Every cafe north of 635 in Dallas feels like church youth group.

Wearing the same two pairs of jeans for years while awaiting the return of slim fit like the return of Jesus Christ.

I’ve lived in states in each category, and there were great people and huge assholes in all of them.

Making pecan pie from the Joy of Cooking @michaelerard.bsky.social gave me brand new for college graduation 25 years ago.

Steak taco salad. Ribeye on greens with fried masa thumbprint croutons, avocado tomatillo dressing, avocado slices, picked chiles, and pickled onions.

Another way to smother your inner life with entertainment. Just look out the window!

Resisting AI is cool, but can we also resist short form video while we’re at it?

Do you prefer the silk breeches ass shaking of Glenn Gould’s 81 Goldberg variations or the heavy shredding of the 55 originals?

Incredible lyrics, incredible solo www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzad...

Extremely good list.

This was a lovely little story to stumble onto in the library. Made me nostalgic for San Francisco seen from the water.

Had to grab this. If everybody did a year end wrap-up zine instead of posting lists online, maybe we could tackle all this music without adding 40 albums in December and giving them half-assed listens.

Some incredible person changed the TV at gym from the NFL show where everyone dresses like a 19th century train conductor to The Young & the Restless, and I ran an extra mile just watching this dude make smug faces at elaborately costumed women.

The award looks like the glass skater, and yet no Skate Story…

Every time I heard this song I was thinking that it reminded me of another song. Driving me crazy. youtu.be/OuNpUFGeRYo?...

Sure, you can visualize a scene from a book, but can you hear the silly songs in a Pynchon novel? Taste the food in Hemingway? Smell the bong smoke in Infinite Jest? Feel the smoothness of Gregor Samsa’s carapace? Read harder.

Cold night red beans and rice

What happens when you don’t let your kids play video games on Sunday.

Nice frame!

Made some sweet potato agnolotti and an arugula & roasted veg salad with an avocado tomatillo dressing and fried shallots.

As long as we get a sequel to this too. youtu.be/32FB-gYr49Y?...

Came across this album on a year end list and discovered that the first song is peppered with references to where I’m living now. Snuggles into the same spot I have for this year’s Wednesday album and Ryan Davis. youtu.be/z1ehX2SNyl0?...

Cosmic Collapse with treats by the guy who made Arco? I’m in.

From my kitchen window earlier today

William Gibson heard Grumbling Fur!

They gotta at least drag it over to the skate park at the UN plaza so people can replicate the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater SF level.

There have been limits that I have pushed past.

Heard Hootie and the Blowfish and Notorious BIG playing over each other in the gym and briefly thought it was Geese.

Dude grilled a possum for Thanksgiving.

Pretending to know about something you really don’t know about is the molten core of Gen-X culture.

The four songs already out from the new SML album are making me consider the drive to Philly to see them next month.

Coming to realize that I basically live in Stardew Valley now. Hard to shop for groceries without bumping into 10 people I know. Not a complaint.

I recently got my family into playing TowerFall (still incredible!), and the other day my 11-yo asked if the game’s developer had made anything else. We looked up Matt Makes Games and discovered that Matt was now Maddy (Celeste!), and my son accepted this fact like any other normal thing.

Coffee selfie

We’ve got a wiggler

This recipe has seen some use (Momofuku).

The New Yorker will travel unwrapped through the mail carrying its load of subscription cards, but the minute it enters your house the cards will fall out onto your floor.

Most pop music bounces right off of me, but everything Robyn does goes straight for my jugular. youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...

Just went through the poster shipping file, and only 6 Canadians picked one up this time where I used to sell 80 or so. I don’t blame my Canadian friends at all. The trade situation is fucked and expensive to boot, but it’s a bummer. I hope things get better. 🇨🇦

Olly signed the prints.

Getting into Baby Steps, but why’d they give him so much ass? It’s kind of appalling watching those hams slide around in the mud.

AI is incapable of writing something as completely juiceless as Nintendo marketing voice over. “Samus travels to hot volcanos and cold mountains in this mysterious adventure…” My bad for turning on the sound.

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Spotify is trying so hard to be the shittiest tech on earth.

I can perfectly imagine Paul Westerberg singing over this.

I’m too lazy to do it myself, but someone should remake Get Your War on with snippets from the Epstein emails.

Now that we’re getting a Valve GameCube, can a Bandcamp iPod be far behind?

This song is such a bass line clinic, flipping back and forth between funky riffing and almost classical counterpoint to the vocal melody. youtu.be/ghoDVhq_ysM?...

I’ll probably buy a Steam machine cause my PC is 10 years old, and the PS4 is the newest console I own, but I’m PSYCHED about the existence of a new Steam controller. I was one of those perverts who loved the original.

Ah man I forgot about this episode. It’s almost an A Life Well Wasted story. There’s a parallel universe where I made a show with Shawn, and it was all stupid shit like this. He was so good at bullshitting people.