the struggle itself to shoot a man dead is enough to fill a man's heart. one must imagine Raylan Givens justified

i hear in this next one care blanched plays a brilliant but arrogant professional whose arresting beauty helped shape her rise to a position of prominence

one last promotional push for my Alien: Earth newsletter—above all else, it's an interesting show that needs to be talked about to be appreciated

okay folks, here we go with the definitive Alien: Earth write up where we examine why Noah Hawley is bad at adapting other works and why that's mostly okay: goodones.beehiiv.com/p/bad-reader

ICYMI, I wrote about how modern tech/media has made it so you can engage with food without ever setting foot in a restaurant or cooking a meal, making food an object of fandom www.eater.com/food-culture...

hmmm apparently you can’t really order jock straps online because you think you’re buying an athletic supporter for post surgery recovery while in actuality you bought sexy fetish underwear for beautiful men

referring to my vasectomy as “baby proofing the house”

thank you for the sage advice, soft wheaten terrier book

okay got it. easy. fuck the calfskin wallet, kill the wasp crawling on my arm while i’m watching television, marry the tortoise laying on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without my help

dough was a little slack and needed to shape it tighter than the last bake

okay got it. easy. fuck the calfskin wallet, kill the wasp crawling on my arm while i’m watching television, marry the tortoise laying on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without my help

thank you for the sage advice, soft wheaten terrier book

guy in the shane gillis shirt didn’t like when ron funches said he was gonna kill joe rogan with jiu jitsu

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

was making plans to watch a movie today that i knew i wasn’t going to like so i could write about why it was bad and honestly what a waste of time

buddies

sungolds, basil, butter, cavatelli

I've got three short humor workshops starting in October! One's an advanced workshop on Wednesday afternoons... (3 spots left in this one!)

really excited that @wordloaf.org restocked these sourdough starter whisks and finally ordered one for myself

This is a great, interesting read about one of this years most challenging shows, ALIEN: EARTH.

Enjoyed this one after reading too many "not enough xeno!!!" takes

despite jesse having some Bad Opinions this is a good (free!) newsletter and you should subscribe

as an account with a fairly large following, i'm pretty juiceless on getting people to click through on links to my work. i think the anaylsis in this one is pretty spot on, so if you watched Alien: Earth, give it a read and repost if you like it!

Welcome to Friday. That means it's time to start thinking about pizza. Go read the deep dive I wrote about making a great pan pizza in your own kitchen using my pan pizza calculator. boundedbybuns.com/choose-your-...

Busy day today at HW. First up read an excerpt from the funny and moving new anthology Sex Change and the City (edited by @nikostratis.com + @tuck.bsky.social) featuring dozens of great LGBTQ+ writers on the classic HBO series. www.welcometohellworld.com/sex-change-a...

okay folks, here we go with the definitive Alien: Earth write up where we examine why Noah Hawley is bad at adapting other works and why that's mostly okay: goodones.beehiiv.com/p/bad-reader

ONE BATTLE: ha ha yeah man, that’s the stuff ANOTHER BATTLE, AFTER: now hang on just one minute

CHOTINER: So coyotes keep eating your outdoor cats? NEIGHBOR: Yes. CHOTINER: And you just have limitless cats? NEIGHBOR: No, I go to the shelter to replace them. CHOTINER: Sounds to me like you're just feeding cats to coyotes. NEIGHBOR: Well no I mean, now look my daughter is crying.

a lot of people are concerned online right now, and while i want to offer soothing words i have to echo their sentiment: clearly andre jackson jr. deserves the roster slot but doc rivers doesn’t know how to play him. we all have to prepare for the inevitability

"Hawley’s ALIEN might not fit well with the ALIEN canon, but it doesn’t necessarily have to in order to stay compelling and watchable." This is a good read from @jesseraub.bsky.social that gets into what Hawley seemingly does and doesn't care about when adapting ALIEN.

for Good Ones, my newsletter, i wrote about Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley’s whole thing, and being a bad reader goodones.beehiiv.com/p/bad-reader

another Good Ones added to the list: my breakdown of the modern narrative-deficient cinema trend goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-shit-h...

for my own newsletter, Good Ones, i wrote about viewing Fargo through the lens of a native Minnesotan and why the more is more bleak than people might have thought goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-near-d...

this is it: this is our modern history of eating distilled into one of the most poignant things i’ve ever read about food

in Madison, a journalist was fired when a story she wrote turned out to have multiple factual errors and AI-invented sources. turns out, the AI program she used was installed on her computer by the newspaper itself isthmus.com/news/news/wi...

utter shambles in a good way. @slaypussyhat.gay and i lost our dad to leukemia before the pandemic hit and randomly tonight stas decided to google his name just to see what would pop up. a 2016 news article about the meteoric rise of pokemon go appeared, and there in the comments section, my dad.

approaching a speed bump in my 2019 toyota rav-4 like it’s an f-zero dash zone

the other day we walked by a neighborhood party for small kids that was being scored by a live marimbist who was doing a marimba cover of coldplay’s yellow

vasectomy got me walking like

well this sucks. i got raptured and it’s just me and Will Patton. “i’m not actually a bad person in real life, i’m just bald,” he tells me. i dunno, man. sure.

hmmm, realizing i misspelled columbo on some old posts. probably won’t burn in hell for it. might, though

COLOMBO: just one more thing: i see you got DVDs on that shelf in there of a show called “Colombo” ME: well yes, of course. it’s a great detective show COLOMBO: this Colombo, he’s good? always get his guy ME, SCOFFING: he’s the *best* COLOMBO: mind if i come in? i fancy myself a detective

COLOMBO: now i gotta say—pardon me for budging in—but that's a nice killing rock over there on your mantle. you don't see killing rocks like that everyday, smooth end, sharp corners. good for a whack on the skull. where did you say you were last thursday, again? CAVEMAN: ooga booga

CHOTINER: And they just tell you everything? COLUMBO: Most confess, but I usually tease it out of them. CHOTINER: Wow, through vetted legal methods, too? COLUMBO: Well sometimes you gotta be flexible with this stuff. CHOTINER: Flexible with the law? COLUMBO: Hang on, just one more thing…

overall, vasectomy wasn’t too bad. maybe i’ll go back there and let them root around a little more. who knows; might find something cool

Hamburger Help Me

cold, salt and a meal

confidently taking the wheel of Sorcerer, the truck from Sorcerer, and immediately swerving right toward some bumpy tree roots while trying to adjust the radio