Some Monday night music: Pretty When You Cry, by Lana Del Rey. youtu.be/2CSWw2OVxio?...

"But will robots take my job in a good way or a bad way?" www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...

Some (more) Sunday night music: Free, by Florence + The Machine. youtu.be/ui8kUKuLBaU?...

Some Sunday night music: Smoking Section, by St. Vincent. youtu.be/IQuoBWFTKto?...

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver. poets.org/poem/summer-...

"Beauty caught me and never let me go." Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps, by Andrea Gibson. youtu.be/OnSW9Tdg1yI?...

"Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, a couple who spent years walking the streets of New York and handing out tens of thousands of backpacks filled with supplies — toiletries, socks, notebooks — to people in need, died within days of each other." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...

Some middle-of-the-night music: Like Spinning Plates, by Radiohead. youtu.be/QhHMJkeF8zo?...

Some (more) Saturday night music: Into Dust, by Mazzy Star. youtu.be/04J0ihSeIuI?...

Some Saturday night music: Closedown, by The Cure. youtu.be/puDsFQ6CyPM?...

victory lapping on this one

"More than a century after his death, Gaudí remains one of architecture's most recognisable figures, known for a highly distinctive body of work ... Although his buildings remain widely admired, his architectural style has rarely been directly imitated." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifge...

I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.

Eventually they will come for you.

"The empalme, a handheld snack that features two tortillas dipped and dragged through pork lard, with layers of chunky refried beans, melted white cheese, and a meaty filling, such as carne asada or asado de puerco, between them." www.texasmonthly.com/food/empalme/

Some middle of the night music: Unmade, by Thom Yorke. youtu.be/TxHgmAFkNyI?...

Some Friday night music: Guess I'm Doing Fine, by Beck. youtu.be/2e8fxfvqu6M?...

"Mistaking cultural signifiers and identity markers for politics is centrism's most dangerous pathology, the thing that makes centrism the handmaiden of the right." Post-political pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w...

Some (more) Thursday night music: Whatever You Do, by Brandi Carlile. youtu.be/1A1fuxNXoH4?...

Some Thursday night music: Two of Us on the Run, by Lucius. youtu.be/TTlCrsmBz-Q?...

In "Land," by Maggie O'Farrell, "the facts ground the fiction, the fiction enlivens the facts, and both work together to suggest that the pursuit of resurrecting the past and the pursuit of telling a good story can, in some cases, be one and the same." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"So when Messi walks, he’s not resting. He’s chunking the entire field. Every position, every shift, every gap in the backline is feeding a pattern library that he’s been building since he was 5 years old. By the time he decides to move, the map is already drawn." kottke.org/26/07/why-th...

2,300 miles in less than 44 days. "She appears to be the first American woman to have successfully rowed solo from California to Hawaii — as well as the youngest person, and the fastest, to have completed that route without assistance." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

Some Wednesday night music: Problem With It, by Plains youtu.be/YPNFSXjVH_o?...

"Formally recognized as a distinct cloud type only last year, asperitas clouds can be stunning in appearance, unusual in occurrence, and are relatively unstudied." Asperitas Clouds Over New Zealand (Image Credit & Copyright: Witta Priester) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25081...

"Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years, including in May’s runoff that made him the Republican nominee for U.S. senator." www.propublica.org/article/ken-...

OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush

"Everything that made me a bad dog has worked to my advantage in the private sector." www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a24281

News outlets don't need to "cover the controversy" if the "controversy" can be explained by one word: racism. There's nothing to unpack

Some (more) Tuesday night music: Powers, by boygenius. youtu.be/lWCgeXVZ_eU?...

Some Tuesday night music: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, by U2. youtu.be/gF4GS9cSll4?...

Seems like it would have been easier if people hadn't endorsed and defended and excused and voted for a Nazi.

"I am firmly on the side of the ones that charge ... Chips and queso are never free, and queso—with its traditional Velveeta base—is arguably easier to produce than fresh salsa. A dish’s price point depends not only on the recipe, the labor, and the ingredients." www.texasmonthly.com/food/mexican...

"Even the quite openly white nationalist contingent on Elon Musk's X was quick to try and run interference, claiming [Patriot Front] was a leftist plant. It's funny what these guys care about and what they don't." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Some middle-of-the-night music: Killer, by Phoebe Bridgers. youtu.be/psZuC10Oa4E?...

Some Monday night music: Flume, by Bon Iver. youtu.be/8NstorpFnjM?...

My afternoon reading: In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson.

"But wait. You are 70 years old. You’re sitting in your home ... You never moved to Paris or quit the toxic job or booked the Spanish lesson. You were too nervous to get that tattoo, never went back to school ..." kottke.org/26/07/our-li...

"Slackers aren't a monolith, these films suggest, and their creed is more than just a hipster variant of laziness. It’s a cultivated anti-establishment stance, rooted in intellectual curiosity, political principle, and significant stamina." www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Some Sunday night music: Peaceful Place, by Leon Bridges. youtu.be/LtdrdE6sssg?...

"'He was all good before they took him,' Imrain said as we spoke [at the] suburban Dallas mosque his family attends. His dad was a healthy, working veteran of the war in Afghanistan, abiding by the increasingly austere limits of his immigration status." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

"It's easier to make small things feel larger, but it's harder to make large things feel small," he said. "The library is the landscape, and the landscape is the library." www.dezeen.com/2026/07/02/t...

Bribery. Trump's Department of Justice dropped charges of bribery after ... "An agency official said that Gautam Adani’s offer to invest $10 billion in the United States did not affect the decision to abandon a bribery case against him." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/n...

Some (more) Saturday night music: Me & My Dog, by boygenius. youtu.be/6T5zc36sAIE?...

Some (more) Saturday night music: Western Nights, by Ethel Cain. youtu.be/AevIGrk8iLU?...

Some Saturday night music: Why Is It So Hard?, by Charles Bradley. youtu.be/yBdTVmSVq14?...

To be fair it did take quite a lot of plagues for the pharaoh to get the picture

Types of Tornado Alert xkcd.com/3267/

"Mostly Ds: You've been blessed with enviable corporeal ease. You're a bona fide Ben Franklin! You delight in the simplest of daily pleasures — the sun upon your derriere, the breeze across your ballocks, the unrestrained bouncing ..." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whi...

"For as long as movies have been around, they have reinforced the stories we tell ourselves about our national character, such as your station in life isn’t dictated by birth and anything is possible, including justice and untold riches, if you’re determined enough." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...