I hate this idea so much. Getting tattooed under sedation is like getting AI to write your story: you just want the product without going through sometimes painful process of creation. Fuck that.

it appears the roar has been restored.

The appeal of a pain-free tattoo is self-evident, John Semley argues. But isn’t it kind of cheating?

this profile of matt johnson by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social is so so good and made me miss toronto and all of the wonderful creative people i love in it so so much torontolife.com/deep-dives/m...

more and more (very wealthy) people are getting large, complicated tattoos under anesthetic. I mulled the potential health concerns of going under to get inked, along with the woolier, more philosophical concerns. like: should it even count? www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

more and more (very wealthy) people are getting large, complicated tattoos under anesthetic. I mulled the potential health concerns of going under to get inked, along with the woolier, more philosophical concerns. like: should it even count? www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

me literally :(

WIRED went to Brazil for YouTube’s first live NFL broadcast. It was helmed by the platform’s biggest influencers as the league expands its quest for global domination. www.wired.com/story/the-nf...

it’s pigskin day in America. and for @wired.com, I travelled to São Paulo to report on the NFL’s latest joint experiment: partnering with YouTube and “content creators” to pitch American football as both a global pastime and a Gen Z concern. www.wired.com/story/the-nf...

ah but we are against political violence this week I thought. or pretending to be?

It wasn’t long ago that the supervillains of American cinema were a sinister smorgasbord of dictators, Soviet saboteurs, and ululating terrorists. But these days, @johnsemley3000.bsky.social writes, we have met the real enemy, and he is us.

my most “lib” opinion is that I actually value free speech and abhor censorship!

your holiness: the Bible teaches us that we were all created in the perfect image of the Holy Father in Heaven. what my app presupposes is—what if we weren’t?

Tech bros, media moguls, and self-aware AI have become the new antagonists in American cinema, from “The Naked Gun” to “Superman.” Wherefore the supervillains of yesteryear?

people don’t call each other “fucko” much anymore. I intend to rectify that.

PUP! and the goat @sladkow.bsky.social

The Cold War supplied a cinematic stream of kooky Soviet scientists and stoic Eastern Bloc enforcers. But American supervillainy now means corrupt politicos with a more-than-passing resemblance to reality. @johnsemley3000.bsky.social asks: “Are we the baddies?”

people act like this is some hypocrisy. it isn’t. the centre constantly kowtows to the far right. the opposite is never true. that’s part of the reason the right keeps winning.

Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them” www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

NFL players are now taking psychedelics because they believe they can heal the damage caused by concussions and traumatic brain injury. does that....actually work? spoke to Bills All-Pro Jordan Poyer and Josh Allen (the researcher, not the QB) about it, for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/can-ps...

for the @torontolifemag.bsky.social #TIFF issue, I profiled Matt Johnson--and friends!--on the occasion of the Canadian premiere of Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. can such personal filmmaking scale in the "American" system? and...do we even want it to? torontolife.com/deep-dives/m...

here’s what makes Ravens/Bills games so fun: they’re both incredible teams, with the two most talented quarterbacks in the league. both teams are also total masters of the chokejob. but when they play each other, well, one of them has to win. so the questions arises: who will it be!?!?

Big Ben's Beef Jerky (2005-2010): A line of 97% fat free beef jerky, available in original and teriyaki, celebrating then-Steeler's QB Ben Roethlisberger. The product was dropped in light of Ben's criminal investigations, and the morality clause in his contract was exercised.

great call

Dak spits first

greatest city (or region) on planet earth.

can honestly say I’ve never been this close to Andy Reid.

classy fat joke from the notoriously slender and handsome-looking Ted Cruz, of whom it is so often said “women want him; men want to be him.”

do you follow the NFL closely? do you have thoughts about the rise of “digital only” games and needing to subscribe to like 12 different streaming services to follow your team, or the league as a whole? drop me a line as I would like to speak with you for an article. (RT plz!)

Here's Buffalo Bills WR Keon Coleman being confused and frustrated at Canadian bagged milk

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

sad news: Laurie Brooks, one of the first Canadians to receive psilocybin to treat end-of-life anxiety, has succumbed to her cancer. I profiled Laurie a few years ago for an article on the program, and was incredibly charmed by her wisdom and outlook. www.readersdigest.ca/health/condi...

more proof that ordinary people don’t want this stuff!

Shout Factory put THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP up on their YouTube page for free, and I cannot recommend it enough. There are some days when it's my very favorite movie.

Eggland's Best: such a great name for an egg brand. admittedly much better than my egg company, The Shame of Eggland.

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

woah! driving without a suspended license? off to a concentration camp with you!

the same day I filed a withering report on an AI film festival for @wired.com…probably just a confidence.

Went to the controversial "IMAX A.I. Film Festival" to mull questions for @WIRED. Questions like: "Is there an actual AI aesthetic?" and "Does standard movie theater etiquette re: looking at one’s cell phone apply during an AI film fest?" www.wired.com/story/cream-...

Went to the controversial "IMAX A.I. Film Festival" to mull questions for @WIRED. Questions like: "Is there an actual AI aesthetic?" and "Does standard movie theater etiquette re: looking at one’s cell phone apply during an AI film fest?" www.wired.com/story/cream-...

Kind of loving that the most astute quote in this (very good) piece on the AI Film Fest came from a teen. "AI is definitely an innovation. But innovation is the drug of humanity. We never know how to stop when it goes too far.” www.wired.com/story/cream-...

Does this sort of comedy hold up? “Good news,” writes culture journalist John Semley, “a thorough, if by no means exhaustive, review of the extensive ‘Sunny’ back catalog of episodes suggests that … yes, it does.” (2/4)

Wrote about one of my favorite films, and the woman behind it, for @indiewire.com '70s week. Tried to capture the spirit of the thing. www.indiewire.com/features/bes...

OPINION: "As a visitor from Berlin, what strikes me most about the fight over SEPTA funding is how public transportation is looked at by some as a vexatious budget item, when it's the exact opposite." — Adrian Schulz

In the aftermath of the NFL acquiring a stake in ESPN, SFGATE columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social writes that the destruction of sports as we know it is just getting started. 📰: bit.ly/4mgeSrU

JD Vance (signing an authorization for the National Guard to invade the Onion offices): I mean, guys, I can take a joke. Nobody loves a laugh more than me. Ha-ha.

gonna miss playing FarmVille with this dude.

This is a great piece. Do radio for people who love radio. radioinsight.com/blogs/306699...

assignments for The Baffler, The New Republic, and The Nation. what I call "hitting for the cycle."