One of my favorite reads. Pairs great with Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore if you're looking to get real existential.
I’m about 70% of the way through it but @drewmagary.bsky.social’s The Hike is currently on sale wherever ebooks are sold and it is very good and uncomfortable! There’s also a crab!
October 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
One of my favorite reads. Pairs great with Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore if you're looking to get real existential.
Back on the old site, I was a mutual follow with Mark Knoller and we had an occasional back-and-forth. I was always awed by his encyclopedic knowledge of the White House, and I'm glad I wasn't alone. RIP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
Mark Knoller, 73, White House Reporter and Font of Presidential Facts, Dies
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Back on the old site, I was a mutual follow with Mark Knoller and we had an occasional back-and-forth. I was always awed by his encyclopedic knowledge of the White House, and I'm glad I wasn't alone. RIP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
The latest Try Hard hit me like a ton of bricks with this quote:
"Perfection impresses people, and imperfection is what drives connection."
@alexlaughs.bsky.social doesn't miss!
pca.st/aimdilw1
"Perfection impresses people, and imperfection is what drives connection."
@alexlaughs.bsky.social doesn't miss!
pca.st/aimdilw1
Erika Casupanan Sings in Public
pca.st
August 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The latest Try Hard hit me like a ton of bricks with this quote:
"Perfection impresses people, and imperfection is what drives connection."
@alexlaughs.bsky.social doesn't miss!
pca.st/aimdilw1
"Perfection impresses people, and imperfection is what drives connection."
@alexlaughs.bsky.social doesn't miss!
pca.st/aimdilw1
Loved the recent Articles of Interest, but a little disappointed that @trufelman.bsky.social didn't work in the Outkast lyric from So Fresh, So Clean. (Is this the whitest thing I've ever posted? Probably.)
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/new-episod...
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/new-episod...
New Episode: Zippers
Perhaps the least-likely invention
articlesofinterest.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Loved the recent Articles of Interest, but a little disappointed that @trufelman.bsky.social didn't work in the Outkast lyric from So Fresh, So Clean. (Is this the whitest thing I've ever posted? Probably.)
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/new-episod...
articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/new-episod...
I'm not sure when I became a fan of @alexlaughs.bsky.social (It's kind of an odd thing to be an early fan of a podcast producer, right?), BUT Alex's new show "Try Hard" freaking ROCKS.
defector.com/mattie-goes-...
defector.com/mattie-goes-...
Mattie Goes To A Yoga Class | Defector
The first time I did yoga was in a beachside studio in Ewa Beach, Hawaii in 2010. I was visiting my family there for the summer, and my mom had recently become a regular at the studio. I remember the ...
defector.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I'm not sure when I became a fan of @alexlaughs.bsky.social (It's kind of an odd thing to be an early fan of a podcast producer, right?), BUT Alex's new show "Try Hard" freaking ROCKS.
defector.com/mattie-goes-...
defector.com/mattie-goes-...
I will always regret not seeing Gaga in a tiny SF club in 2008 because I misunderstood what the promoter had typed in a text message.
The pop star also reminisced about her days playing San Francisco clubs.
Lady Gaga honors Ozzy Osbourne with hell-raising San Francisco show
The pop star also reminisced about her days playing San Francisco clubs.
bit.ly
July 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I will always regret not seeing Gaga in a tiny SF club in 2008 because I misunderstood what the promoter had typed in a text message.
You’ve inherited a movie theater. What’s your first double feature?
July 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
You’ve inherited a movie theater. What’s your first double feature?
Check out 6:30ish for a special appearance by *this guy* in a Ford Bronco t-shirt.
It’s The Chicago Movie Draft live from Chicago on The Big Picture, featuring the Dueling Third Chairs.
open.spotify.com/episode/7ciC...
open.spotify.com/episode/7ciC...
The Chicago Movie Draft LIVE in Chicago!
The Big Picture · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Check out 6:30ish for a special appearance by *this guy* in a Ford Bronco t-shirt.
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A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
July 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
Between @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, @npr.org and @pbs.org, we're inching ever closer to a country without free media. My small protest today:
July 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Between @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, @npr.org and @pbs.org, we're inching ever closer to a country without free media. My small protest today:
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There are plenty of covers of Broken Social Scene's "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl," but this one by Maggie Rogers and Sylvan Esso may be the best: open.spotify.com/album/6o9ALc...
Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Maggie Rogers · Single · 2025 · 1 songs
open.spotify.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
There are plenty of covers of Broken Social Scene's "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl," but this one by Maggie Rogers and Sylvan Esso may be the best: open.spotify.com/album/6o9ALc...
Doesn’t help anything, but I called this a decade ago. Looks more real every day.
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
www.nbcnews.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Doesn’t help anything, but I called this a decade ago. Looks more real every day.
We said goodbye to our beloved Audrey this morning. A decade, almost to the day, since we adopted her.
Hug your pets, friends.
bendashley.substack.com/p/for-audrey
Hug your pets, friends.
bendashley.substack.com/p/for-audrey
For Audrey
The best dog.
bendashley.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We said goodbye to our beloved Audrey this morning. A decade, almost to the day, since we adopted her.
Hug your pets, friends.
bendashley.substack.com/p/for-audrey
Hug your pets, friends.
bendashley.substack.com/p/for-audrey
#Severance, devoid of context:
a woman sitting at a desk with a quote that says we need to remember what 's important in life friends waffles work
ALT: a woman sitting at a desk with a quote that says we need to remember what 's important in life friends waffles work
media.tenor.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#Severance, devoid of context:
Honest-to-God thought this was real, and I wasn't that surprised.
Trump Announces SEAL Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid
Trump Announces SEAL Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid
WASHINGTON—Addressing the country to reveal that one of the greatest threats facing the nation had been eradicated, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that SEAL Team Six had killed a U.S. prote...
theonion.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Honest-to-God thought this was real, and I wasn't that surprised.
Heard Tate McRae on the radio this morning and decided that my favorite Tate McRae song is
a woman in a brown dress dancing with the words i 'm a little bit written below her
ALT: a woman in a brown dress dancing with the words i 'm a little bit written below her
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Heard Tate McRae on the radio this morning and decided that my favorite Tate McRae song is
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Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies
March 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies
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hulu collapsing during the oscars is a collision of both ways streaming broke communal entertainment
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
March 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
hulu collapsing during the oscars is a collision of both ways streaming broke communal entertainment
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space)
meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)
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Bye, Mitch.
BREAKING: Sen. Mitch McConnell says he won't seek re-election in 2026, ending a 40-year Senate career. nbcnews.to/4i5uZ9p
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bye, Mitch.