(ominous rumbling)
I am a longtime fan of Scaachi Koul’s newsletter “A List Of People I Am Mad At,” and in the run-up to my divorce I read her book “Sucker Punch,” which I also...
year in review, links, brief musings on the future of art, the usual
Another year? Already? (Witcher voice) Hmm... fuck. I keep trying to write this newsletter and coming up totally empty. I don't have any neat themes or...
the road so far
Happy November 5th to all who observe!
the salmon and the trout
If you send me a video, odds are extremely high that I won't watch it. Sorry — it's just how I am. Ninety percent of the time, I see these things on my...
spooky paws
Something you may have noticed is that I don’t do a lot of writing about individual people. I write about demographics and places and trends and theories and...
sunday scaries < monday morbs
August, not to put too fine a point on it, is the worst month — not for everyone, just for me. In news it’s “silly season,” when nothing of actual importance...
the artist is absent
Lately I have been thinking — hello, by the way — about how online visibility seems to be the default. I don’t mean that in the political sense, though that...
[John Mulaney voice] You ever seen a ghost?????
If I started every one of these that came after an abrupt hiatus of unknown length with an apology for said hiatus of unknown length, that would literally...
okay maybe one more
(Source) This letter has two parts: the fun part and the personal part. This is the fun part. rowan morrison 🥭 @timesnew_rowanbetween the eight months of...
NO MORE MEMES BABY
I’M FREE
KEY RACE ALERT KEY RACE AL
What I would really like to be writing right now is an essay about the dual phenomenon of 1. white cis women voting for Trump in increasing numbers and 2....
"i ask if your rut has started and you’re laughing?"
Good morning!!! If you are reading this we are now in day FOUR OF NO ELECTION RESULTS. We are also living in the first moment of human history in twelve...
"am I oomf, Jesus?"
Okay — to be totally honest with you, even though everyone on the face of the Earth was like, “This is going to go on for weeks!” — I didn’t actually expect...
"cheese borger"
[puts my phone on airplane mode and then throws it into a woodchipper, just to be safe] Uhhh I guess you’re getting at least one more of these?...
"pined cone"
"Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love?"
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!! Hannah Hillam @HannahHillamFebruary 7th 2019974 Retweets1,778 Likes(About eight times a week I put on James McAvoy’s ludicrous louche...
"Ohhh!!"
For what it’s worth, I swear I did have some actual posts lined up to edit (eternal refrain) but then, you know, here we are. Here are today’s ten images,...
"i love effort.... and doing things"
Don’t worry, that doesn’t count as one of the ten. Here they are!(This one’s a twofer.)
no problem man! stay diabolical!
I have an album on my phone titled “Reactions.” It contains 4,363 images as of today. A lot of these images bring me enormous joy in times of stress. Last...
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