“What kind of pet shop is filled with rambunctious yahoos and hot jazz music at 1 a.m.?” “Um…the best damn pet shop in town!”

New Indian restaurant downtown (west) called Masala Republic. 1325 Washington but entrance in back, off 14th. Haven’t been just passing along

Good riddance to that Orioles season. What a colossal waste.

This only happens to you once

Legit woke up thinking about Sean Penn’s performance, which has this Tim Robinson but malevolent energy

One Battle After Another. What a picture.

Played my original Kid A cd on a blu-ray player through workhorse NAD receiver and good Grado open-back headphones last night — BLISS

Wednesday tickets ✅

Radiohead’s “How to Disappear Completely” is an amazing song but very funny to hear walking into a restaurant for Tuesday lunch

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

If I have gotten anything right in a decade of the STL 100, it’s including Veritas every year. A gem.

I once shared a lunch table with John Lithgow, who was very kind to a young graduate-school fellow at a fancy-pants Sun Valley writers’ conference. (He had just published a children’s book IIRC.)

OK, as someone who actually covered the Missouri Legislature when there were a lot of anti-abortion rights Democrats, this strategy does not work. First of all, the last prominent Missouri Democrat who opposed abortion rights and won a statewide race was Thomas Eagleton. ... In 1980.

Started digging the old CDs out of the basement. This shit sounds great. We might’ve played ourselves.

Wait I know the American experiment is collapsing but you’re telling me there is a band called Goose and a band called Geese and the latter is not just Goose playing twice

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

It remains amazing that the question is not “How can you lose money selling booze to the pickleball bourgeoisie?” but “How much money can you lose?”

Ganz was already a must-read for me, and he should be for you too.

Andor!

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Wishing for the Angelos family to sell the team has turned into a real monkey’s paw situation!

Striking piece by a former U.S. Navy captain on Trump’s lethal attack in the Caribbean. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

“Belinda Says” by Alvvays, a perfect song

Good lord

New Mom’s Deli is open at 5425 Hampton (old Dado’s Cafe), 9-3 Tues-Sat

Taylor making Sabrina the only guest star on her new album but then announcing her engagement two days before Sabrina’s album drops. 10/10, no notes, the best to ever do it. I’m legit in awe.

I’m here for Bad Guys 2 because I’m a Maron completist.

I knew Kpop Demon Hunters was popular. I didn’t realize it was 5 screens at Ronnie’s on a Saturday night popular.

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

"Cockroaches" the exact literal term most used in Rwanda by Hutu ultranationalists against Tutsis in the lead up to when they killed hundreds of thousands of them in a matter of weeks. Also used by Begin to describe Palestinians, "drugged cockroaches in a bottle."

The 7-year-old restaurant critic: “This place looks like the chefs are professionals.”

The details of this movie are … something deadline.com/2025/08/kevi...

Me: These people, they are your family. This is your history. Your past is your future. This is what has made you the person you are. This is what you will pass on to your children. This is your legacy. My children: look at all these uncs

Contemporary German novelists translated into English worth checking out: Jenny Erpenbeck, the late Wolfgang Hilbig and Clemens Meyer. Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming is extraordinary novel about a group of adolescents/young men in E. Germany as the Wall fell

What is this — thing? — in my house? Prolonged … silence?

Obviously, going to Brentwood Target today was a terrible choice, but since a year ago this weekend I almost certainly caught COVID (for the first time!) while running back-to-school errands, the bar is very very low.

when you go to westport plaza and you are not wearing a technical polo

<herding animals into the ark> at least the temperature has dropped

Brave new world etc etc www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6maQas1/

a hilarious thing that John McCain of all people turned out to be prescient about was that UFC was a barbaric sideshow that would poison our culture

VS Naipaul

Looks like something possibly called Elevation by Krena is moving into the former Bulrush space on Washington

every energy drink has cough-medicine flavor at its innermost heart, Celsius just obscures it better, but Robitussin will out

My solemn pledge to you as I ramp up my Video Content for the Post-Dispatch (stay tuned to the paper’s TikTok!) is that I will only post video of myself eating in my car to make fun of influencers who do so

Vacation is over over: created the master STL 100 spreadsheet for 2026

SHE DID NOT TELL ME THIS UNTIL TODAY. WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER ALMOST 24 YEARS