perfect, game 120% completed youtu.be/OyRc62RU5-A?...

Missy's sex raps are underappreciated. she wrote some recipes

the only upside to drake albums now is reading my fave critics "Drake inhabits the same screenland he is criticizing, a world of juked stats, behind-the scenes-manipulations and simulated inducements, which all now feel like a microcosm of our entire social reality." www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...

the streets could really use more reviews of that new irreversible entanglements

this week in conspiracy theories grist.org/health/as-ti...

the one scientific fact I wish I could unlearn is that cutting the visible mold off a piece of food does not make it safe to eat

I reviewed JWords' Sound Therapy: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

DC, I'll be talking with Ben Fountain about his new novel Rasputin Swims the Potomac next month: politics-prose.com/ben-fountain...

i'm increasingly convinced roasting is a life skill

gonna tell my grandchildren this was run the jewels

jpeg sampling the saul williams x trent reznor record is a cool little feedback loop

pretty dang wild that a major political party's core position is "actually, the civil rights movement was racist"

OOF www.propublica.org/article/more...

honestly this is Ted Turner's second death, because Percival Everett torched that man in I Am Not Sidney Poitier

I wrote about Justin Bieber and Coachella or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Modern-Day Surveillance State. www.powmag.net/p/justin-bie...

I wrote about Boldy James for Still Alive's Resurrection issue: dirt.fyi/article/2026...

This is an amazing profile of one of my favorite artists. I love Boldy so much.

I wrote about Boldy James for Still Alive's Resurrection issue: dirt.fyi/article/2026...

partisan redistricting is so obviously a monkey's paw

impressive how increasingly ridiculous this gets thebaffler.com/stories/marg...

I reviewed the new Sexyy Red pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

a nourished by time skate night would go very hard

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

TIL that fricassee is a real word and not just a Cam'ronism www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...

this is a nice collection of moving and sober essays about writing and money: thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

on one hand "circling back" is irradiated in the eldritch horrors of business-speak, but on the other hand, great phrase: two words, three syllables, visual, circles are pretty neat, and it's true, like aragorn, like saturn, i've returned to this email

uno, dos, cups stuffed

went long on the new Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Sideshow albums in relation to how they subvert hip-hop's chosen one motif--while still outrapping the competition--for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social www.hearingthings.co/earl-sweatsh...

while in amsterdam my wife and I bought some stroopwaffels to take home and some "emergency stroopwaffels" to store in the pantry and forget about until needed we've been back 3 days and have already breached the emergency pack

quarterly reminder that LIQUID SNAKES is a novel you should check out. it contains baseball, pourover coffee, Keurig coffee, Atlanta, and a snake named Amelia. softskull.com/books/liquid...

I really appreciate losing recipes as a phrase because I have literally lost recipes and upset my wife after cooking some bullshit

nice www.npr.org/2026/04/09/n...

man wut apnews.com/article/news...

gonna think about that awful "truth social" post every time a goober says social media is not real

I hate when a book reviewer writes about a book like they've never read a book before

bewildering to me how deeply "mumble rap" as a slur has penetrated the lexicon

damn, fresh stroopwaffel is otherworldly

exactly. these are just skills at the end of the day

annoys me how strongly people believe in (and reinforce) the false stem/liberal arts binary. I've seen plenty of engineers fuck up some math and writers struggle with grammar

great insights here and a great reminder to watch Bugonia, which is essentially about this www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Meet the voracious food mappers trying to make it easier to find Pa.’s best eats https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03/hot-dogs-fish-fries-best-philadelphia-foods-maps-lent-guide-pennsylvania-local/

the chainsaw man ending is brilliant. salute to fujimoto, a true original

I reviewed the new ELUCID pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

straight heat youtu.be/amxXGtbaa38?...

jlin was truly painting on air on black origami

van leeuwen's crimes against gelato must be stopped

spoke w GENA, the duo consisting of Liv.e and Karriem Riggins about love, the healing power of Martin, and the art of going outside for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social. And yes, the pleasure was mine

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing 2) lol

the wayback machine was definitely a mcdonald's ice cream machine in a past life