Terror couple eat Whopper

Saw a woman in a witch hat walking her dog. No other witch-related apparel. Happy October!

Health crank here is telling her friends to do lemon and vinegar to “increase alkalinity.” I don’t think pH works that way.

"He was a born magazine writer long past the day when being a magazine writer was something you could make much a name for yourself doing. If you are a Californian and care about literary journalism and hadn’t heard the name Kaleb Horton, well, that’s part of the whole sad story."

Kaleb Horton is gone? What terrible, awful news

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Most of what I read lately fits Veronica Geng’s fine phrase “the sound of anxiety being rationalized.” Maybe that’s the zeitgeist.

In 1995 at a part-time bookstore job a customer wanted to special order “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.” It was out of print. Customer: Out of print? But it’s such a good book. Me: It’s 1995, sir. C: But it’s a good— Me: NINETEEN. NINETY— My Boss: OK, let me handle this one.

Got jet lag and culture shock returning from Ireland.

There’s a surreal moment in Arturo Perez-Reverte’s gleefully metafictional mystery novel “El Problema Final” where the 1st-person narrator (a British/American actor) writes IN SPANISH that he wishes he knew some Spanish. Sadly the English translation coming out in February will lose the vertigo.

Seen in Dublin: city bus with the front electronic sign reading MERRY CHRISTMAS

Last year Betty Crocker shrank the size of their cake mixes. Decades of cake-mix-based recipes are now broken. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

Dublin breakfast is barely sub lethal

The Golden Age of Media

If you’re rich enough, it’s all esthetics.

I wonder what happened to all the Suicide Girls. Attorneys? Drywall contractors? Life coaches?

Just applied for a health care plan and it feels like I sat on a cactus.

The story about the President of the European Commission's plane being hit by GPS jamming while landing in Bulgaria is odd: No evidence of GPS issues via ADS-B; The flight did not circle for an hour as claimed; This region very rarely experiences GPS jamming. www.ft.com/content/3c33...

September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...

Some rich teens zipped by on fast expensive e-bikes being tuff! and I’m torn between “someone is gonna eat shit real hard” and “I wish I’d had that!

Stripped of context, these are horror movie sounds that the foley gal said "Yeah, too horrifying. Don't use these."

Oh, hey, happy George Herriman's birthday!

The teens are wearing Ed Hardy again.

I despise “STEM.” Screw the humanities. It’s all just vocational school now.

Lisa Alvarez publishes her first book, "Some Final Beauty" at the start of last year teaching at Irvine Valley College. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

My friends seem to be having terrible, terrible luck lately. Bringing me down tbh

I think a lot of people continue to operate in, theorize and conduct analysis about a world that no longer exists.

Just Released! This 60th anniversary set showcases lost recordings, archival photos & memory- unlocking ephemera with liner notes from the set’s producer, Alec Palao and me on the history of the old 5-4 and the revue’s whirlwind showcase here in LA just days before Watts lit up.

I’m going to be in Dublin Ireland for a week in September. Any advice?

There was a rabbit in my front yard today and yesterday. In decades here there has been no such front yard rabbit. What can it mean?

Mark Stewart + The Maffia - Liberty City [UK, Dub/Post-Punk] (1983) https://redd.it/9g9vnq https://youtu.be/QsTgN22rCLU

I think my laptop might be dead. 🫠

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th. (🎥 Doni Nikz)

Having an opinion on social media is like backing into traffic. Either nothing at all happens or there’s an unpleasant wreck.

Been reading so much Borges that I now must become Borges. This is impossible for many reasons. Therefore I will in Borgesian fashion declare that I have always been Borges.

"Are you wearing th—" "The Tecovas x Chili’s cowboy boots made from Chili’s booth leather? Yeah, I am."

`I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.' --- Umberto Eco,

Just so everyone is aware, as a promotion in 1984, Wendy's produced terrifying, photorealistic carboard masks of Clara Peller, aka the "Where's the Beef?" lady

It took 13 years of hard and thankless work, but our revolutionary forces have finally managed to produce the world's most hideous sofa.

Reading a whole book by a 21st century American journalist is hard when I’ve been reading older more disciplined writing. Cut out those adjectives! Stay on topic! Eschew snark!

esoteric Seussism has never been tried

I wrote about the new Google AI agent and about the xAI companions, but really I wrote about how we're destroying ourselves and each other. Read at the link below. www.leahreich.com/suffer-throu...

in an era full of astonishing articles this manages to stand out

Entertainment used to be so much more entertainment-y.

TIAL: "Managing Red Imported Fire Ants in Electrical Equipment and Utility Housings" specifically this section research.entomology.tamu.edu/wp-content/u...

Too doomed out to post much of anything but trivia

“They have no program. Nothing to offer but their ASS. And not even that.” #overheard

Those delightful micro-fics Conan Doyle will drop into Holmes stories: “A third case worthy of note is that of Isadora Persano, the well-known journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science.”

O hard times come again no more