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Jon Dale
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Writer. Studying Urban Planning at UCLA
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Where my post office pervs at…got 2 from the Eastern Sierras
July 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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no one's ever done this meme right, so i'm going to finally make an accurate version
September 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I read every Jonathan Gold restaurant review from 1990 and wrote about them, about insurgent citizenship and gastro-cultural regimes. I made maps and I wrote my own review, of a Chicago-themed bar on Pico Boulevard. Get your food writing here on Labor Day…

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1990: Old Regime Gives Way to New
Reviewing Food Reviews, Maps, and My Own Review
whistlestop.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I read every Jonathan Gold restaurant review from 1990 and wrote about them, about insurgent citizenship and gastro-cultural regimes. I made maps and I wrote my own review, of a Chicago-themed bar on Pico Boulevard. Get your food writing here on Labor Day…

whistlestop.substack.com/p/1990-old-r...
1990: Old Regime Gives Way to New
Reviewing Food Reviews, Maps, and My Own Review
whistlestop.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Starting a new series, where I review a year from Jonathan Gold’s archive. Will be publishing thoughts on his first full year of restaurant reviews, 1990, soon, but until then I wrote a little introduction with some really great pull quotes from ‘88 and ‘89

whistlestop.substack.com/p/jonathan-r...
Jonathan Reads Jonathan: Introduction
Exploring the Jonathan Gold Archive
whistlestop.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Starting a new series, where I review a year from Jonathan Gold’s archive. Will be publishing thoughts on his first full year of restaurant reviews, 1990, soon, but until then I wrote a little introduction with some really great pull quotes from ‘88 and ‘89

whistlestop.substack.com/p/jonathan-r...
Jonathan Reads Jonathan: Introduction
Exploring the Jonathan Gold Archive
whistlestop.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Started the new King of the Hill and wow….there is an argument to be made that it should have been scrapped when Johnny Hardwick passed away
August 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Where my post office pervs at…got 2 from the Eastern Sierras
July 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If he makes the show, Gage Wood will join a growing list of baseball players with pornstar names:
-Colt Keith
-Dillon Dingler
-Janson Junk
-Hunter Bigge
June 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A review of jukeboxes in 1979 in four Twin Cities establishments: 400 Bar, The Longhorn, Mayslack’s, and Nicolino’s. From Musicians’ Insider, June 1979.
June 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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NYC DOT is rolling out a new design for conventional bike lanes that will improve safety + visibility for everyone at crossings, where half of all traffic deaths occur. The agency will begin adding these along select new & existing lanes w/high crash rates. More: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...
June 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Weird week to have finished reading The Day of the Locust
June 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Conclave is about the pope?? Thought it had to do with a spanish-speaking percussionist
February 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
What I’m up to in grad school
January 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When will they make a superhero movie about him
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
White whale, white benz, etc
January 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is so nuts
January 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Fiyah…fiyah on the moOoOuntain
January 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Great day in watching TV with rabbit ears:
-looney tunes
-college basketball
-cajun pawn stars
January 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Yacht rock doc rocked.
Finally getting into Boz Skaggs aka the king of the discount vinyl bin.
December 30, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Somehow had never seen the Macedonian Orthodox Church on Kedzie in Logan. Stunning!
December 22, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Broke: Chalamet as Dylan
Bespoke: Oscar Isaac as Destroyer
December 22, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Raconteurs playing on coffee shop speaker...time is a flat circle
December 19, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Wrote a roundup of 2024 & music I loved. Featuring:
-liquid mike
-jlin
-this is lorelai
-rafael toral
-cindy lee
-claire rousay

& more!!

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Indie Rock Saves Man's Little Life
2024: A Year in Review
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December 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Tom Petty as Lucky. the cultural-musical hegemony that King of the Hill held!
December 18, 2024 at 4:42 PM