McgRAW

@trinIrigoyen *all the lyrics to Good Life* #wethenorth

[McgRAW @walker_munchie]

Like this tweet and I’ll make a quick charcoal sketch of you as a creepy monster

[nba paint @nba_paint]

Kawaii Raptor.

[Smash 🐝 @SmashKnowsBall]

When LaMelo threw the ball off of Jalen Brunson’s big ass head 😭😭

[🍂 @matthews2hell]

since season is over ts deadass still the craziest moment of these playoffs

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A restaurant entrance. The hostess asked me one question, and I treated it like the night before a battle.

"Booth or table?"

Terrain. She was asking me to choose terrain.

A table stands exposed on open ground. Approachable from all four directions. A booth — a booth has walls. A high back. Defensible corners. You see the whole room, and the room cannot flank you.

"Booth," I said, in the voice of a general.

"Booth's fine, dude," said the man behind me, to his own hostess, in one second, with no strategy whatsoever.

How. How do they choose terrain so lightly. In Japan, the seat decides everything — who faces the door, who sits deepest, who is honored, who keeps watch. Four hundred years of seating charts soaked in politics.

Here, a teenager with menus assigns fortresses, and the nation simply trusts her.

She led us in. I took the side facing the entrance. My friend slid in across from me, turning his back on the door completely. Unguarded. At peace.

"Why do you always sit facing the door?" he asked.

"Someone must."

"It's an Applebee's."

It is an Applebee's. And it has never once been breached on my watch. I accept no thanks.

I confess the rest. The booth was soft. The corner held me kindly. I have slept in armor on mountainsides, and a vinyl bench by a window undid me in four minutes.

A warrior does not choose the seat that flatters him. He chooses the wall at his back.

Booth. Always booth. And if they give me a table, I will survive that too.

I will simply face the door, and eat a little faster.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid]

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING… PROUD TO BE A GOONER #COYG

[Minnesota Timberwolves @Timberwolves]

hunt as a pack. 🐺

round 2 in the wild wild west.

[Nice Kicks @nicekicks]

Kevin Durant debuted his “Slim Reaper” Nike KD 18 against the Pelicans 💀🔥

[T-Pain @TPAIN]

Banger??? I barely know her!

[MLB @MLB]

The Dodgers dropped a One Piece anime short for their theme night 🤯🏴‍☠️

(via @Dodgers)

[Tyrese Haliburton @Hali]

Nah, was to pack y’all up

[Julian @Asghoull]

😭😭😭😭😭

[Nice Kicks @nicekicks]

FIRST LOOK 👀

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s Converse SHAI 001: ARES GRAY

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

A Brampton private school was at risk of closing if it didn’t raise $80,000 by the end of the month—until Scottie Barnes stepped in with a major donation to help save it 🔥

“Polkadots Playland and Montessori Academy had been fighting to keep its doors open as a result of growing financial debt. The school, which provides programs for children in pre-kindergarten to Grade six, including for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), had been struggling to financially recover after it had been closed for a period following the COVID-19 pandemic…According to the principal, Barnes’ donation was crucial to reach the goal and save the school from closure.”

(Via @nowtoronto )

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

THIS IS INSANE. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[**4444** @4xx1111]

OG Kratos woven crewneck ~

[tara strong @tarastrong]

2013 #NewYearsResolutions I vow to stop making out with my cousin

[Meggy @igetsoinspired]

thanked my boyfriend for dinner and he said “Thank Draft Kings”