ock sportello
@ocksportello.bsky.social
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little end of november blog on a bunch of stuff: charlie kirk face swaps, twitter falling apart, armand hammer’s mercy, and helen dewitt’s your name here www.neverhungover.club/p/why-is-cha...
Why is Charlie Kirk's Face on the Michael Jordan No No No Meme?
Plus AI, the busted algo, Your Name Here, and Armand Hammer's Mercy
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November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
little end of november blog on a bunch of stuff: charlie kirk face swaps, twitter falling apart, armand hammer’s mercy, and helen dewitt’s your name here www.neverhungover.club/p/why-is-cha...
wrote about FUNNY MEN for the ringer www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/t...
Tim Robinson and Conner O’Malley, the Patron Saints of Male Frustration
This year, Tim Robinson and Conner O’Malley have reached the peak of their comedic aims, toeing an impossible line between analyzing modern masculinity and falling prey to its more odious features
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November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
wrote about FUNNY MEN for the ringer www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/t...
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A brief tour through the bad parts of the NBA, with Ock Sportello: defector.com/a-brief-tour...
A Brief Tour Through The Bad Parts Of The NBA, With Ock Sportello | Defector
Harry and I did not know that Nico Harrison was about to be fired when we invited famed blogger Ock Sportello back on Nothing But Respect this week, but the timing worked out perfectly, as our…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A brief tour through the bad parts of the NBA, with Ock Sportello: defector.com/a-brief-tour...
some quick thoughts on the NBA gambling indictments: what they are, what they aren't, how insane they're going to make everyone for the foreseeable future www.neverhungover.club/p/quick-thou...
Quick thoughts on the NBA gambling indictments
This morning, in a political stunt meant to distract the sports-watching world from Egor Dëmin going 4 of 6 from deep in his NBA debut, Kash Patel’s FBI arrested Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and a ...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
some quick thoughts on the NBA gambling indictments: what they are, what they aren't, how insane they're going to make everyone for the foreseeable future www.neverhungover.club/p/quick-thou...
blogged about the evil brooklyn nets www.neverhungover.club/p/my-own-bar...
My Own Barclays Center Fascist Humiliation Ritual
The 2025-26 Never Hungover Brooklyn Nets season preview; or, how and whether to keep loving a team that hates your guts
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October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
blogged about the evil brooklyn nets www.neverhungover.club/p/my-own-bar...
you've probably seen videos of power slap, the insane new venture from dana white where people take turns slapping a defenseless person in the face. last month, I got all access to power slap 14 in new orleans for @derangepub.bsky.social www.derange.co/p/what-is-po...
Gluttons for Punishment
An inside look at Power Slap, Dana White's next big bet.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
you've probably seen videos of power slap, the insane new venture from dana white where people take turns slapping a defenseless person in the face. last month, I got all access to power slap 14 in new orleans for @derangepub.bsky.social www.derange.co/p/what-is-po...
for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I had the privilege of writing about the new album from former hot boy BG, which bears the unwelcome distinction of being the first rap album ever released with pre-approval from a federal probation officer lareviewofbooks.org/article/feds...
Feds Watching | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jack Lubin considers state censorship and New Orleans rapper B.G.’s album “Freedom of Speech,” in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
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July 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I had the privilege of writing about the new album from former hot boy BG, which bears the unwelcome distinction of being the first rap album ever released with pre-approval from a federal probation officer lareviewofbooks.org/article/feds...
back to blogging: wrote about friendship, eephus, vulcanizadora, and the varying degrees of success with which male friendship has been treated at da movies this year open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...
Fellas on Screen
On Friendship, Eephus, Vulcanizadora
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June 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
back to blogging: wrote about friendship, eephus, vulcanizadora, and the varying degrees of success with which male friendship has been treated at da movies this year open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...
holiday weekend big blog: I wrote about the NBA playoffs' swag crisis www.neverhungover.club/p/toward-a-u...
Toward a Unified Theory of Uncool
Considering the NBA's swag crisis, Zyn, and the West Village Girls
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May 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
holiday weekend big blog: I wrote about the NBA playoffs' swag crisis www.neverhungover.club/p/toward-a-u...
blogged about my favorite movie of the year www.neverhungover.club/p/do-you-hav...
Do You Have Tequila, and/or Xanax?
A quick appreciation of Amalia Ulman's Magic Farm, my favorite movie of the year so far
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May 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
blogged about my favorite movie of the year www.neverhungover.club/p/do-you-hav...
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All the billy woods interviews have been great, but I'm partial to this masterpiece by Ock Sportello
Laments about the Chicago Bulls & the life of the modern artist, literary & cinematic inspirations, and not wanting to see Nas with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
Laments about the Chicago Bulls & the life of the modern artist, literary & cinematic inspirations, and not wanting to see Nas with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
Looking for An Honest Man: A Conversation With billy woods
Ock Sportello speaks to the Backwoodz frontman about his new album, fatherhood, the infamous orchestra-backed Nas concert at Carnegie Hall and more.
