Chill Guy Fall

Plus scientific breakthroughs, giant supermarkets, subtle foreshadowing, metal diapers, and sage wisdom by way of Vin Diesel

Dec 08, 2024

Oregon, Georgia, Boise State, Arizona State top CFP field
After a great conference championship Saturday, the 12-team College Football Playoff field is set. Behold the first proper college football bracket, in all its glory:

The first round of games–on December 20 and 21–will each be played at the home field of the lower seed, which means we could get to see multiple snow games. Shoot it straight into my veins.

But after this spectacular season accidentally assembled by idiots, I believe in something. It’s not causeless hope that the sport is headed in the right direction, or that every school will be just fine.
I just know that They Can’t Make This Suck. We get to decide what matters.

Timothée Chalamet impresses on 'College GameDay' — Put some respect on Timothée’s name, he understood the assignment.

NOTE: “They” can’t make it suck but, as someone rooting for the Longhorns to win the SEC, missed field goals can do the trick.

"Just A Chill Guy" Is The Only Thing Men Are Allowed to Be

Magdalene Taylor (Many Such Cases) finding the throughline from the meme of the moment, the Zynternet, and the Manosphere:

But to say that the Zynternet is the same as the Manosphere, that all these guys who listen to podcasts and follow Barstool Sports hate women and want them to lose their rights is a complete misidentification, and one that I think is part of why the Dems lost. I spoke a bit about this on NPR’s It’s Been a Minute back in July, but one of the big cultural problems of the Left is how so much of masculinity has been labelled as conservative and therefore bad. Beer-drinking and sports, for example, are seen as Right-wing coded interests when in fact they are largely non-political activities that anyone can enjoy. But when you start to vilify these everyday, fun things as conservative, you are actually only going to start pushing the people who want to feel free to enjoy them further to the Right.

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

Wait, do I count as a “news influencer?”

The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet
I am not convinced that Bluesky will actually become a thing but if you are making your way over there, throw your bro a follow.

Which Hot Girl on TikTok Will Be Gen Z's Martha Stewart?

Sydney Carlson for Lynnee. 📸 Alana O'Herlihy

Interesting provocation from Alyssa Vingan: Is Martha actually the proto-influencer?

The 'Hawk Tuah' memecoin launch went just as poorly as you'd expect
From a peak market capitalization of $490 million after Wednesday’s launch, to $26.8 million as of this morning. In a parallel dimension, Hailey Welch could be facing jail time; today this probably earns her a gig working for David Sacks.

Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea
Honest question: Is a teen having a parasocial relationship with AI inherently worse than the ones they have with influencers or OnlyFans models (or the ‘spit on that thang’ scammer)?

Why do Ozempic and Wegovy seem to treat everything?
The all-consuming GLP-1 narrative shows no signs of slowing down.

The New Business of Breakups
Perhaps the one thing Ozempic can’t treat (unless you mix it with ketamine).

Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their anuses receive Ig Nobel prize
“What does your dad do?”

If you send someone to save the world, make sure they like it the way it is.

Xander Cage
(aka xXx)

Liquid Death & Depend’s ‘Pit Diaper’ is here to keep metalheads hydrated & hardcore

The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years
This one’s for you, Ramberg:

One of these nearly forgotten classics—the Last Word, which originated at the Detroit Athletic Club in the 1910s—caught the eye of a Seattle bartender named Murray Stenson. The cocktail features green Chartreuse, a somewhat obscure liqueur invented by monks in southeastern France, along with equal amounts of gin, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice. “The simplicity of the formula betrays the complexity of its taste,” Araki said, and Stenson’s revival repopularized the drink to the extent that representatives from Chartreuse eventually visited the bartender to thank him. “I am eternally grateful to this Last Word recipe,” Araki said, speaking for all of us, “as it has a lot to do with why we’re able to get a great, well-balanced cocktail at most dining and drinking establishments today.” The cocktail’s pioneering use of four ingredients in equal parts became a foundation for many new classic cocktails, such as the Naked and Famous, bartender Joaquín Simó’s pitch-perfect mix of mezcal, lime, Aperol, and green Chartreuse’s calmer cousin, yellow Chartreuse.

Love Paris? Now You Can Wear It.
A Paris-based startup went full Zizmorcore and started selling merch (or produits dérivés, in French) for some of the city’s most iconic establishments.

Apologies to the Paris branch of La Bande du Dimanche but out in Los Angeles, Bob did it first (and better).

In Defense of “Y’all,” a Perfect Word
or: The New York Times opinion section is on its shit again, and Texans aren’t having it.

A look inside H-E-B's new South Congress store
You can go to ~~hell~~ Erewhon -- I'm going to ~~Texas~~ H-E-B.

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