Today was the latest edition of the Dream Cruise.
https://www.wxyz.com/money/auto-news/dream-cruise/watch-wxyz-tvs-2026-woodward-dream-cruise-special
The opening to that episode was my personal favorite of the show.
InfoWars Official Statement on the Death of Tim Heidecker
https://bsky.app/profile/realinfowars.bsky.social/post/3msjfmifbwn22
Randall Einhorn, who directed many classic Sunny episodes including the World Series Defense and Who Got Dee Pregnant? was nominated for an Emmy.
Not for Sunny, of course, it was for last year's Abbott Elementary episode Ball Game where the teachers went to a Phillies game. A lot of it was improvised because Einhorn shot it at an actual game. As it turned out, it was the game where Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs, something all time home run champ Mike Schmidt never pulled off.
Yutaka Matsushige, who plays Ryu in Midnight Diner (and Goro in Solitary Gourmet) is in the food/travel show K Foodie Meets J Foodie.
I just watched the first couple of episodes on US Netflix. It's pretty good.
The show also features the Korean singer Sung Si-kyung and the two guys go to restaurants and talk about food, careers, and other things that come to mind. This is a good description.
It's interesting to see Yutaka Matsushige in real life. His personality is not much like Ryu or Goro - he's much more relaxed and approachable in person. He does, however, clearly appreciate good food, but not in a snobbish way.
The vibe of the show is just enjoying food rather than searching for the absolute best or rating everything. They talk about differences between Japanese and Korean food without arguing about what is better.
It's not tightly edited like a lot of US food and travel shows. There's a lot of visual clutter on the screen at times as they squeeze in captions in both English and Korean plus some jokey graphics, and there are some sound effects like a phone game at times.
It's a good hangout show if you like Asian food, and you get an appreciation for Yutaka Matsushige's ability to create characters who are so different.
On Saturday Brandon Scott gave the commencement address at St. Mary's College. You can see it here starting at the 49 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/live/_DelBzHTd6s
I will definitely not bill this as MUST SEE VIRAL VIDEO because it's not particularly newsworthy. Scott graduated from St. Mary's in 2006 and a chunk of the speech is inside references for grads and alums.
But it may be worth watching for people who have only gotten soundbites from the TV and online. He also talks about growing up in Park Heights and seeing someone shot when he was a kid, about the influence of his parents and people at Mervo in driving him to go to St. Mary's and get involved in public office.
He also talks about his pledge to reduce homicides when he took office and rejecting the insistence of a lot of the pundit class that it had to happen through police crackdowns.
It's not great oratory but it's a good speech which connects to the audience and place and definitely not boilerplate fill in the blanks stuff.
(Usual note that Banner articles are available on the Pratt website to library card holders)
That's a record low. Not fourteen, but four. From the article:
"In more than five decades of recorded history, Baltimore Police have never seen a month like April.
"The four homicides recorded last month represent the fewest killings in a month in the city since 1970, when police began tracking monthly crime statistics.
"That’s one fewer life lost to violence than the previous record set in April 2025, according to police, and a dramatic drop from the city’s most violent periods, when there were as many as 45 homicides in a month."
As always, there is no proof of what, exactly is going on. But a couple of things are noteworthy.
One is that this happened without the kind of police crackdown that elite pundits always want. There have been no massive stop and frisk operations, sweeping arrests for tiny infractions like jay walking, or widespread police brutality.
The other is that this is something rising up from communities affected by violence. It's a clear case of ordinary people deciding to cool things down.
A bedrock belief of elites is that ordinary people are too dumb and too impulsive to implement this kind of change themselves and always need someone in authority to do it for them. Ordinary people are often a lot more capable than elites.