Death + Taxes

I am enjoying this. I’m finding the experience not unlike reading a 40,000-word book about two classes you took in high school that you’d mostly forgotten about but people who weren’t in those classes are just obsessed with learning about. (Or at least seem to be, particularly in a week like this one.) Sort of like having a part on a sitcom, but when you were five, so you don’t really remember much of it and kind of like learning about it yourself. But I’m only about 10 percent in.

Here are this week’s stories:

SATURDAY Book Review: Barry Svrluga’s “The Grind” (The Wall Street Journal)

MONDAY The Weirdness of Being a Mets Fan This Season (Sports On Earth) Your Donald Trump Feud Rolodex (Bloomberg Politics)

TUESDAY Are the Tigers Admitting This Is All Over? (Sports On Earth)

WEDNESDAY Bill Simmons and HBO Make Perfect Sense (Sports On Earth) Your USMNT On American Soil Power Rankings (Sports On Earth) Review: “Pixels” (Deadspin)

THURSDAY Don’t Freak Out THAT Much About the USMNT Loss (Sports On Earth)

FRIDAY Great Moments From This Year’s Hall of Fame Class (Sports On Earth)

This Week’s Story Count: Nine.

Also, I did a podcast with Alyson Footer, who is in Cooperstown this weekend, and I made this video, which features me talking to baseball fans, always a fun activity. Also, go read Ratter. And also Craggs.

Have a great weekend, everyone, and remember: According to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought, particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Happy Birthday to our 16th president: Abe! Fun fact: Lincoln invented an early version of the kegstand when he once lifted a barrel of whiskey over his head and guzzled booze from the plughole. Talk about partying like a president! Illustration by @johnmathiasart from Party Like a President written by @brianabrams.

PowerHouse arena and mentalflossr Magazine are hosting the launch party for my book, Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief from the Oval Office.

Tuesday, February 10. 7pm. 

George Bush Sr.’s chapter of Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief from the Oval Office: a comic strip about the night #41 blew chunks at a state dinner in Japan.

Party Like a President comes out in February and is now available for pre-order. (You can go to my Tumblr homepage to view more illustrations from the book.)

Yer either with us er against us — pre-order Party Like a President.

Here’s “The People’s Day” illustration for chapter 7: Andrew Jackson’s Animal House.

Pre-order a copy here: www.PartyLikeaPresident.com

We'll stop sharing illustrations from this guy's book soon. We swear. But they're pretty good. So ...

Staffers nicknamed him “Our Drunk” or “Our Drunken Friend” behind his back.

Pre-order a copy of Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief from the Oval Office here.

Rutherford B. Hayes’s first lady, nicknamed “Lemonade Lucy,” banned wine and liquor from White House public functions. "The water flowed like champagne," said Attorney General William Evarts.  www.PartyLikeaPresident.com is out February 10 and available for pre-order. Chapter 19 illustration by John Mathias.

Now available for pre-order: My book on the drinking, drug-addled lives of the U.S. presidents — with 44 presidential cocktail recipes and nearly 100 illustrations.

“Party Like a President" comes out in February. We hope you like it.

This guy works for us. Give it a look: www.PartyLikeaPresident.com

I joined Tinder as a dog.