Deep Sleep (May take a sec to puzzle out)

My guess is that 1/3 of DFW would be amused by this, 1/3 would be mortified that his book was famous enough to be parodied this way, and the remaining third would be seriously irked that this is for sure a countably finite number of Jeffs

In which the NYT commits the biggest act of gaslighting in the history of the crossword: the Sunday puzzle in the Magazine has clues that don't fit the grid. Or maybe you just aren't getting it because the title is about "Fusion". Then the next day they are not even sorry, it's just "Enjoy!"

In which I miss The Awl and specifically Balk's annual prognostications about men wearing shorts

Happy to report that Project Hail Mary is as good as everyone is saying, taking some justifiable deviations from the book that make sense for film, but I'll allow it. The upside surprise is Sandra Hüller, whose character is not explored enough in the novel and knocks it out of the park in the film.

[Exit Kent.]

and he would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids

This is something I tell to everyone on the East Coast that I can. If you have never gone out and physically stood in front of The West before but just seen it in photos, you absolutely must. You think you have an idea, but you have no idea: it is stupendously, ridiculously bigger than you think

It helps that I am a diehard WWDTM listener but the man has the voice of a generation, so head and shoulders above the others and still somehow only nipping at the heels of James Earl Jones for The Voice

We saw this yesterday and I was too stunned to compose a post about how remarkable it is. Tickets had gotten very scarce but the show was recently extended through early April.

I didn't think these were particularly difficult to classify tbh

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

This is wild, it sort of reads like Whitman but if you ran it in reverse gear. Song of My Self-Loathing. 🌿

Watching the Men's FreeSki Big Air Qualifiers and the NBC commentator just said, "You know, skiing takes place on snow"

Birnam Wood has come to Dunsinane

Uncle Walt knows he's sitting on a giant metaphor but he's not about to allow you to get all reductive with it 🌿

[Starting Song of Myself] "Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat" well that seems idyllic, sitting around talking about stuff (5 lines later) "parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stripped heart" Good god man, we're only on stanza 5 🌿

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

- Ahab has "friends at home?!" Like they show up on Saturdays for Tea with Captain Ahab? - Ahab, the character most associated with the word 'monomaniacal' in all of English Literature, is pausing here to consider "what will my friends think?" 🐋

This is the first footnote that I have highlighted, because, wut? Norton Critical is recognized as the gold standard for researchers, so now I really need to know if this actually happened & what the RFP was. "Subjects will row with whaling knives in their mouths to determine if this is unwise" 🐋

For just a second you're like, wow, I guess Melville is going with Fedallah's pronouns as it/its, that is indeed kind of badass. (Also, totally need to bring back 'swart' as a thing people say) 🐋

Little-known fact: "how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the forecastle" was a slogan under consideration for RFK Jr.'s new inverted food pyramid 🐋

I'm playing catch-up so this is news from a couple days ago's reading but "'Slid! Such a phiz!" is just an amazing way to react to a person's face 🐋

Getting really strong Whitman-Leaves-of-Grassy vibes from Melville's quick departure from obsessive Starbuck specifics to Big Ideas about the dignity of the arm that drives the spike, and the noble and sparkling soul. Contemporaneous texts although LoG is published 4 years after MD 🐋

Leaning in hard to all the shipping at the start of Chapter 19 like 🐋

Furtively taking notes on good sailoring in Father Mapple's church: - grasp the oriental knobs of the man-ropes - hand over hand - mount steps as if ascending the main-top 🐋 #md

Well that was a very satisfying day 2 read but it's getting late and I'd better be turning flukes #MD 🐋

A Month of Dick has begun. I read chapters 1 & 2 yesterday on the train back to our beloved city of the Manhattoes. Friends, it's not too late to get on this ship before it sails. (A decent online version with annotations can be found at powermobydick.com, if you do not have a paper copy handy.)

Ah well, not realizing the import of what one is saying and not consuming much news is probably par for the course for a chief executive, and is totally understandable if you are *checks notes* president of a think tank

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Hope to see a Portland band calling themselves Unusual Noise and playing outside the ICE hq soon

"there's a new serif in town"

🎵It must be nice It must be niiiiice To have Washington as A.I. 🎵

The Ozymandias reply thread is proof that we could turn Bsky into what was great about Twitter 1.0 if we wanted to

The Brian Lehrer Show just did a call-in segment on listeners' morning routines and it's a humbling exercise in selection bias. Every caller is like, well my alarm goes off at 4am, then I do some Tai Chi, read for 20 min, then hit the gym for an hour so I get back in time to walk the dog before work

Is it time to post that Neal Brennan video? I think it is. youtu.be/WOSqCjMRXWA?...

Well don't I feel stupid

It's finally happening youtu.be/59s5bzLCngQ?...

Mirror in the bathroom recompense For all my crimes of self defense

Actually, felt pretty good to go

Oh sure mister I-have-8-arms-and-no-internet-access, do tell

Wordle 1,535 2/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Finally they use one of my starter words as a clue and today I used a different starter words. So close to having 1'd, and yet so far

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I was only able to read half of this during breakfast but it's already one of the craziest stories I think I've ever read. I remember the headlines from this story when the news broke but the details are bananas. We've broken the back of reality. nymag.com/intelligence...

Well this one is easy

Government by the Stringer Bell rule wapo.st/4kjmqsn

*does a tentative little dance*