @007]

007 reporting for duty.

On this day in 1963 DR. NO was released in America.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Happy Star Wars Day

[🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤 @VHSDVDBLURAY4K]

The physical media market decline slowed dramatically, from 23% in 2024 to about 9% in 2025, while 2026 could break even

4K UHD sales rose 12% in 2025 while Steelbooks were up 25%

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

What a night for Minnesota. Amazing fans and they’re finally getting out of the first round. Quinn Hughes is a complete superstar. He floats out there. What a move by Billy Guerin trading for him. Team became dominant with him. Avs Wild should be incredible.

[delaney @delaneyhwill]

sports are actually great for anxious people like why be worried about my job when i can be worried about 23 men who do not know i exist

[NFL @NFL]

Pittsburgh native drafted by the @Steelers in his hometown.

A dream come true for @EHeidenreich44 👏

NFL Draft on NFLN/ESPN/ABC
Stream on @NFLPlus

[PortersBurgh @PortersBurgh]

ITS DRAFT DAY!!!!

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Adam @adampensel]

You can actually see the wave of reacting to the goal from the opposite end of the stadium as they realize in succession what happened. Insane angle.

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

They wrote us off. We flipped the script.

[erin @painacotta]

how can u not be romantic abt pittsburgh

[NHL @NHL]

Players with 21 point-per-game seasons: Sidney Crosby.

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