Powerage. @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/talia-gibson...

Long car ride, flipping through an old Town & Country of my dad’s, and I spot 2 friends of the show in their “New Creative Class” feature! @girinathan.bsky.social & @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social Who knew Good Game with Sarah Spain and Town & Country were so culturally aligned. Off to by a Rollie.

“Sometimes I compile a wish list at the start of the tennis season. I forgot to do it this year, but if I had, at the top would have been a Daniil Medvedev resurgence.” Preview of what will presumably be a chapter in @girinathan.bsky.social’s next book www.thesecondserve.com/peak-dannil-...

the phrase MIDDLEMARCH MADNESS popped into my head awhile back and I knew I’d have to do something with it

grateful for this review of CHANGEOVER in @nybooks.com. we are "alive and well" ! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

i'm in the dictionary under "allegory"?? as a child you hope for "handsome" or "sweet-smelling" but i'll take it. maybe it means something larger

I can’t get enough of the kaiju battle between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina: defector.com/kaiju-battle...

A loud return for Jack Draper via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/jack-draper-...

a jarring sight to behold: a teenager, who is frankly kind of slow, and getting dragged out wide into the doubles alley, simply blasts a forehand so hard that it damages the No. 2 player in the world

Joao Fonseca takes Jannik Sinner to the limit, and justifies the hype: defector.com/joao-fonseca...

this story about preserving rap history, dense with quotes from great critics and archivists, is one of my favorite things we've run recently defector.com/lost-recipes

kobestani radicalism in the paper of record <<<<<

ATTN australian tennis fans who might have a solution here

A backhanded compliment for Lilli Tagger, via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/lilli-tagger...

interviewed someone about what it's like to live in a building owned by a two-time MVP and also not have heat in the aftermath of a blizzard defector.com/an-interview...

if i turn on a tennis channel stream, any stream, within a few minutes the audio is lagging ~an entire point behind the video, which, it turns out, is pretty challenging

they should allow lu dort and kat to whack each other in the face for 48 minutes in a separate room from the basketball game

absolutely

it was also the funniest surprise to see our site turn up in a novel?? the “one from Defector” sounds extremely beautiful and smart, as well as kind…

a new WNBA romance novel got me thinking about how romance fandom and WNBA fandom can both feel like expressions of optimism: defector.com/how-can-you-...

they said I didn’t have the Cholesterol to be out here…. And they were correct, I will be starting a course of statins presently

peak beer label design

great day to blast 'diamond jubilee,' brew a big pot of lapsang, and periodically suplex an infant

Always exciting to see @girinathan.bsky.social’s book out in the wild. Shout out to @peoplesbooktakoma.com for having great taste

Man, you better shut your fu*k up, ok? via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/tbd-meddy-an...

i'm being told i've already exhausted our 2026 quota of ledes mentioning Dave McKenna

family life has both complicated and relieved me of my fandoms. its crazy how much more i like my daughter than Karl-anthony

got it!

we are way too far into the mainstreaming of vegan food for restaurants to still be salting food to ocean brine levels. you have other tools!

does this resonate with anyone else’s Victoria Mboko Experience

by the end of this weekend my phone had learned "cablp" without autocorrecting it. please enjoy my trip report: defector.com/criss-angel-...

this is pretty much where i stand

this week the world learned about his french-inflected pronunciation of "saliva"

i dont see why we have to conflate "these ai companies suck" with "their technologies are uninteresting" and "philosophy of mind is stupid"

recently was playing various punk subgenres for my 7yo nephew but he kept saying it needed to go harder because he has already "listened to some darnly intense music" and the band he finally decided was hard enough was converge

I wrote some thoughts on the Benito show! defector.com/bad-bunny-ce...

Read @girinathan.bsky.social on French phenom Moise Kouame. www.thesecondserve.com/moise-kouame...

Lovely interview by @girinathan.bsky.social in @defector.com with Jose Alvarado's hgh school and AAU coach: defector.com/jose-alvarad...

I have always found this construction incredibly corny but yes, we, as a human race, ”do not deserve” Benito. tasteless piggies hurtling toward a world of pure slop, how is the ~biggest pop star alive still a talented, idiosyncratic, humane, stylish person

what's the best way to turn text on a webpage (might contain photos or design elements) into a nicely formatted pdf "Print => Save as pdf" way too crude a tool

briefly entered Dave McKenna mode defector.com/jose-alvarad...

this is a lovely newsletter for all the tennis sickos out there

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

it is wild how few reliable methods there are for a normal person to learn information about the world, and also how many people want the one method left standing to be gambling lines for possible states of the world

22 years old defector.com/carlos-alcar...

people often ask me my theories about this crop of indian people in politics but i don't actually know any. kash patel is italian-american. vivek ramaswamy is as well, this is known. usha vance was born to italian immigrants to the united states

I suspect we are hurtling towards the UNCHANGEOVER: An Old Man & An Ongoing Era of Men’s Tennis

Here's a thread of some Dan McQuade blogs that we really loved 🦅 The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is playing fast and loose with famous quotes: defector.com/the-garden-s...