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May 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
All the billy woods interviews have been great, but I'm partial to this masterpiece by Ock Sportello
Laments about the Chicago Bulls & the life of the modern artist, literary & cinematic inspirations, and not wanting to see Nas with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
Laments about the Chicago Bulls & the life of the modern artist, literary & cinematic inspirations, and not wanting to see Nas with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
got to talk with the best rapper for the best blog 🪡🪡🪡 www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
Looking for An Honest Man: A Conversation With billy woods
Ock Sportello speaks to the Backwoodz frontman about his new album, fatherhood, the infamous orchestra-backed Nas concert at Carnegie Hall and more.
www.passionweiss.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
got to talk with the best rapper for the best blog 🪡🪡🪡 www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
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wait look i made a special graphic for this megamix...graphic design IS my passion
May 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
wait look i made a special graphic for this megamix...graphic design IS my passion
in this week's blog, i sort of reviewed the shrouds, the rehearsal season 2, and the wolves-lakers playoff series as a way of asking: why is everyone so insane now? www.neverhungover.club/p/smug-consp...
Smug Conspiracism
Concerning The Shrouds, The Rehearsal, Wolves-Lakers Round 1, and Savannah Bananas Great Replacement Theory
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May 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
in this week's blog, i sort of reviewed the shrouds, the rehearsal season 2, and the wolves-lakers playoff series as a way of asking: why is everyone so insane now? www.neverhungover.club/p/smug-consp...
wrote about skrillex, baby invasion, smoke shops, rot www.neverhungover.club/p/smoke-shop...
Smoke Shop America
Thinking about Skrillex, Baby Invasion, and Galaxy Gas
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April 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
wrote about skrillex, baby invasion, smoke shops, rot www.neverhungover.club/p/smoke-shop...
I wrote about the playboi carti album MUSIC not as the beginning of a new era but as a fitting summation of the era we’ve been stuck in for a while now www.neverhungover.club/p/music-and-...
MUSIC and the Eternal 2017
Some loosely collected thoughts on Playboi Carti's MUSIC
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March 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I wrote about the playboi carti album MUSIC not as the beginning of a new era but as a fitting summation of the era we’ve been stuck in for a while now www.neverhungover.club/p/music-and-...
wrote about the super bowl lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-br...
A Brand-New Map Without Us | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jack Lubin reports from Super Bowl week in New Orleans.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
wrote about the super bowl lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-br...
wrote about the rise and fall of sports quote graphic memes and the offputting era of meme-farming www.neverhungover.club/p/who-the-he...
Who The Hell Want Me?
Against the sports quote graphic industrial complex
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February 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
wrote about the rise and fall of sports quote graphic memes and the offputting era of meme-farming www.neverhungover.club/p/who-the-he...
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A really smart essay about how Timothée Chalamet mastered the art of the modern press run in support of "A Complete Unknown."
The ball knowing on ESPN, the obscure Dylan covers on SNL, the gushing about the Based God on Nardwuar.
By @ocksportello.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/02/11/c...
The ball knowing on ESPN, the obscure Dylan covers on SNL, the gushing about the Based God on Nardwuar.
By @ocksportello.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/02/11/c...
We Are All In Club Chalamet
For his POW debut, Ock Sportello reports on how Timothée Chalamet has become the first genuinely inescapable movie star of his generation.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A really smart essay about how Timothée Chalamet mastered the art of the modern press run in support of "A Complete Unknown."
The ball knowing on ESPN, the obscure Dylan covers on SNL, the gushing about the Based God on Nardwuar.
By @ocksportello.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/02/11/c...
The ball knowing on ESPN, the obscure Dylan covers on SNL, the gushing about the Based God on Nardwuar.
By @ocksportello.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/02/11/c...
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Another Ock Sportello banger.
Hector Banana-bread and the Prison of Banger-Hunting
Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present
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January 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Another Ock Sportello banger.
I wrote about--bear with me--the stupid, fake victor wembanyama nickname meme, the ellen selfie, and the way that banger-hunting has made twitter so unpleasant www.neverhungover.club/p/hector-ban...
Hector Banana-bread and the Prison of Banger-Hunting
Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present
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January 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I wrote about--bear with me--the stupid, fake victor wembanyama nickname meme, the ellen selfie, and the way that banger-hunting has made twitter so unpleasant www.neverhungover.club/p/hector-ban...
in which an insane lamelo ball off the backboard pass forces me to consider lamelo as the first great zoomer hooper; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ball www.neverhungover.club/p/the-life-a...
LaMelo Ball and the Brainrotted Human Spirit
"Lamelo...to himself...oh yeah," or; toward a theory of LaMelo Ball as the first great Zoomer athlete
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January 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
in which an insane lamelo ball off the backboard pass forces me to consider lamelo as the first great zoomer hooper; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ball www.neverhungover.club/p/the-life-a...
wrote about my favorite things of 2024 www.neverhungover.club/p/the-never-...
The Never Hungover Best of 2024
Music, Movies, Books (Book?), Moments
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December 3, 2024 at 8:30 PM
wrote about my favorite things of 2024 www.neverhungover.club/p/the-never-...
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"Because the type of person who decides to build their identity on the internet is also often the type of person who relies upon an unstudied and pathological contrarianism to distinguish themselves from the dreaded average opinion-haver..." www.neverhungover.club/p/scam-ameri...
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
"Because the type of person who decides to build their identity on the internet is also often the type of person who relies upon an unstudied and pathological contrarianism to distinguish themselves from the dreaded average opinion-haver..." www.neverhungover.club/p/scam-ameri...
wrote about young men and donald trump and a nation of scammers open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...
SCAM AMERICA 777
Another explanation for the conservative turn among young men
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November 22, 2024 at 9:54 PM
wrote about young men and donald trump and a nation of scammers open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...