It became a structure of feeling I could no longer inhabit.
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, Caroline Tracey
Runner-up sentences:
I wanted to be a cowboy because I wanted to earn the West like a merit badge.
I didn't even know whether I liked women, despite having committed to the bit.
It really makes those midnight chats with the love bot sort of bittersweet to know that the orgasms are measured in metric tons of melted glacier.
"Don't Use A.I. To Do This", Colson Whitehead for The New York Times
Submitted by Emily.
On a phone call with the Rag, Coté energetically explained that “bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine.”
"An UWS Bee Distribution: ‘A Shoe Box of 12,000 Flying, Singing, Venomous Creatures’", Scott Etkin for the West Side Rag
Via Melissa on Bluesky. Independently, Brad sought to submit the quotation part, which is fair, but I think the context setting of 1) this being in the West Side Rag and 2) this being said on a telephone—imagine only hearing one side of this conversation on the street!!—adds to its delight.
these people make like tens of times more money than i do but their work is just tamping down a volley of dessicated backpacking poops into muskets and then free firing it into the fucking economy
jonny@neuromatch.social on Mastodon
Submitted by Natalie.
On the internet, the future and the past are the same.
Dax Riggs as quoted in The Guardian
The problem is that I want to examine the nubiform texture of these foodstuffs at Red Lobster’s culinary-development center, in Orlando.
"I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America", Caity Weaver for The Atlantic
Submitted by Charlotte. Some runners-up from me:
I encounter on this quest three types of Americans, because only three types exist.
Roaming its purgatorial interior, you could be wandering a mega–cruise ship beached in the desert, or vacationing amid the elevator banks of a parking garage containing every car in the world.
The experience depressed Duncan, whose ambitions were far loftier than flashing her thighs for catcallers.
Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City, Rennie McDougall
Very grateful that through my side gig at Urban Omnibus I had a chance to read this book, which is out May 5.
Dr Pepper and ESPN's Pat McAfee will bring fresh energy to college football coverage through weekly integrations during The Pat McAfee Show's signature commercial-free hour.
Press release from Keurig Dr Pepper
Submitted by Clay with the comment "The unabashed contradiction here makes my skin crawl."
It does not acquire the soul of poetry.
Werner Herzog as quoted in The Verge
i actually asked herzog if he’s interested in The Sphere, and he told me the orb was not a real sphere, only half a sphere
Some fun background context for the previous sentence.
The family is a machine for the privatization of care.
Kathi Weeks in an interview in Dissent
Submitted by Erin.
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