This is the first occurrence I could find of the word "cheeseburger" in an American newspaper.

Epstein was The Most Interesting Man in the World to these guys. It’s clear from these emails and the birthday book. It’s also clear from the last few years that the key to becoming a billionaire or political power player is often just acting like a selfish 22-year-old your entire adult life.

Well well well… looks like my ship has come in

Imagine getting old and writing your “the scene is dead” piece and this is the scene www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...

Every headline says the Vatican returned these objects in past tense, but the article says they’re still in Rome? Also, “the cost of repatriating the items has been prepaid by the tribes”?? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Me: Sometimes I think we spend too much time as a culture on the TV comedy wars of the 90s The New Yorker: The American public choosing Lawrence Welk over Sid Caesar is, was, and will ever be a travesty www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Well yeah, who wants a ship that’s going to cut revenue?

I don’t really get why RFK Jr. using psychedelics is such a revelation? He seems like the kind of person who would still be using psychedelics and even more the kind of person who would talk about psychedelics?

Does Peacock have other shows? www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

Never have I been so relieved not to see the word “enshittification” in a post

Am I the only person who instinctively pronounces “Letterboxd” as “Letterbox Dee” like it’s an old Unix daemon?

An interesting look inside the growing conflict and corporatization of the Ghost Tour Industry by @smelendez.bsky.social, with clear implications for New Orleans and a cameo from the LaLaurie Mansion. www.fastcompany.com/91429824/gho...

Me when children playing catch in the laundromat hit me with their ball: Don’t worry, I’ll be out of your way in a second! Me when adults watch videos there without headphones: There should be a brig in the back to lock you in until you’re ready to behave (or your clothes are done)

Journalist Steven Melendez writes a terrific article in the Chicago's Newcity Magazine about the historic corruption in the Weights and Measures bureaucracy. Glad to see my old work on the "Honest Weight" progressive movement revived. www.newcity.com/2025/11/05/t...

I wrote about Joe Grein, a crusading 1930s Chicago inspector of weights and measures who cracked down on rigged store scales and measuring cups, which had been used has part of a scheme to funnel money to allies of Al Capone and corrupt mayor Big Bill Thompson www.newcity.com/2025/11/05/t...

Casio Toy for the Painfully Alone

This might cost me a lot of followers, but our parents did not spend the best ears of their lives following Paul Revere and the Raiders only for us to have to listen to a Redcoat bass player

Whoops! Everyone in Velvet Underground tribute band named after Mo Tucker is a man who imagines himself as Lou Reed.

Them: Can you submit a short bio for the website Me:

Interesting but seems hard to know which way causation goes. Teens who aren’t using social media might be offline because of a problem in their lives (hypercontrolling parents, severe bullying/stalking that drove them offline, poverty, mental or physical health issues, etc.)

I wrote about how the internet has enabled the rise of national ghost tour chains, leading to accusations of plagiarism, trademark infringement, and labor violations in an industry that was previously the domain of local history buffs www.fastcompany.com/91429824/gho...

I wrote about how the internet has enabled the rise of national ghost tour chains, leading to accusations of plagiarism, trademark infringement, and labor violations in an industry that was previously the domain of local history buffs www.fastcompany.com/91429824/gho...

Humble brag

Welcome to the machine. It’s alright, we know where you’ve bean.

The Oxford American is now accepting pitches for our upcoming Spring 2026 Food Issue. We’re looking for stories that explore how food preserves a legacy, crosses borders, and creates connection. Learn more and submit your work by November 15 at oxfordamerican.org/submissions.

When told I can’t buy a thrill

Asparagus Capital

According to American popular music there are two theologically sound reasons to ask St. Peter to delay your entry into heaven: * need to smoke, smoke, smoke a final cigarette * insurmountable debt at the coal company store

"When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice."

That’s what they say now but wait till 8,000 years pass and you’re in a museum

we need better minced oaths for the internet age. I'm sorry, but f*ck and sh*t just make you look like you got cold feet when you caught your teacher looking over your shoulder in the computer lab.

left a hideous little malformed cub in the bookstore at o’hare

Brigham Young upon seeing the Great Salt Lake:

London outpost of “The Big Easy” where the speciality is lobster and prosecco. Now that’s Nat’rlly N’awlins, dawlin’

Art cops? Conceptualism? Is it time to replay Disco Elysium? www.nola.com/entertainmen...

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

Has anyone really thought of Johnny Cash as uncool within the past 25 years? www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I don’t really get the latter interpretation. How would anyone practically endorse past and future posts by accounts they follow, unless they only follow a handful of very trusted friends and maybe single-issue political posters?

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Why do I want this maritime law merch so badly obryanlaw.net/swag-order-f...

Old school listings are making a comeback. @smelendez.bsky.social reported on why. studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

Walgreens: Great news, the great clown Pagliacci is in town

And yet I can’t think really of any rich bigoted businessman being shunned like that, and we’ve had many

I mean, NOT YET ☠️

Something uniquely dystopian about sports betting is that we’ve basically only legalized it when it involves one of a handful of megacorporations. Potentially more social and less harmful alternatives, like low-dollar bets on a game at a local sports bar or at a charity event, are still illegal.

"Whether examining the subculture of gay bears or the deadly consequences of anthropomorphizing animals, Horowitz charts the complexities and depth of American culture’s unique and enduring relationship with bears." www.dukeupress.edu/bear-with-me

I wrote about the history of the jukebox for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

Clearly not the important question but why is this list in alphabetical order by first name?