Telling You Today, June 17, 2026
Brief dispatch from the occupied city of Los Angeles. By Thursday last week, LA Taco was reporting that due to fear of workers being disappeared by ICE,...
Telling You Today: June 12, 2025
On Friday I saw posts of the skirmish in Paramount. It was dizzying to suddenly see street fighting at a suburban Home Depot, but my clearest thought was: at...
Telling You Today: April 8, 2025
Dear Friends, It's spring and so, in spite of it all, I feel ebullient and optimistic. The news is of course an onslaught of cruelty and idiocy, but right...
Telling You Today: March 17, 2025
I just read Casey Johnston's memoir about weightlifting, A Physical Education. The author journeys from cardio addiction and restrictive dieting to becoming...
Telling You Today: March 7, 2025
Friends, Clare and I were chatting about the sensation that right now the daylight seems to extend each day at an accelerating rate. Whether real or...
Telling You Today: Feb 13, 2025
Friends, This week I learned about' 'moon lights' via Hayes Davenport's newsletter. Moon lights were an insane-sounding form of urban lighting that used...
Telling You Today: February 4, 2025
Hi everyone, sorry if you just subscribed because this one is kind of a bummer. Also, my first send was plagued by DNS issues that had me marked as phishing,...
Telling You, Today: January 30, 2025
Friends, Thanks for opening – this is a new thing. I'm writing from home in Los Angeles. Current conditions: 60 degrees, partly cloudy. AQI of 64,...