This week on my book club podcast I spoke with @davidpurdum.bsky.social about Michael Konik's The Smart Money. You can listen to the full episode on substack or wherever you get your podcasts, or in the link below.

This week on my book club podcast I spoke with @davidpurdum.bsky.social about Michael Konik's The Smart Money. You can listen to the full episode on substack or wherever you get your podcasts, or in the link below.

I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

🫶🫶🫶 everyone asked about you x birthday girl dc x @davidhill.bsky.social x @jayseadub.bsky.social

Shocked to hear about Kaleb Horton. So young. He was one of many people I knew only online yet he constantly preached that people should log off and be present in the real world, including meeting their friends face to face. As a tribute to him I’ll make an effort to do that with more of you.

Over 270 journalists have been murdered since October 7, 2023. Help us move $1,000 into the IFJ Safety Fund by Labor Day to protect Palestinian reporters from Israel’s violence and support efforts to ensure a thriving Palestinian media in the future. bit.ly/supportPJS

I spoke with @lancebradley.bsky.social about Al Alvarez’s classic “The Biggest Game in Town.” We get into everything from Texas hitmen to Sylvia Plath’s love life. You can listen and subscribe at davidhill.substack.com

I spoke to Haley Mlotek about John Gregory Dunne's sort-of-memoir "Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season." We talked about the city, love, divorce, fantasy, and, of course, Joan Didion. You can listen (and subscribe!) here: davidhill.substack.com/p/vegas-with...

I rarely write about racing anymore, but I had fun talking to my friend @davidhill.bsky.social on his American Gambler podcast about the memoir of union organizer-turned-handicapper Len Ragozin, as well as my own book and whether birding is like gambling. davidhill.substack.com/p/the-odds-m...

Happy Derby Day. This was the riest thing I was ever paid to write. $50 in 2011. I felt like I had really made it big. www.theawl.com/2011/05/two-...

Took the kids to the nations capital for the weekend

Looks like the stock market isn't the only thing that's down

Maybe we shouldn’t elect judges apnews.com/article/new-...

I’m going to see the brutalist at the theater tonight because I’m trying to get back to being the kind of person who would do that

Feels like what we need right now is a little bit of game theory

America is so washed

Get off social media

I listened to the NYT interview with Curtis Yarvin and man that guy is really stupid.

Trudging along through the MIT Mystery Hunt while watching some sports. Inside every man there are two wolves.

Alex Haley interviewing Martin Luther King, cartoons by Leroi Niemann, anything like that?

Is this satire fortune.com/2025/01/14/w...

this defense of chatgpt may be the funniest thing i've ever read in my life

Rams defense are eating

You never forget your first

i don't understand was i supposed to kill him

On my way to see a high school production of Anything Goes. A chance to vicariously relive my star turn as Moonface in 11th grade

I think a lot of the reactionary tech stuff can be boiled down to these guys believing that once they were rich enough they’d be both happy and respected only to find out that they’re neither and they’ve chosen to believe that it’s everyone else’s fault.

hulu will merge with fubo so fubo will drop their lawsuit blocking venu

Is it finally happening

We gotta go back to dvds or something

2024 we don’t know her

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Meet me at the Shisu Crispy cart in downtown Tampa in twenty minutes if you want to hear about my fantasy football team

This is a wonderful piece on Netflix and how it’s changing the entertainment business. I think one element of what is going on isn’t just that Netflix is making stuff that is cheap, but that they know that more people want the cheap stuff…. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

I had a different version of this experience when someone who knew who Laura Loomer was asked me if I knew who she was and when I said I did he gave me a disappointed look like we were both sickos who should be ashamed

I regret to inform you I am in Florida

Conclave is the best movie I’ve ever seen about how stupid voting is

I had business cards… #wprbxmas

Postal Strike at Christmastime is my new favorite Christmas song #wprbxmas

@jon.wprb.com it’s really cool to hear Maggie hosting part of the show. Feel like I’ve heard her grow up! The circle will be unbroken!

It’s midnight on December 25 and David Hill’s “The Tradition” is playing on #WPRBXmas. Christmas has arrived!

It’s midnight so I’m posting this picture for the umpteenth year (but the first year on Bluesky). Merry Christmas to Debbie wherever she may be! #wprbxmas

Wrapping presents and listening to #wprbxmas another year. Its a real family tradition at this point

How are the Jets even a real franchise

i need drew lock to stop giving the falcons defense touchdowns so we can actually watch penix play

My car wash has a bust of what I think is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow out front and I’m not sure why

I went on Tipping Pitches to talk about two of my favorite things: unions and sports. open.spotify.com/episode/1wFa...

Now they want us to let the drones play girls sports. Never.

Behold.