"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.

Mario rn: youtu.be/k3ZeUL4fRyk?...

"There is no consciousness to discover here when you break down what is inside the machine that is A.I.—just formulas."

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Links to Over 20 Years of Online Fiction Publications

Explaining chips to an American,

"Every anecdote I hear about AI use shows that there is no 'integration' happening, there is simply substitution: for learning, teaching, and conversing."

Larry Levis

From this Texas breath exhaled, indeed

Obviously rooting for Napoleon Solo for Cedric Bixler-Zavala-related reasons.

It’s a perfect day for hardware store pit beef

Yeah, there it is

My YouTube algorithm is trained by this point to go no more than three videos after 10pm before serving up the Alice In Chains “Unplugged” set so, begrudgingly, I admit technology is pretty advanced after all.

"I, too, would rather be somewhere that no longer exists."

Today’s movie at Baltimore city jury duty. The “canon” is due for an update: letterboxd.com/talia_k/list...

Wegman’s blasting Jenny Lewis on the store PA because that’s mother.

Terrific author bio

“I’ve seen the future” Man, one of the all-timers.

Love this band, song, everything

[Jason Molinally] Listen,,,

Noticing

"This is a book you buy copies of for all your friends and demand they read it immediately."

Artscape is in like 2 weeks and I feel like you would have no idea without seeing the “no parking” signs downtown.

Totally backwards approach from this spammer

Man, still.

Matthew Henriksen

One of the absolute all-timers

First person in my bloodline to eat a work lunch of jerk chicken atop a bed of Thai basil fried rice

"'I’m going to handle my business,' he’d tell Winchester before heading off in search of a truck to collide with. Sometimes, when he came home, she would pick fragments of broken glass out of his hair."

The footlong special from Jerk Werks defies my own knowledge of United States customary units.

Pretty annoying that Archers of Loaf haven’t done a TinyDesk.

Said I can’t find nothing wrong with being friends cause / She lets me use the car

Larry Levis, “The Spirit Says, You Are Nothing”

Really not sure I’ll ever forgive the Ravens for not drafting Rousseau OR Bain when they were each available.

I mailed a copy of this book to the parents of one of my dearest friends, a pair of true New Orleans exemplars who I saw so much of in Lemann’s novel, and my friend’s mom wrote me back to say actually Lemann is her cousin. Life is a rich pageant. 🥰 (She’d never read the book and will now.)

That scene in True Detective S1 where McConaughey mows Woody’s lawn except it’s my lawn and I’m not mad, I’m elated. I hate mowing my lawn.

“Now, at over one thousand years old, the novel has new rivals but no real peer, nothing to unseat it as the most sensitive witness to our quick, crooked passage through the world, of what it has meant to be here at all, in Thomas's words, ‘together, erring.’”

Noah Kucij in the new @eldiagram.bsky.social: thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...

"My dad will die a few days later, while I am working on this story. This conversation about Cheddar Bay Biscuits will turn out to be one of our last."

Played myself. Ate a big breakfast before going downtown and drove past the pit beef stand, but wasn’t hungry because of aforementioned big breakfast.

This week’s @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls

I’ve been thinking this every time I get lunch lately.

"Read the book, not the summary. Write the piece, not the prompt. Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing."