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I’ve been thinking about this for a number of days and while I don’t feel 100% prepared to deliver remarks, deliver I must. For those tempted to unfollow, please excuse this temporary lack of brevity. 1/437
This scene in the Wire when Bodie and McNulty are having sandwiches in a garden and Bodie finally comes to terms with his role in the Baltimore ecosystem: "We like them little bitches on the chess board."
Everything Kenan Thompson and Tom Hanks do in the SNL Black Jeopardy sketch.
Primo Levi, in his book Survival in Auschwitz, detailing an exchange between prisoners where one is explaining to the other why they must wash and dry themselves and do their best not to submit to the squalor of the camp (The book is incredible and terrifying). 
"Maybe your best course would be to tread lightly."
This magnificent goddamn song.
And this magnificent goddamn song.
And this magnificent goddamn song.
This line, 800 words into Mike Lopresti's last minute column on deadline for USA TODAY, written on May 3, 2011, the night bin Laden was killed. I was working the nighttime online editing shift when it came to our inboxes, and this floored me.
The Panthers-Cardinals playoff promo commercial from 2015 featuring 'Run the Jewels': screengrabber.deadspin.com/the-espn-nfl-p…
The CPR scene from The Office:
The marriage of Bill Withers' 'Use Me' and Cap Rooney's return from injury in Any Given Sunday, which by the way is a perfect movie and an accurate representation of the NFL in every way.
Just Trick Daddy's entire career -- don't you dare @ me about this.
'Frank Sinatra Has A Cold', probably the best unauthorized profile ever written. esquire.com/news-politics/…
This 2013 Under Armour commercial set in Baltimore, featuring the best Oklahoma Drill I've ever seen on film.
Sean Evans' interview technique: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
This entire book, by @AoDespair. google.com/books/edition/…
Quinten Tarantino's 'Eggplant' scene in True Romance:
"I DON'T WANT YOUR LIFE."
This Chappelle Show skit, which told us more about ourselves than we could’ve understood at the time. cc.com/video-clips/jm…
And finally, songwriter Stock Aitken Waterman's 1987 masterwork.
