The Joe Gross
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Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
Nicholas Ray went so effin hard
“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”
The Elemental Pleasures of Johnny Guitar - Bright Wall/Dark Room
'Johnny Guitar' is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Nicholas Ray went so effin hard
I hope this guy was holding the flag
February 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I hope this guy was holding the flag
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons
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my phone is blowing up with people theorizing about who holds sway in the Magic tournaments that are OBVIOUSLY taking place backstage and at the Olympic village, America been great
my entire skyline is just people talking about amber glenn being into magic the gathering. i love bluesky, the nerdy sports website for millennials
February 8, 2026 at 7:53 PM
my phone is blowing up with people theorizing about who holds sway in the Magic tournaments that are OBVIOUSLY taking place backstage and at the Olympic village, America been great
Srsly. I hope the gents at Austin Books and Games are watching figure skating.
HOW AM I JUST LEARNING AMBER GLENN PLAYS MAGIC THE GATHERING
February 8, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Srsly. I hope the gents at Austin Books and Games are watching figure skating.
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Ever heard of bisexual lighting? Well, this is the exact opposite of that
February 7, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Ever heard of bisexual lighting? Well, this is the exact opposite of that
“The gold medal is on a silver platter”
Nothing beats Olympic coverage
Nothing beats Olympic coverage
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“The gold medal is on a silver platter”
Nothing beats Olympic coverage
Nothing beats Olympic coverage
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(documentary talking heads)
MARC MARON: you gotta understand, he put out FULL BLAST positivity CONSTANTLY — so naturally i could never stand him ha ha — but it blinded a lot of industry people
KEVIN JAMES: his positivity was magnetic
SILHOUETTE (clearly Baby Bop): Barney was.. a master manipulator
MARC MARON: you gotta understand, he put out FULL BLAST positivity CONSTANTLY — so naturally i could never stand him ha ha — but it blinded a lot of industry people
KEVIN JAMES: his positivity was magnetic
SILHOUETTE (clearly Baby Bop): Barney was.. a master manipulator
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
(documentary talking heads)
MARC MARON: you gotta understand, he put out FULL BLAST positivity CONSTANTLY — so naturally i could never stand him ha ha — but it blinded a lot of industry people
KEVIN JAMES: his positivity was magnetic
SILHOUETTE (clearly Baby Bop): Barney was.. a master manipulator
MARC MARON: you gotta understand, he put out FULL BLAST positivity CONSTANTLY — so naturally i could never stand him ha ha — but it blinded a lot of industry people
KEVIN JAMES: his positivity was magnetic
SILHOUETTE (clearly Baby Bop): Barney was.. a master manipulator
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Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
THREAD, as it were.
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
THREAD, as it were.
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Bingo.
I have never, ever, *ever* worried about "competition" for my writing from LLMs. An LLM might theoretically create a music history podcast someone might listen to. It could never create *mine*.
LLMs can create "content" but they'll never create art.
LLMs can create "content" but they'll never create art.
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Bingo.
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Patti Smith Dream of Life is on Tubi if you’re tired of Olympics
February 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Patti Smith Dream of Life is on Tubi if you’re tired of Olympics
Had no business working as well as it did.
I need everyone to watch Wonder Man, legit one of the most beautiful stories of friendship I've seen in a long time.
February 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Had no business working as well as it did.
Terrific piece
The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones. n.pr/4a4kToa
This season, 'The Pitt' is about what doesn't happen in one day
The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones.
n.pr
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Terrific piece
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Gotta hand it to the new Game of Thrones series, it’s not a franchise I usually associate with words like “sweet” and “genuinely comedy funny” and “not endlessly rapey”
February 8, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Gotta hand it to the new Game of Thrones series, it’s not a franchise I usually associate with words like “sweet” and “genuinely comedy funny” and “not endlessly rapey”
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Actually said to myself how much this photo of Maddie looked like a painting yesterday and lo
The Reluctant Bride, by Auguste Toulmouche, 1866
February 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Actually said to myself how much this photo of Maddie looked like a painting yesterday and lo
Kinda rad if INDUSTRY wrapped up as a series with EVERYONE dead or totally broken from doing that do a living. Not just some unlucky folks — everyone.
February 8, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Kinda rad if INDUSTRY wrapped up as a series with EVERYONE dead or totally broken from doing that do a living. Not just some unlucky folks — everyone.
I have a pretty serious (by normie standards) collection of mass market sci-fi and crime paperbacks. Forever the best format.
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:09 AM
I have a pretty serious (by normie standards) collection of mass market sci-fi and crime paperbacks. Forever the best format.
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This one was just added a couple weeks ago. archive.org/details/ajc0...
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This one was just added a couple weeks ago. archive.org/details/ajc0...
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Looking for evidence of Trump's guilt in the Epstein files is NOT like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It's like looking for a needle in a barrel of needles.
It's like looking for a needle in a barrel of needles.
February 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Looking for evidence of Trump's guilt in the Epstein files is NOT like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It's like looking for a needle in a barrel of needles.
It's like looking for a needle in a barrel of needles.
When Parking Costs Twice the Show’s Cover: hitting Red River in 2026.
February 8, 2026 at 1:59 AM
When Parking Costs Twice the Show’s Cover: hitting Red River in 2026.
…huh
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
…huh