It almost feels like being back at my Midwest liberal arts college

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

This truly warms my alt weekly-loving heart

watching the simpsons on a crt in a dark room at night just feels so right

I beg people to develop media literacy, tho I don’t expect the White House to get near basic literacy anytime soon

Am I the only person alive disappointed in the lack of tacky headlines on this story? Bonjour les Enfants! FYI: Nepo babies are en vogue!

Preview of the announcement:

The summer wind came blowing in from across the sea

It truly is wild that this Tylenol case is taught at every single business school as an example of what to do if consumer safety is at risk and yet it’s exactly the opposite of how corporations act now.

I am once again remembering how I saw someone recording Elliott Smith’s October 2022 show at the 400 Bar in Minneapolis. A recording of that show is out there and I want to get my hands on a copy! I doubt this post will help turn it up but maybe…

90 Minutes of James Dobson Burning In Hell (2025)

james dobson is dead and cannot wish anything but eternal pain on that mother fucker. that guy destroyed so many lives

Okay men, it's time to clean up this town! Meaning what, exactly? You know, push people around, make ourselves feel big

If there’s a way to make pasta with broccoli not feel like a version of a casserole, I’d love to see it

Novelty/single-use kitchen tools are, with some rare exceptions, a scam

2,123 people have been arrested by ICE in the S.F. area since January 20, 2025. By cross-referencing three datasets released this month, on ICE arrests, detentions and deportations, Mission Local was able to follow the journeys of those arrested: missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-...

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Honoring Ozzy with a pathetically clumsy attempt at playing the Iron Man riff at Guitar Center

even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"

FWIW, the 2009 Hoagiefest ad campaign was 🤌

Writing in a notebook and listening to the Mishima soundtrack. I’m apparently realizing my arc of becoming a Paul Schrader character.

www.wsj.com/business/aut... "Auto suppliers have begun to speak up. Guo Chuan, chairman of KH Automotive Technologies, last month penned an open letter titled “I Have a Dream.” Love to commodify historical fights against white supremacy in an attempt to make your company more profitable!

"Welcome, soft idiot. You've been issued a Human Body™, the most fragile, overpromised, poorly updated model in the known universe. It arrives preloaded with ten to fourteen irrational fears, a vague longing for something you can't name, and knees made of soup."

BREAKING: ICE agents clashed w/protesters outside San Francisco's immigration courthouse this morning. At one point, an ICE SUV drove through protesters trying to stop an immigration arrest. A woman, holding onto its hood, was thrown off. missionlocal.org/2025/07/vide...

There’s not exactly a box for the British Empire had some really long and horrific tentacles

IDK man…$100M salary kinda feels like a bubble to me

Started using WeCroak again to use the Bhutanese technique of thinking about death 5x/day to cultivate happiness. But this morning’s quote was a little too on the nose. Happy Monday everyone!

@chairness and I lost Darjeeling earlier this month, 17 years after I took her home in a picnic basket from a South Philly taqueria. She was a constant companion who tolerated so many moves and life changes. Her absence is deeply palpable.

As the youngest in my family and someone who had to read the Four Questions for so many years, I truly appreciate people riffing on that - asking why this moment is different and less heavy takes.

"Hell is here, in Boston, in the way a woman’s voice goes unnaturally high as she strangles a shriek when surrounded by six masked people in plainclothes who claim to be police. Hell inhabits the place in your heart where you feel her fear."

Only Tracy Jordan can explain what markets will be like tomorrow

This man once staged a produce demo of a truck by rolling it down a hill and saying it worked. Grifting is now legal.