Omg Luke has been kidnapped

I keep thinking of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, where an exhausted James Baldwin considers where the civil rights movement is by the early 1980s. There's a moment late in that film when he springs awake with such force. I feel like that's where Coates is now: alive and ready to speak on it.

That image is proof positive that, in a way, he will.

We used to make regrettable jokes about Mutombo's "real" age, but there was a positive subtext to it too: it seemed like he would play (and live) forever.

One of the timeless NBA images.

We used to live in a proper country

The recent clip of her going "That's Bobby.......... DeNiro." Too much power.

OK but is Eric Adams actually going to resign?

A tunnel... under the Highway 401.