The Cheesecake Factory: A bacchanalian multiverse where the splendor of Rome meets the appetite of America.
TikTok by Jonathan Kite
Kite's main bit on TikTok is the most spot-on Anthony Bourdain impression you'll ever see, and he never disappoints.
Lots of things are going wrong in this world, but you can spare a few hours to just get hype, to whisper into the ether, "Bing Bong.”
"BING BONG! It's Knicks Weekend", Hell Gate
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did they just make estonia's steve aoki learn roller derby
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This sensory description — pine tree air fresheners — contains a callousness toward nature that snubs the place entirely.
"59. Extraction", Leah Sottile in her newsletter The Truth Does Not Change According To Our Ability To Stomach It
He was a retired bowler and sports poet, and he maintained that bowling was held in even lower esteem than poetry, though it was a close call.
Gringos, Charles Portis
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Did you know that it rained glass?
TikTok by OddPride
Our compact with the darkness was for nothing.
a Magic: The Gathering card with copy written by John Darnielle
Via Bluesky.
I recently watched The Accountant on an airplane, and like with most movies I’ve watched on planes, I loved it even as I missed entire chunks of dialogue to stare at the screen showing Emma (2020) four rows down.
"Join Me in Prayer for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning", Celia Mattison for her newsletter Deeper Into Movies
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When I read nonfiction I'm a tourist, I don't actually know how they do things around here.
"italian leather", John Darnielle's blog Addenda
An embarrassing personal goal of mine is to write a book that would impress John Darnielle, because his writing has been deeply important to me for over twenty years, so this is useful information.
My surgeon is one of Norway's prime specialists in the field of hopelessly under-researched female misery.
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully, Karen Havelin
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With that attempt at even-handedness out the way, let’s get kicking.
"Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open", Robert Heaton's personal blog
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While filming A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy, he achieved one of the world's highest scores on the arcade version of Donkey Kong.
Wikipedia entry for Will Forte
If you have trapped yourself in a world without love, it is impossible to teach children what love is.
"How to Fuck", Mike Monteiro's newsletter Mike Monteiro's Good News
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