July 21, 2024, 11:18 a.m.

Perfect Sentences, 82

Perfect Sentences

It is still Werewolf Month, now almost three months later.

"#036 - Moonstruck (1987)" Kit Buckley's newsletter the unbearable weight

What an opening sentence!! This is still probably my favorite newsletter. Some runner up sentences:

Driving through Lexington, KY, I imagine that every Jersey Mike’s sandwich restaurant is not a franchise named after a singular Michael but is instead an independent owner-operator concern, each run by a different guy named Mike from New Jersey, signposts from some great Michael-from-New-Jersey diaspora.

After Cincinnati, the main thing is water parks and then nothing.


The first theft shows up as rightful ownership.

"Habits of Assembly", Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, in Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media


The food is gendered, but it’s also pansexual.

A podcast review of the Amazon Prime show Sausage Party

Submitted by John.


Trying to make sense of J.D. Vance’s sexual politics is, frankly, exhausting.

"J.D. Vance Is the Key to Understanding the American Right", Melissa Gira Grant for The New Republic


But bitter gods look down at ants crawling through the avalanche of politics and quick romance navigating the expanse of rectangles and circumstance

"Rectangles and Circumstance", Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion


Can the furry hackers please come out of retirement just long enough to leak the grindr data from the RNC

Sasha Costanza-Chock on Twitter

Submitted by David.


Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose.

The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits, Charles Darwin

Via a re-read of Vibrant Matter for exams prep. Still think Vibrant Matter is a little annoying, but Jane Bennett does know how to pull a good quote.

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