Notices by Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (holberg@mstdn.social)

Burns and Allen are a distant memory by now, so the significance may be lost on most people who see their crypt at Forest Lawn.

But I like that George gave Gracie top billing—as it were—for eternity.

Anecdotal. But Vegas was lousy with Cybertrucks when they were first released and now I hardly see any. Maybe they all fell apart?

I’m honestly shocked at how liberally so many elites in Epstein’s circle allowed themselves to be photographed.

If I were Bill Clinton, no way in hell would I have ever posed like this with anyone who wasn’t Hillary or a social peer.

The Epstein stuff must be SO BAD for Trump. And it’s so crazy to think some number of people know exactly why it’s bad and are still working to protect him.

I don't think an octogenarian even needs an excuse for not going on tour this year.

Variety: Rolling Stones Call Off 2026 Tour

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/rolling-stones-cancel-2026-tour-1236609841/

Our president is a fucking toddler who must be praised for coloring inside the lines even when he didn’t. His allotted time was 15 minutes.

The horrible thought that the Reiners’ house—just blocks south of OJ’s—might become a tourist attraction, too. But this case seems to be tracking in a much less sensational direction.

That OJ business turned Brentwood into a truly surreal experience for a while. Like an endless line of cars on Sunset waiting their turn to gawk at his house.

I was walking in the south section of that neighborhood—the Reiner side of Sunset—when a rental car stopped next to me.

Man (to me): Do you speak English?
Woman (to man): Of course he speaks English.
Man (to me): Where is OJ’s house?
I didn’t answer immediately—considering whether I would.
Woman (to man): Maybe he doesn’t speak English.

The ordering of Moscow Mules always reminds me I pronounce Moscow differently than most Americans, who tend to hit the W hard. COW. I've always just done a long O at the end, assuming British influence, but without being conscious of when this happened.

This kind of stuff is probably the reason Londoner friends insisted my accent isn't the pure Californian I thought it was haha.

This might seem like the most obvious advice on earth—but it only occurred to me at the last moment and maybe I’m not the only one?

My car started insisting it wanted a new battery. My usual shop wanted $650 to change it—$450 for the battery, $200 for labor. Plus I’d have to make an appointment, schlep out there and wait.

Then I thought—wait—AAA may do non-emergency battery changes? A very pleasant rep arrived within 30 minutes, installed a new battery and charged me a total of $211.

Something you can’t miss when rich older hetero couples are thick on the ground: Men are allowed to let their looks go to hell and women aren’t.

I couldn’t find Yukon Gold potatoes anywhere recently. A few shops had something sort of like them but not really. Turns out there’s a reason.

Serious Eats: Why Yukon Gold Potatoes Are Quietly Disappearing From Stores

https://www.seriouseats.com/yukon-gold-potato-decline-11857300

A solid headline from the AP.

I’ve been very on the record for over a decade as loathing Elon Musk. Now there’s this a stone’s throw from where I live.

Fortune: Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again

https://fortune.com/2025/11/08/boring-company-drilling-fluid-fine-wastewater-elon-musk/

Switched from A/C to heat about a month ago. Seems appropriate that December 1 is the first day I actually want that heat to feel like heat—enough to bump the standard number up a few degrees.

The bananas world we live in. While checking the Coast Guard-swastika story, I happened upon this.

CBS: Pennsylvania court rules home seller didn't have to disclose swastika tiled into basement floor

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/ruling-swastika-tiled-basement/

Don't know why I thought of Nell Carter -- crazy but talented -- but here she is in a kinda odd pairing with Andy Gibb covering 'Up Where We Belong' from an episode of GIMME A BREAK. I mean, her voice could blast him out of the room. God bless network TV of the early '80s haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JScBpraON-o

Meanwhile, these followers of Christ are spending $2 billion to rebrand the Defense Department as the War Department. Praise Jesus!

An article about hotel rates during F1—lower than the last few years, natch—and I’m cracking up at ‘typically considered luxury.’

Views of a suite at Wynn—where I usually stayed before I moved out here. Not pictured: The second bathroom and the massage room.

‘Typically considered luxury’ haha.