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Had to be done

The other day I told my daughter that “you should always leave them wanting more,” in terms of how long you hang around people, and in the time since she’s taken to telling me half of a joke and then just leaving the room before giving the punchline. Real monkey’s paw situation but I respect it.

Downtown Baltimore is set in the Sicario universe today 🔥💨

Yes. Yes I am the target audience for @beyondvideo.bsky.social’s “Preddy Woman” shirt, and here are this week’s rentals.

The Ruxton Graul’s has played back-to-back since I got here “Wish You Were Here” and “Pardon Me” by Incubus. 🫡

Countries where I’ve honeymooned: 1 France: 0

One solitary US dollar for a bag of Old Bay Goldfish. Maryland bounty.

Nobody has ever had a thicker head of hair than Treat Williams in PRINCE OF THE CITY (1981).

How I’ll end every business or personal phone call from now on

That’s right

"Once you notice a ChatGPT flyer, you will see them everywhere if you keep your eyes open."

"Getting to grips with a Prynne poem is more like falling down a Wikipedia hole than like doing sudoku. We’re used to hearing about textual indeterminacy, the free play of the signifier: Prynne makes you reckon with how it would actually feel if language were at large."

"He tried to impress her by breaking into her car ('I can open up any lock in seconds') and leaving flowers and a CD, by System of a Down, on her steering wheel. They got married in the autumn of 2007."

Top-3 part of the summer

“Make Jesus, for promotional purposes, go on HOT ONES.”

Costco the day before July 4th

Evening plans

I believe that using car A/C is a moral failing, and that a forearm tanned to the brink of sunburn or worse—and seatbelt sash of sweat across my chest—is honorable. I believe if you aren’t driving far enough to roll the windows down then you shouldn’t drive. Yes I was raised Catholic why do you ask?

Shout out to super fan @airbudddwyer.bsky.social

Science has gone too far.

NYRB sale into Fitzcarraldo sale into B&N Criterion sale is a CIA plot to drain me and @apdirtybird.bsky.social of our retirement savings.

LEAVE HER ALONE

Ratboys at Ottobar last night

This entire Brandon Sorsby saga is exhibit Z in @apdirtybird.bsky.social’s ongoing thesis, “Billable Hours Are Undefeated.”

"I couldn't exactly tell you what it was, other than that when you watch the tape, you're like, 'Oh, this person [Katie O'Flynn] definitely grew up on a haunted island.'"

"Using Claude to write your teaching materials, exams, and/or problem sets; to respond to student emails; for grading; or in basically any way that interfaces with students ... is the equivalent of rolling the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile into a Michelin-starred restaurant and charging the same price."

Father’s Day @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls

Tough decision at Ovenbird today. Went with a za’atar bagel, a sourdough loaf and a slice of cheesecake.

Just stopped at Newark, Delaware. Almost back to the promised land of Baltimore.

Never doubt the power of papaya

Knicks in Five

You gotta do the Henry Rollins thing where you wrap the cord around your hand a few times

When me and both of my neighbors mow our lawn on the same weekend so they’re all neat at the same time

Does anyone on here who runs a lot have a pair of wired headphones that they love? I’m looking for recommendations. I run with an ancient iPod and so they have to be wired, not Bluetooth.

Judging by the (lack of) discourse, I alone have read the Jonathan Franzen story in the latest New Yorker and have judged it “fine.” I personally would not have repeated the “so she became…” line like it was special but I also did not write THE CORRECTIONS.

"An old girl friend of mine showed up the other day That girl have lived in love and for love And over love, and under love all her life If the arrows from Cupid's bow that had Passed through her heart had been sticking Out of her body she would have looked like A porcupine"

"Any world in which there is only one literary voice, blanketing everything in the exact same tone, is a nightmare." samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let...

Helllllll yes youtu.be/wLDf6DosOzY

Wow

Everyone in Baltimore is here at the Future Islands show on the world’s most beautiful night

Scrambling my brain that Artie, the strongest man… in the world, is also the priest in Widow’s Bay. And also the carnival barker in Carnivale.

Once in a while I look at the Notes app where I jot down thoughts I have in the middle of the night

What’s your Baltimore bona fide? Mine is being spotted eating a beef sandwich in this review before getting my wife’s MVA emissions check done down the street.

In Baltimore there are two Reisterstown Roads (IYKYK) and nothing lays that reality more bare than tonight’s double feature at PIKES diner.