the most american thing I've ever read

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Paused MAD MEN while Ted Chaough’s partner was in the hospital and the HBO Max interstitial ad made it look like his dying wish was for a Whopper.

My mouse? Modest

Had to add my 2 cents to Dinergoth Discourse. This one Gets Personal. open.substack.com/pub/verydist...

Papa! I’m stunting on them, papa! It’s ever so based

"The case is a very funny illustration of what can happen when cops, who as a general rule rarely face consequences for their actions, manage to cross a person with plenty of time, a sizable social media following, and a smooth baritone."

this summer, i ran a newsletter series on PTA leading up to the release of OBAA. the contributors were are all so smart and made the project so much better than i hoped or deserved. if you’re looking for OBAA writing this morning, i think you’d like this review roundup:

Mayonaise Smashing Pumpkins 18M views My entire family died 5 minutes ago from cancer this reminds me of the times we had. 5 mins ago Godlike tone for a bald bitch. 2 weeks ago I was 2 years old when I first heard this now I am dead and in Heaven. 20 years ago Bald bitch. 7 years ago

helpful thing when navigating discourse on here is knowing that when a leftist says "liberals" will do some heinous act, theyre actually talking about a specific person they dislike. when liberals say a "leftists" will do some heinous act, they are also talking about a specific person they dislike.

Who up unleashing they chiang

They said AI couldn't create actual art with actual humor but damn if this isn't the funniest shit I've ever seen

Idk, I've never liked Rubio in the past, but if he's a fan of science fiction luminary Ted Chiang, he can't be all that bad!

RIP to a real one

Living in West Michigan be like

Forget the peace prize--Trump deserves the Nobel prize for literature, for the way he has destroyed & remade the English language in his own terrible image

Oh man, Silverblatt was a tremendous interviewer. RIP Seriously, think of your favorite author, go search the Bookworm archives, and guaranteed Silverblatt elicited the most illuminating interview you've ever heard.

Bl@ck Ph1lip dropping his new mixtape, "Delicious Life Vol. 4: SANDWITCHES"

wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

My "Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers" teeshirt is raising a lot of questions, but mostly just "where can I also get a teeshirt like that, that's dope"

Well my name's John Keats and I'm here to say / that Beauty is Truth, in a major way

ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection. GOD: Say less.

The Text Man breaks his silence

Señor Bad Bunny,,,,,, thank you for standing up for heterosexual marriage

Nice heights. Are they wuthering?

You know who’s NOT in the Epstein files?

a special place in hell? all for myself? 🥹

When you lose Shinedown, you've truly lost America

My campaign ad in 2028: You will see these criminals placed in stocks in the town square and you can throw up to three (3) tomatoes in their faces

Ah yes, Coleman Hughes, the Thomas ChatGPT Williams of commentators

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

Oh no, plz don't drag Miller down with you Kristi, nooooo

At The Drive In, “In/Bovino/Out” I’m so sorry

my magnum opus on woke 2 has arrived!!! (magnum wokus?) thank you to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social for providing your thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

'Neither of them had imagined doing what they were doing now. “I’m supposed to be creeping around in the woods looking at insects,” Green Bean said.'

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Keep that boot on their throat bsky.app/profile/msai...

Bovino's ugly mug is Ultros from FF6 obviously

They're gonna call it Stancilgrad

BREAKING: Bovino to fight his demotion, has filed a grievance with his union rep at The Lollipop Guild

Sure, I guess we'll never know how the founders would have felt about LGBTQ rights or double jeopardy or whatever but you know what we do know? How they felt about a tyrannical government's roving militias gunning down people in broad daylight.

(this very tension, b/w fight and aid, is what OBAA is about btw)

I suppose in the future what's happening now may become known as "The Battle of Minneapolis," but I think--hope--it's historic precisely because it's not that. Fascism wants a fight. Instead, Minneapolis's main response is mutual aid. Struggle, in a deeper sense of the term than fascism can imagine.

Yesterday a reporter asked me for comment about Minneapolis’ opposition to ICE. I got kind of worked up and sent way more than I should have. The piece is great—it’s in my prior post. But I wanted post my comments in full here:

In support of today’s ICE Out General Strike in Minnesota, I will not be participating in CBS News’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil.

I copped 3 books I've been meaning to read! Uncertain Sons Ghost Sequences Helpmeet Be like me and take advantage!

foolish millennials. you have committed the crucial error of being older than 30. we will not make the same mistake