Shayne Gostisbehere, now there's a name.

My favorite post-hipster piece of art is Jeff Rosenstock's WORRY. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TrG...

The post-hipster novel is concerned with a bunch of things (social media addiction, trying to recapture your 20s, deciding whether to have kids, quest for meaningful work, hypocricy) that I clearly enjoy reading about on some level but have an extremely hard time getting emotionally invested in.

I will not complain about those idiotic "new york or nowhere" hats for twenty four hours.

Hey took my kid to a local park for a random watch party which I was frankly grumpy about but turns out my entire neighborhood and all his friends were there and we watched it together so I guess I can be happy for my adoptive city for an evening.

Just once in my life I'd like to have a problem that isn't my fault.

Would be cool if each president actually did add their name to The Kennedy Center till the entrance had dozens of names like the Stanley Cup.

Everyone knows about Syreeta, right? (I didn't until two days ago, to my shame.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEtn...

Gave blood in a synagogue basement and the nurse messing with my needle couldn't stop singing "to the window to the wall till the sweat dripped down my" and she stopped right there like four times, just a quick update from me.

new bio

Good word alert.

Tbh I nailed the assignment.

I'm trying to make sense of it, this Quanta piece from a few years ago is helpful for the "unfolding the billiard path" piece: www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterio...

The Doctor splits into two selves while regenerating, the two Doctors then spend several seasons trying to catch and kill the other.

Books like Daniel Kraus' WHALEFALL and ANGEL DOWN, Dan Chaon's ONE OF US, even BUTCHER OF NAZARETH feel like adult versions of the first books I fell in love with as a teen, bighearted thrillers, sci-fi, and horror, I just want more and more of these things.

An "I Am Legend" Who: we immerse ourselves in Dalek society, understand them as sympathetic, survivors of a genocidal war, permanently disabled & reliant on technology to live, but cultured, sensitive creatures: and the Doctor as a bogeyman predator lurking in the darkness ready to strike.

8yo has last day of school today, so I’m preparing these for summer activities.

In college I took a really brief summer class at CMU with Avigad! This was like 2008 and seemingly everybody in the philosophy camp was really into formalizing stuff in Lean. It was Dork City, a lovely experience, and funny to me that this stuff is now so important.

My school year is wrapping up fast, so I had time for a slower breakfast, so I reread this breathtaking (troubling? beautiful?) John Jeremiah Sullivan essay about Michael Jackson--"Michael chose his true face. What is, is natural." www.gq.com/story/michae...

and @mburnsmath.bsky.social MATH FOR SMARTYPANTS is a great resource for curious kids www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/maril...

This one is a street date instant onion classic. I have been laughing at “I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children” since I got the print edition last week

Pretty wild how over the course of a decade parenting goes from a physical endurance sport into a daily emotional decathlon.

Yeah this looks awesome.

A fun one on Short Story, Long today! I sent the team of readers a handful of questions to get something of a peek into their thoughts, reflections, likes, dislikes, surprises, etc. from reading submissions. Excited to share it! Hope some of y'all find it fun and interesting, too.

Digging into ANGEL DOWN and I don't think the fact that it's written as one sentence matters as much as that it's written in one-sentence paragraphs. If you're starting every paragraph with "and" that's basically a new sentence anyway.

I truly believe that if you want to write AND submit creative writing, you should make a point to read for a lit mag. It is illuminating, sometimes reassuring, sometimes damning. To get to do this alongside Burch, a lit mag vet, must be such a special experience. So thankful for these readers!

I have two new tiny wrestling poems in @onefallreview.bsky.social here’s one of them

Really fun (needless to say also bloody and brutal) read! Not as wild as I thought at first, though still pretty insane, it’s essentially a very bloody New Testament midrash. It’s interested in how grief can transform a person.

School year is wrapping up so I've got a bit more wiggle room in my mornings. Spent it on this: "I don’t know why we call it a game, there’s no game to it at all, it’s just me on the floor in Marta’s closet in the dark. And then she opens the door and I’m dead." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/dea...

It's SUMMER OF STEVIE. I'm just asserting this.

Quick personal update, I banged my knee on the corner of the fridge. Excited and nervous!

Recommend me something?

Michael Chabon with a history of jangle? Plus a 96 song playlist? Yes yes yes yes yes. michaelchabon.substack.com/p/a-history-...

I'm becoming a "Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants is my favorite Stevie album" guy???

Butcher of Nazareth is bonkers and brutal so far. Fans of Brian Evenson, listen up.

This is how I became an oral surgeon.

Senior asked if I had any advice, I declined, he reminded me that he asked the same thing after 9th grade and apparently my advice was to floss, which 100% checks out because I immeidatley was moved to expand on this, urging him to go to the dentist regularly during his 20s.

I love this book. It's the best.

One of my favourite book openings is: Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

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And another idea: during halftime for the NBA finals they should take the zamboni out for a spin.

Once convinced a colleague to change a famous problem involving a suicide pact into a question about a birthday party. bsky.app/profile/ewho...

Mathematicians stop phrasing logic problems in terms of death row prisoners challenge. [Inspired by reading the current issue of an official publication of one of my professional societies.]

This book looks interesting, with a blurb from the GOAT.

I don't know how rich you have to be to purchase a really comfortable chair but that's exactly as wealthy as I want to be.

I don't think LLMs are conscious but it wouldn't it be weird to only be alive when someone asks you a question?

Jordan Davis (@jordandavis.bsky.social)