Nick Moran
@nemoran.bsky.social
Man, oh man, you must have the metabolism of a bumblebee.
MJ Lenderman should play the Thanksgiving Day parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
MJ Lenderman should play the Thanksgiving Day parade
When I was in Boy Scouts one of the other kids was the son of an actual Rockette. That’s my Thanksgiving Day parade bona fide.
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
When I was in Boy Scouts one of the other kids was the son of an actual Rockette. That’s my Thanksgiving Day parade bona fide.
Thanksgiving Day parade is such serious business in this house that eldest had to bring her hair brush downstairs, couldn’t waste time brushing upstairs.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thanksgiving Day parade is such serious business in this house that eldest had to bring her hair brush downstairs, couldn’t waste time brushing upstairs.
KEXP YouTube sessions are Seattle’s best propaganda.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
KEXP YouTube sessions are Seattle’s best propaganda.
Movie wants badly to be the Terrence Malick version of a perfect novella by one of my favorite authors and yet like everything Netflix touches it is lacking in translation: too literal, not majestic enough, and the ending is not true to the book in a way that violates its meaning. (Also hi me!)
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Movie wants badly to be the Terrence Malick version of a perfect novella by one of my favorite authors and yet like everything Netflix touches it is lacking in translation: too literal, not majestic enough, and the ending is not true to the book in a way that violates its meaning. (Also hi me!)
“In practice, it feels like a crowdsourced lobotomy.”
A Theory of Dumb
What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“In practice, it feels like a crowdsourced lobotomy.”
"He belonged to a dynasty of sausage-slingers"
Ostrowski, Baltimore’s last remaining sausage king, isn’t done yet
At 71, Victor Ostrowski Jr. is the last Ostrowski sausage-maker standing. Through industry changes and family feuds, he shows no signs of stopping.
www.thebanner.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"He belonged to a dynasty of sausage-slingers"
My man would’ve loved Smell-o-Vision
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My man would’ve loved Smell-o-Vision
“The Southeastern Conference Sweating championships” is what separates prime Harry Crews from the interlopers
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“The Southeastern Conference Sweating championships” is what separates prime Harry Crews from the interlopers
Did everyone know there’s a new Grace Krilanovich novel on the way? If so, you all failed to get sufficiently excited.
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Did everyone know there’s a new Grace Krilanovich novel on the way? If so, you all failed to get sufficiently excited.
Between Rubio and Halligan, bad week for UMiami law grads.
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Between Rubio and Halligan, bad week for UMiami law grads.
Tuna sliders with a half egg nog / half cold brew concoction. The government could’ve saved the people of New Mexico a lot of trouble by simply operating nuclear tests in my stomach.
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tuna sliders with a half egg nog / half cold brew concoction. The government could’ve saved the people of New Mexico a lot of trouble by simply operating nuclear tests in my stomach.
They’re playing Phoenix’s “Fences” loud on the PA because the dream of the aughts didn’t die, it just moved to the suburbs.
Hitting the Owings Mills Wegmans the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
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media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re playing Phoenix’s “Fences” loud on the PA because the dream of the aughts didn’t die, it just moved to the suburbs.
Hitting the Owings Mills Wegmans the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
a close up of a person 's hand holding a watch on their arm .
ALT: a close up of a person 's hand holding a watch on their arm .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Hitting the Owings Mills Wegmans the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
Bag secured. Last weekend of the year, north Baltimore. Get after it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Bag secured. Last weekend of the year, north Baltimore. Get after it.
My college housemates are in Blacksburg for this weekend’s Miami @ VT game and I’m living that Squidward window meme.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My college housemates are in Blacksburg for this weekend’s Miami @ VT game and I’m living that Squidward window meme.
This parenting shit is a breeze
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This parenting shit is a breeze
This weekend’s @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This weekend’s @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls
My chief observation from waking up at 6 every day to run is that when you lose a lot of weight you are just FREEZING all the time
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My chief observation from waking up at 6 every day to run is that when you lose a lot of weight you are just FREEZING all the time
“I stood silent and felt the chili drops dribble down my hair and start falling on my shoulders in little chili raindrops.”
Fights! by Scott McClanahan
November 18, 2025 – “I thought the fight was over, but the fight was never over. The fight had just begun, and so I felt like some dead body on a great battlefield from long ago, and I had learned tha...
www.theparisreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“I stood silent and felt the chili drops dribble down my hair and start falling on my shoulders in little chili raindrops.”
Huis Clos for the social justice set
Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Huis Clos for the social justice set
I don’t know what I did but in recent days every other Instagram Reel suggested to me by the app is related to PREDATOR in some way, and I finally appreciate Mark Zuckerberg.
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I don’t know what I did but in recent days every other Instagram Reel suggested to me by the app is related to PREDATOR in some way, and I finally appreciate Mark Zuckerberg.
"I am bookish as well as godless."
The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"I am bookish as well as godless."
"The Milky Way galaxy contains about three times more American pennies than stars."
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"The Milky Way galaxy contains about three times more American pennies than stars."