Jon Dale
@jondale.bsky.social
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
Where my post office pervs at…got 2 from the Eastern Sierras
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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
no one's ever done this meme right, so i'm going to finally make an accurate version
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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…
whistlestop.substack.com/p/1990-old-r...
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
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...
whistlestop.substack.com/p/1990-old-r...
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...
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
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...
whistlestop.substack.com/p/1990-old-r...
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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...
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...
whistlestop.substack.com/p/jonathan-r...
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...
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...
whistlestop.substack.com/p/jonathan-r...
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
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
Where my post office pervs at…got 2 from the Eastern Sierras
July 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Where my post office pervs at…got 2 from the Eastern Sierras
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
-Colt Keith
-Dillon Dingler
-Janson Junk
-Hunter Bigge
June 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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
-Colt Keith
-Dillon Dingler
-Janson Junk
-Hunter Bigge
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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
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.
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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
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...
Weird week to have finished reading The Day of the Locust
June 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Weird week to have finished reading The Day of the Locust
Conclave is about the pope?? Thought it had to do with a spanish-speaking percussionist
February 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Conclave is about the pope?? Thought it had to do with a spanish-speaking percussionist
What I’m up to in grad school
January 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
What I’m up to in grad school
When will they make a superhero movie about him
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
When will they make a superhero movie about him
White whale, white benz, etc
January 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
White whale, white benz, etc
Fiyah…fiyah on the moOoOuntain
January 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Fiyah…fiyah on the moOoOuntain
Great day in watching TV with rabbit ears:
-looney tunes
-college basketball
-cajun pawn stars
-looney tunes
-college basketball
-cajun pawn stars
January 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Great day in watching TV with rabbit ears:
-looney tunes
-college basketball
-cajun pawn stars
-looney tunes
-college basketball
-cajun pawn stars
Yacht rock doc rocked.
Finally getting into Boz Skaggs aka the king of the discount vinyl bin.
Finally getting into Boz Skaggs aka the king of the discount vinyl bin.
December 30, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Yacht rock doc rocked.
Finally getting into Boz Skaggs aka the king of the discount vinyl bin.
Finally getting into Boz Skaggs aka the king of the discount vinyl bin.
Somehow had never seen the Macedonian Orthodox Church on Kedzie in Logan. Stunning!
December 22, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Somehow had never seen the Macedonian Orthodox Church on Kedzie in Logan. Stunning!
Broke: Chalamet as Dylan
Bespoke: Oscar Isaac as Destroyer
Bespoke: Oscar Isaac as Destroyer
December 22, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Broke: Chalamet as Dylan
Bespoke: Oscar Isaac as Destroyer
Bespoke: Oscar Isaac as Destroyer
Raconteurs playing on coffee shop speaker...time is a flat circle
December 19, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Raconteurs playing on coffee shop speaker...time is a flat circle
Wrote a roundup of 2024 & music I loved. Featuring:
-liquid mike
-jlin
-this is lorelai
-rafael toral
-cindy lee
-claire rousay
& more!!
open.substack.com/pub/whistles...
-liquid mike
-jlin
-this is lorelai
-rafael toral
-cindy lee
-claire rousay
& more!!
open.substack.com/pub/whistles...
Indie Rock Saves Man's Little Life
2024: A Year in Review
open.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Wrote a roundup of 2024 & music I loved. Featuring:
-liquid mike
-jlin
-this is lorelai
-rafael toral
-cindy lee
-claire rousay
& more!!
open.substack.com/pub/whistles...
-liquid mike
-jlin
-this is lorelai
-rafael toral
-cindy lee
-claire rousay
& more!!
open.substack.com/pub/whistles...
Tom Petty as Lucky. the cultural-musical hegemony that King of the Hill held!
December 18, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Tom Petty as Lucky. the cultural-musical hegemony that King of the Hill held!