Have to hand it to the algorithm on this one

14 yo just got back from an overnight scout campout on the USS Alabama, and now he’s got Moby Dick down off the shelf. That’s right, buddy.

Cheers, brother 🍻 🐔

“Carrying on” is such a strange southern euphemism. It can mean anything from goofing around disrespectfully to having an affair. How did it go from “keep going” to “indulging in all manner of sin”?

Parks Department magic hour

At last we have invented the baseline test from the hit movie Don't Invent the Baseline Test 2049

What are the best filmed versions of Sherlock Holmes doing the trick where he looks at someone for a second and then tells them about their life in great detail based on what he sees? I need some good ones for a class

New meds work great but have me in a permanent state of ambient nausea. There is no joy in lunchville.

slowly but surely letting myself get talked into thinking the PTA Vineland movie might turn out to be a banger

Maybe it’s just a coincidence and my tiny sample size but it seems like there’s maybe been a return to a particular turn of the century style in music videos lately

it's both borgesian and kafkaesque how i sit at the computer for work

Is there a special name for the mid nineties languid downtempo coffee shop indie bands like Mazzy Star, Low, Ida, Trespassers William, etc.? Codeine Shoegaze? Acoustic Triphop? Dirge Pop?

Sorry but if you’re nice the whole year ‘round because you want to be a “good person” then you still haven’t killed the Santa in your head

Fascinating developments in the woods just outside this remote cabin we’re staying in

it was all blood fire death yesterday. now it's 'who will comfort our wayward youth'

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recently found out archaeological evidence suggests Jerusalem, across much of the period covered in the Hebrew Bible, may have had as few as 400 inhabitants, therefore meaning many biblical events fall under the remit of the reknowned adage: "try that in a small town"

Oh hell yeah we’re saving posts?

New Beths record is hitting the spot. Obviously they’re a throwback to the late 90s indie twee era but I think they’ve got the recipe exactly right.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

YouTuber personality and youth pastor personality have reached complete convergence

The Elephant Graveyard videos on Joe Rogan, the manosphere, and the SV billionaire death cult are good and almost certainly correct but wow they are very much in the Late GenX Paranoid Style

Good evening. It’s parks department recreational soccer night in America 🫡

For your commute: a dispatch from 1997 tidal.com/browse/track...

Reading Vineland at the edge of Panama City Beach and I wonder if some future Pynchon of the Redneck Riviera is already out here somewhere, e-scootering from the smoke shop to their part time gig at the Ripley’s Believe it or Not

Has anyone else read this? I just want to talk about it for a minute

Hey real quick: Is the Cameron Winter album good? I have listened to it 11 times.

Going to make an effort to be about 90% less online for a while. If you see me on here please in your mercy alert the authorities, prepare the jail, etc. joshweathersby at gmail dot com if you’d like to keep me apprised of any beautiful things in the world. If you have my # don’t be a stranger

Time to delete Facebook and instagram finally, I think. Outlived their usefulness a long time ago. I don’t really use them anymore except to occasionally get myself mad at people I sort of know.

Rooting for Inter in the final because my wife is on the way to Milan for a conference and it might be fun for her to accidentally go to a parade she doesn’t understand

It’s cool how the word “deal” has been hollowed out of all meaning

Can you do collaborative playlists on tidal? Am I just not seeing it?

I was thinking about making a summer playlist but I’m just getting back on this one you guys all made a couple of years ago instead

actually, your honor, it’s NOT illegal (dropping a laptop heavily on the desk) I asked a computer

The Wisdom of Beans

There are so many of these but somehow the first one to come to mind was “Tributary Otis” by the Refreshments, which I have not thought about for probably 15 years

Sections include but are not limited to: Books You Can Pick Up and Open to Anywhere, Aristocratic South American Weirdos, Melancholy Espionage (Marias and LeCarre), Problematic Southerners, Books My Friends Wrote, Interwar European Weirdos, Meditations on Birds/Horses, “Other”

I’ve threatened it for a while but now it’s time to organize the bookshelf by vibes.

literally make one friend who isn't trying to sell you some kind of weightlifting serum and talk to them

Is “gangster becomes a florist” a whole trope in crime fiction? Or am I just remembering a couple of cases and overstating it? It feels like it happens a lot.

You cannnot trust a pastoral figure of any type if they’re ripped

Thinking about duets/vocal combinations that shouldn’t work but do. The Roots sampling Joanna Newsom, things of that nature.

I still laugh every time I see a broken escalator

Big morning at the new feeder

“Remember a few years ago when Gorillaz became The Beatles for Gen Z?” Did this really happen? Is this true?

Thursday Murder Club movie casting looks pretty good imo

Just accidentally heard Piazza, New York Catcher for the first time in probably 20 years and was struck by how well it really does capture a lost time

When I was a kid my grandparents gave us subscriptions to Sunset Magazine and National Geographic and I think that explains more of my aesthetic sensibilities than I might like to admit.