I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Rewatched my beloved POINT BREAK for the 4th of July and realized it’s just (my also beloved) BASIC INSTINCT with surfing instead of sex, in which a himbo law enforcement agent with kamikaze eyes falls in lust with a beautiful blonde psychopath who takes him to the edge.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social occurred to me that the thing missing from my Fourth of July was a Wide Awake aloha shirt. Just putting it out there

For those of you still contemplating the magnificent and horror of this colossus the morning after the semiquincentennial:

If the Fourth of July is America’s time to shine, the Fifth of July is surely Los Angeles’s

People say that fireworks are hard on pets but if you have one scaredy cat and one non scaredy cat and it is dinner time on the Fourth of July, it’s a pretty sweet set up for that non scaredy cat

I think part of the reason the Trump hardos want to stand on the Mall in a rainstorm is that like a third of that cohort has been struck by lightning at least once and dug it. "Actually cured my diabetes," they hoot at but not quite to each other as the Black Rifle Coffee Pavillion erupts in flames.

Happy 102nd birthday to the Caesar Salad

anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer

If I could come back from the dead, I would come back for an apple, and just for the first bite, the first break, and the cold sweet grain against the roof of the mouth, as plain and clear as water.

it's never a *bad* day to read @kjhealy.co on the subject, but today might be a particularly good day

Currently going mad viral on TikTok

here's the song

here's a sweet remembrance of a song that was new to me

I agree with this in principle, but I also empathize with my first wife and her “no Frank Zappa in the house” rule

This set photo of Winona Ryder and Martin Scorsese on the set of The Age of Innocent looks like a still from a lost Hammer movie.

Everyone’s beating up on this guy, but for anyone to know whether he’s right or wrong, someone on this website would have to talk to a young person *no not your kids who you raised on Buster Keaton shorts

Since I'm awake & since it's been percolating in the back of my brain, Trump has wedged his pale, flabby, impotent dupa in a crack that we could think of as the Thunderchild conundrum. HG Wells recounts the tragedy of HMS Thunderchild in chapter 17 of The War of the Worlds. 1/

you've caroled your last king

Not everyone is going to like you. The important thing is to not like yourself

This is a great story for those of us who crave hilarity and pathos but can’t be arsed to look at Instagram reels

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

I've been an anti-occupation, co-resistance activist since the 1st intifada, in Israel/Palestine & back here. Wrote abt it, spoke at the Naval Academy, Chicago Humanities Festival, UChicago, consulted, advised, etc, etc. Pls know that the protests cracked the space open like nothing I've ever seen.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

I think Lander gave permission for right-on-Israel, left-on-everything-else voters to not rank Cuomo. But the result for Lander is a model for future candidates: he was a mensch, and he’s recognized and beloved for it, and he got rewarded. You don't need to be a backstabbing schemer to get ahead.

I feel especially great about Brad Lander's whole trajectory through the mayoral campaign to where things stand now. A real win for menschism.

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

Okay but he was really cooking here. This is a great way to think about the good life. Hitting at least 3 of the 9 delights makes for a great day.

Observed the hallowed bar mitzvah traditions today (sat in the back row of shul checking on the Knicks)

This global art/ decorative/ material culture history version of Geoguesser is really fun (and I am much worse at it than I feel like I should be): anthropeum.com

- Bass in a posh accent no one's ever heard, berating a staffer for "getting me crap seats to the footie" - Nithya out of focus but IDable in a RFK/Hegseth pull-up bro-fest (jeans/CRUNCH GYM top) - just the long-rumored Lauren Conrad sex tape dubbed over with the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assoc debate

Finding various lefty people in the humanities kinda annoying but not thinking it is worth burning down every free institution in the west to prevent such people emerging nor allying with the fascists in the process of doing as much? This is a superpower.

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

i think the dark chapter from american history that scooby doo is best suited to mention by name has got to be ruby ridge

Move over Hadestown

What does Pratt have on whom? Wrong answers only

Thrrrrread

oh, you're the tenth or later guest to arrive? we moved the party, not telling you where

RIP David Hockney. Can't think of two images that taught me more about looking at Southern California

This man has been actively fomenting race war in the midst of an outbreak of racist mob terror, which he's expressly characterized as support for a "far right agenda." He has to be stopped but the larger point is that this level of concentrated wealth is incompatible with human life.

imagine if the place in the park where you held birthday parties wasn't accessible via any actual paths, and all birthday party invitations had to include a direction like "it's at the charcoal pits hidden behind the soccer field bathrooms." That's what "link in first comment" means.

For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.

My posts have summoned a new Gregg Araki film into existence after a 12 year hiatus. I promise to do only good with these powers youtu.be/kjkTmTmC1iA?...

you mess with the bull you get the horns. you mess with the goat you get the woodwinds. the horse has the string section and the rabbit is on percussion

Here I go again on my phone

when I say you should click on this thread, I want you to hear it as "this is your summer 2026 reality TV addiction"

In 1968, Oregon Governor Tom McCall decided not to run for an open Senate seat. When asked whether he might do so in the future, he said that at age 54 this is probably his last shot, since he'll be 60 during the next election cycle and that's probably too old to run.