Egypt is returning my life force. If I had a bowl of koshari I would be throwing it in the air

C’est la CONCACAF

I keep thinking we’ve already seen the best game of the World Cup, and beers kept getting held so more can be thrown

there's gonna be weird people out there who's like blah blah sportsball w/e but like actually deep down sports is about community and I think that's neat

I genuinely pity people who have decided to not like sports for whatever in group norm they’re guided by and thus never get to experience such collective effervescence.

Cape Verde is the size of Kansas City. I promise you there’s hardly a person in that country that doesn’t personally know at least one player on that team. Can you imagine how proud they must be of them?

Argentina vs Cape Verde might be one of the single greatest sporting events I have ever witnessed

Extremely excited about USMNT win, but terrified what Romelu Lukaku (33) is going to do to the oldest man to ever play soccer Tim Ream’s (38) knees. We should probably replace them preemptively.

Doctor Congo, you deserved better. RIP to the best jersey of the World Cup.

I’m supposed to make 2 new books for the San Francisco art book fair while the knock out round is happening?!?

I love Germany and the Netherlands so much as countries but I’m also ELATED they are going home already. The World Cup does weird things to you…

I made it all the way the summer of 2026 without ever driving a Tesla, and friends let me tell you, I severely hope I never have to do that again…

Once on twitter I wrote that Hiss Golden Messenger could be my favorite band if it wasn’t for 30% of their songs, and even tho I didn’t tag him he found it and asked what 30% I hated, so incase he’s still out there reading: the new record is very good, and contains almost none of the songs I hate.

Flyers give you a ton of context about an event - what the tone and the values are. AI flyers say, nobody really cares about this, not even the people putting it on!!

In many ways the tech industry is a demonstration of the failure of the private market in building and managing vital public infrastructure.

Mixtape is far from a universal teenage experience, but it hits exactly the right nerve for me, tho in my opinion, it’s so much more than nostalgia bait and more so is about the propulsion of curiosity and really knowing and doing something, which is such an important story in our moment.

The Royals are so back you guys.

I just need to make sure all 142 of you who follow me know about the Aadam Jacobs collection of impeccable Chicago live music records of the last 35 years exists, because this is where I live now: archive.org/details/@aad...

I make this half joke a lot about how I might be bi but I’ve been married to my wife for 15 years so I’ll never know, but I will admit my excitement over the bisexual Kansas City Royals gear might be an indicator

My siblings in Christ, believe me when I say no breath is as life giving as the first deep breath of Bay Area air after time away.

I love Kansas City so deeply, so know I say this with affection and care, but the men here have some of the most curious wardrobe choices I have ever seen

this always comes back to "the work is the work". There is no part of the work that isn't important. this comes up in creative writing "what if you just use AI for the tedious stuff" it's all the work, and all of it is part of the whole. abdicate any of it, and you have garbage.

I’ve had baseball on in the background the entire day and feel my life force returning to me.

Intentionally wearing apparel supporting any current politician to the airport, where you will interact with countless TSA agents who are currently working without pay, is a choice

Look you guys there are a lot of bad things in the world right now, but the new Ratboys album is not one of them.

I’ve really been preaching this idea that everything is ephemeral, especially cultural institutions, but bottom of the hill is one place I imagined would exist forever. Such a bummer.

Spent the last day of the year at a hockey game. Won tacos. Pretty cool send off you guys.

(going manic) what if we BUILT TRAINS instead of FIXATING ON THE GENITALS???????

Is sky harbor actually the best airport in America, due entirely to the fact Cartel Coffee opens at 4:30am? Truly servants of the lord

A street fighter film featuring gay icon Orville Peck are words I never thought I would type

The thing about getting older isn’t that I look old all the time, but those mornings you wake up early and feel old, your capacity for looking old is too high

This semester was an absolute punch in the face, BUT ALSO, god damnit my students grew exponentially this semester and their final projects were so good…

This Saturday is the Small Press Book Bazaar at the one and only Lab! 12–7 p.m. Find a booky, papery, arty something for everyone on your gift list. Also come say hi to me at the Colpa Press table. 👋

I’m deep in the background working on this body of work for a show with a concept too big to put your arms around and worried it won’t be anything, but after the first test prints today, folks I think there’s something here…

Everything being a subscription model is terrible for the obvious reasons, but I think the worst part is the way companies keep their teams busy tweaking & “updating” their products, just making them more annoying to use, vs putting all that labor into focusing on the next version of the thing.

This graffiti has not left my brain for a full year now

there are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the Dodgers. actually understanding the assignment and paying players isn't one of them 🩷

Companies who silo decision making abilities on accounts for couples/families to only the “primary” account holder are responsible for maintaining the patriarchy (even tho in this specific case, for my relationship it is the matriarchy, but we’re a 21st century family thank you very much)

I’d like to start a book club, but by book club, I mean a group for me to discuss the sci-fi worlds built within very specific RPGs I have recently played, because they are the visions of the future that keep me thinking more than any other sci-fi media

I may have made my masterpiece of a playlist.

Our local fedex driver is blasting Fun’s We Are Young so loud I can hear it in my house, with headphones on, and ya know what? Good for him.

Impossible to relay the satisfaction of the first deep breath if Bay Area air after being away.

Just a casual reminder Chicago is the best city in the United States if America.

Just really thankful for sports and video games and pop music right now you guys.

I’m embarrassed to admit how much I’m enjoying the mighty mighty bosstones being played at this bar right now…

It’s genuinely a relief to learn I do in fact like Turnstile, it was actually the mix of the last record I found unlistenable

Normalize going to see your high school youth group friend’s drag show on a school night

I like this joke the printmaking and art book world pulled on me suggesting we’d all just be talking about books and art and hanging to get me back on to a microblogging platform and now I’m just lurking sports and video game content alone like my pre-2020 shadow…

Ah, I have returned home on the first day of 4th of July season it appears…

The new stereolab is really good you guys