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The D.C. Skeeter
I’m sorry but if you don’t have any George Pelecanos books on your DC list, then i can’t take it seriously. Same with missing Chocolate City. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The 101 greatest movies, songs, books, artworks (and more!) about Washington, D.C.
Introducing the D.C. Canon, starring Chuck Brown, Olivia Pope, George Washington, Leonardo da Vinci, Duke Ellington, Rites of Spring and — who could forget? — Gort.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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There’s so much more to this city than setting up pretextual checkpoints, harassing black and brown youth, threatening citizens for filming you, or tearing down pro-immigrant posters and replacing them with dildos in Mt. Pleasant. thebighunt.substack.com/p/a-dc-walki...
A DC Walking Tour for Our Federal Occupiers
Step out of your humvee and take this self-guided walk through the city you're occupying.
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August 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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It’s a good day to refamiliarize oneself with Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842).
April 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Maybe the most perverse instance of unintended consequences is that, thanks to the pitch clock and shortened time between innings, there is only time for the Nats to play one verse snd chorus of A-ha’s “Take On Me” after the seventh inning stretch.

In this essay I will …
April 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Surely this must be the greedy players’ fault, and not something that, idk, 25 of some of the richest people in America could solve by actually spending money on their teams to try and compete? But if Manfred told you this, it must be true.
April 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social remains undefeated
i think people who have actually posted on forums and image boards in the 2000s (or forums in general earlier) have a qualitative advantage on everyone else
April 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Baseball isn’t boring but Lucy Dacus IS
March 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
LAX is playing Glycerine at 7:54 in the morning. And all I can think of is Sadgasm’s “Margarine.” youtu.be/7x35ETy2sbg?...
Margerine By Sadgasm (Simpsons)
YouTube video by GlycerineCrossfade
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March 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
People in the seats around me on my flight to LA are watching Anora, Juror No. 2, and A Real Pain. Movies are back!
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Starting something
Decided that the theme of this newsletter will be a mantra that’s stuck with me for some time: Space + Value = Place.

thebighunt.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome To The Big Hunt
Setting off on the hunt is just the beginning
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March 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The new Isbell album is his Tunnel of Love via his Nebraska. I will not be taking any further questions at this time.
March 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Term 80 life insurance is really just a prop bet on whether I’ll get to watch Super Bowl C.
February 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Imagining Gil Scott-Heron learning that i listened to this while writing a motion to dismiss a consumer class action
February 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Ichiro not being unanimously voted into the Baseball HOF
January 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If the bathroom has two urinals and you choose the shorter one, i assume it’s because you have a hog. Sorry.
January 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dry January except when a partner at the firm invites me to drinks.
January 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People don’t even ask you for Zyn any more. They just look at you like this.
January 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
RIP Jimmy Carter, you would have loved snarling traffic in DC to prove a point about investing in public transportation.
January 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Help sir, my face hath melted open.spotify.com/track/090M4a...
Hole In One
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio · I Told You So · Song · 2021
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December 31, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I pointed out every barn we passed between DC and Chicago to my wife and remarked that each one could be turned into a wedding venue. The bit never got old.
December 30, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Going up to every man i see in a Shetland sweater and saying oooookay Mr. @dieworkwear.bsky.social.

To be clear, I am also wearing textured knits because he’s right they’re so great.
December 23, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Imagine writing all of these bangers and then growing up to be Ryan Adams and having Phoebe Bridgers write a diss track about how you recorded these songs when she was born. That’s the good stuff.
December 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM
December 19, 2024 at 6:41 PM
You: [say you don’t like Neil Young all that much.]

Me: Um, okay, Cowgirl in the Sand? Uhh, paging Dr. Stupid
December 18, 2024 at 4:24 AM