🎵Take the money and run🎵

Summers/Epstein + Nuzzi/RFK/Lizza has done more than anything else to help me understand why elites have capitulated to fascism while normal ppl haven't. After decades of hot air from elites/their institutions about freedom, democracy, equality etc, they reveal they have no beliefs or morals at all

Thankful for all of the writers, translators, and readers who still believe in the possibilities of literature. Here is the SCHATTENFROH balloon from the Macy’s parade this morning. Slightly smaller than the real book, but what can you do?

I have a lot of new long, immersive reads ahead this holiday season, but I do also plan to revisit three favorites I haven't read in some time, which I highly recommend: THE KILLS by RICHARD HOUSE (terribly underrated), Roberto Bolano's 2666, and Thomas Pynchon's V.

Still believe that I am the bald boy who can fix her

thinking of her today

He is risen

Ugh, the new Lizza piece is infuriating! RFK dropping a dead bear in Central Park is not ‘Lynchian’—it’s Coenesque! Guess journalism really is dead!!!

me most of the time: weber thesis kinda bullshit me after spending five minutes among west Michigan Dutch Calvinists: max weber UNDEFEATED

Believe novelists.

Ugh, the new Lizza piece is infuriating! RFK dropping a dead bear in Central Park is not ‘Lynchian’—it’s Coenesque! Guess journalism really is dead!!!

Well thank goodness! Love when an author lets a novel cook a nice long while. Let the legend build.

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

Wendell Wilkie ascending to the heavens…Eugene Debs leading an army of corn farmers to storm Lucas Oil Stadium…Bill Monroe plucking his mandolin to summon a kraken from the Wabash River…

Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.

really can't recommend strongly enough treating yourself by pausing your life and reading "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog"

Will the AI bubble hurry up and pop already, I need the Hulu miniseries right quick

90s rapper voice: the bullet theoretical

Burl Ives is short for Burlington Coat Factory Ives

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

Another great article on the excellent, unusual casting of The Chair Company.

Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.

It's so funny watching Stavros make the leap she can't

I give this six weeks until Chatbot Jesus starts exhorting the faithful to overthrow the Demiurge and we have Gnosticism 2.0

Continuing my rewatch of Twin Peaks: The Return! This episode is near and dear to my heart, as it's about a blogger who can't stop crying. Representation matters! open.substack.com/pub/verydist...

whatever happens at the back of the fridge, especially on the middle shelf, is frankly none of my business

It’s called an Em dash bc it was invented by Emily Dickinson

The Conjuring The Conjuring 2 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It The Conjuring: Last Rites

Continuing my RETVRN to Twin Peaks: The Return! Tried to do the mighty episode 8 justice open.substack.com/pub/verydist...

Secretly leaving Chick tracts in the aisles of Spencer’s Gifts

The only surgeon general I recognize

Visually, Blade Runner 2049 blows it out of the water. But beneath the surface of Freddy Got Fingered lies an authenticity not even the Tyrell Corporation can replicate

vince gilligan shaved his moustache and i can tell you right now it would take me like ten years to figure out clark kent is superman. who the fuck is that

Oh it just clicked for me: Kash Patel is a Tim Robinson character

Great article about the unusual casting of The Chair Company and one of the funniest bit roles in it. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

I’m gonna be keeping an eye for how the evangelicals of Venezuela will be talked about by the evangelicals of the US

Repost: some off-Broadway shows - two extraordinary ones still up for a while (Oratorio for Living Things and Nothing Can Keep You from the Hand of God), and a few others - prove you can take the kid out of the church but you can't take the church music out of the kid www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/t...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Can I tell you about someone else whose followers included adult content creators

Excellent Chris Lehmann piece in @thebaffler.com on how current American fiction's blind spots when it comes to the MAGA mind: thebaffler.com/salvos/ameri...

Spiritually I am still here, and always will be

Guess I won’t see you at the pole

Repubs in disarray…more and more people are saying it

“You mousepad” is the most devastating insult I’ve ever heard in my life

This is indistinguishable from Weird Catholic Twitter circa 2017

oops here is the gift link