Genesis are about to play what will most likely be their last shows in the U.S., and I wrote this piece for about my longtime love for this band, and about how hard it's gonna be to say goodbye.
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Jelisa Castrodale
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Journo. (, ) Record collector. Jeopardy! winner. Anxiety enthusiast. We could be best friends. YNWA.
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The Champions League commentator just compared City to the Buffalo Bills. I don’t even LIKE City and I’m upset.
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This airport lounge is playing Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides Now’ because there was one guy in here who didn’t look depressed enough.
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Austria Salzburg Ultras turned up for their u7s game! 😭😭
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Sharing this again, bc it’s still true in Season Three:
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I seem to have overestimated how cool I’d look if I casually sang along with the Everclear song that was just playing in Five Guys.
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A little kid reading a paperback bigger than either of his legs just ran into me on the sidewalk because he was so wrapped up in his book. I felt like I needed to apologize to him, for making him lose his place.
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Yea your home is nice but does it have a balcony that overlooks a soccer stadium because this one Leyton, East London does.
Currently listed for £350,000
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(I meant like a local murder or a historic murder, not one that I’ve done.)
(I have not done any murders.)
(STOP TALKING, YOU’RE MAKING IT WORSE.)
(I will probably sit in the kitchen.)
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I spend way too much time walking around the house trying to decide where I’ll sit if a documentary crew ever needs to interview me about a murder.
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Would bet a significant amount of money that Jack Grealish would fall for the ‘got your nose’ trick.
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Would’ve given my top row of teeth for the feed to go down during Liverpool’s match yesterday. #TOTARS
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In the summer of 2013, I watched a woman on the Tube eat a pear vertically — stem first — and I have thought about her every day since.
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I am watching the England-France match in an airport lounge and the World’s Loudest Man keeps providing unnecessary commentary about “Henry Kane.” I’m 99% sure I’m going to get into my first fight today.
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Mad respect for the man in Santiago who has set his television up on the sidewalk and is asking everyone who’s walking by to pay him to watch the Brazil match.
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I should note that the four (!!!) TSA agents who were tasked with dealing with me and my 8-tracks — one of which had to be taken out of its original wrapping — couldn't have been nicer about the whole deal.
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In addition to the 8-tracks (both Genesis, obvs) was well chuffed to find these two in Brussels last week.
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I recently learned that if you tell security at the Amsterdam airport not to put your 8-tracks through the X-ray machine, they’ll want to talk about record collecting. When you ask the same at JFK, you’re pulled aside and given a TSA screening best described as ‘robust.’
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Requirements at a Hotel:
- Check in
- Check out
Requirements at an Airbnb
- Wash sheets
- Take out trash
- Build carport
- Convince host’s wife to come back, just come back home, Barbara
- Quiet restless spirit of Victorian ghost child
- Leave five-star review
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I like to put random instructions in the Special Requests section when making hotel reservations. I asked for a framed photo of Phil Collins this time, and The Dominican delivered.
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Going out as Peter Gabriel tonight. No, not for Halloween.
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Arsenal are the Champions of Liz Truss' entire tenure as Prime Minister, you'll never sing that
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The 40 proof liqueur has what you love about both Eggos and eggnog.
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Just checked into my hotel in Knoxville, TN and this Pat Summit-themed room goes insanely hard.
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At some point, my friends and I stopped sending each other concert presale codes and hangover cures and started sending texts that are like "Yo, I just found chicken breasts for $2.99/pound."
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The Trader Joe's cashier looks at me with tired eyes. ‘Oh wow, great choice!’ he makes himself say. ‘Do you have big plans for this butternut squash?’
‘We don't have to do this,’ I tell him.
‘Thank you,’ he says, dissolving into an autumnal mist. ‘I'm free.’
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Tried to speak Spanish last week in Argentina, which means that my already dodgy Italian has gotten even dodgier. Just told a man in Milan ‘Good egg’ and ‘Happy Christmas’ instead of ‘Good afternoon.’ I should never leave my house.
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Also everyone needs to see this majestic artwork from the Museo del Fútbol. I want a flag-waving Luis Suarez as a back tattoo.
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If Sting ever opens a bakery, he’d better call it The King of Pain.
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I’ve just spent the night in the Newark airport, which is something I would recommend to everyone you hate.
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The United Arab Emirates city is now home to a pair of two-star restaurants in the Michelin Guide's debut in Middle East.
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