just....enjoy this

TONIGHT: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social visits, oh my God, the SPHERE in Vegas. “I was suddenly, profoundly grateful to be dead sober, and fearful on behalf of the past and future aging Phishheads and Deadheads trapped in this expensive place, trying to stay upright.” flaminghydra.com/no-space-lik...

DONALD TRUMP'S COMPLETE LIST OF DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WHO CREATED THE HOAX "EPSTEIN FILES"

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

zuckerberg trying for John Wick this Halloween but ending up more ghislaine maxwell

AAAAHHHHHH WHAT IS IT KILL IT WITH FIRE

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

I wrote about blood donation, Vanderpump Rules and astonishing cookies for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/its-not-abou...

New episode of CARBFACE featuring Andy Corren, author of DIRTBAG QUEEN podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social and @mariabustillos.com chat about The Argument, a new publication that is supposedly For The Left. "So they whiffed instantly on the most volatile topic in U.S. news right now, and I bet not by accident." flaminghydra.com/r/eddbcc67?m...

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

See you in Manhattan with all these smart folks on October 28?

ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social looks at art in Norway. "[I]t would appear that people have been aura farming all along, centuries, in fact, before the age of antibiotics and electricity." flaminghydra.com/art-for-arts...

New episode of CARBFACE podcast featuring Helen Cho, the woman behind many of your fave docuseries: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I wrote about being 23 and delusional in Ireland, for The Places Review: theplacesreview.com/p/ireland-by...

“When I left my hard-won editor job, I was 35 years old, an overwhelmed new mother who had once dreamed of rising through the ranks of a magazine.” @lauriewoolever.bsky.social

folks let me tell you: a normal administration is "veep shit." this signal stuff is not veep shit, it's "the entire national security team of the Trump admin is complicit in behavior that ensures that every hostile government has a direct line of sight into American-decisionmaking" shit

My forthcoming book *isn’t* a Bourdain tell-all, but PEOPLE mag knows the angles and kindly excerpted it here: people.com/anthony-bour...

Book tour dates for my forthcoming memoir, CARE AND FEEDING, published by Ecco:

If you want to do something to protect journalism, send money to journalist-owned, cooperative and local outlets. As much as you can spare. @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social @defector.bsky.social @hellgatenyc.com @404media.co and the one I work at!! flaminghydra.com/donate

COUNTING DOWN TO THE NEXT FYRE FESTIVAL: A Times Square Billboard Seeks Aid for LA Fire Victims. Is It for Real? www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/16/l...

Big new ep of Carbface with me and @lauriewoolever.bsky.social. I talk about the odyssey for getting my sperm checked, and Laurie talks toilets. shows.acast.com/carbface

What I'm reading at an info desk tonight at @prairielights.com: an ARC of Care and Feeding, a memoir by the late Anthony Bourdain's assistant @lauriewoolever.bsky.social. Sharp, insightful, and shies from nothing. Halfway through & devouring like a good meal! Look for it on March 11th, 2025.

ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on some extremely restorative and important sandwiches flaminghydra.com/party-all-th...

The complex flavors of a story by @lauriewoolever.bsky.social are indescribable. Today a gentle, funny and wrenching story about her mom: 'The Lorna Doone Hour' flaminghydra.com/issue-85/

I’d love to meet you at MOFAD! Let’s talk travel, Tony B, crab Rangoon and things of that nature:

Bugs. Hiding. Everywhere. Even in your body!! Eeeek, by @lauriewoolever.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/sweltering-p...

Maria Bustillos on the bright future of journalist-run media, at THE NATION: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

WE CAN GO OUT SWINGING! www.theguardian.com/media/2024/m...

Chicken of the Corn flaminghydra.com/issue-4/

What the hell is "corn-fed" chicken, anyway? Don't all chickens eat corn? @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on flaminghydra.com/iss...

Just been informed that serial rapist and cinnamon roll apologist Mario Batali posted that he’s “back” and I’m going to need people never, ever to say that #MeToo went too far or that men’s careers are ruined by allegations.

Happy pub day to @seanhowe.bsky.social

Millicent Souris consistently writes about money and New York and class and financial predators in a way that lights my brain all the way up: https://millicent.substack.com/p/money-money-money?utm_campaign=post

Talked about moms, sickness, death and how funny it can be on HAIRY BUTTHOLE podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5V0gEHxRrtUwiavdZcPBkw?si=DUFFu9rtQpWrojkETldh-g

Sharing this podcast episode here because I’m proud of it, the song is great, and the whole SongWriter series is such a great listen: https://songwriterpodcast.com/laurie-woolever-mike-ruffino

Happy birthday Am*ric@

if it fits, I sits

You ever think about how America normalized giving a cup of your pee to a corporation so you could bag groceries in order to hopefully see a doctor one day

Despite her beauty, she occasionally dissociates and commits atrocities

You won’t regret spending a few minutes with Auto Syndicate’s BONGO DANCE single and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqSaCCmcEg

I’m writing a book for Ecco