Hottest shirt of 2025.

I hate to say this because I don’t like perpetuating stereotypes, but I feel like it’s just going to be a bunch of landlords kvetching about how he’s making them lose money and Greenblatt will be like “See? Antisemitism!”

It’s fitting NYC elected a mayor who seems to never sleep.

I only talk to him once maybe every five years and he’s technically in Westchester but I still wanted to check in.

Curtis Sliwa proved that haters are capable of helping to bring change.

Just need write-ins to beat Adams now.

Best city in the world, baby!

Damn. Love to see it.

Curious to see whether Cuomo gets a book deal or Fox News gig first.

Sitting here on the eve of what is hopefully the end of Andrew Cuomo’s political career and remembering how he suddenly made weed legal in hopes of getting people to ignore all the trouble he was in as governor.

I’m glad Curtis Sliwa almost 100 percent won’t become the next mayor tomorrow, but I’ll also miss seeing his crazy ass featured so much on TV. open.substack.com/pub/meltedch...

Marathon weather is almost always perfect.

There’s a short home video clip of Jerry Stiller trying to catch a pigeon that got into his apartment in “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.” I’m happy to know something like that once happened.

Yeah, what he said. But also: that art deco bathroom is my dream pooping situation.

"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."

The soundtrack to Kaplan’s Plot is up at @largeheartedboy.bsky.social. Also gave me an excuse to talk about the difference between novels that are influenced by cinema, and novels that are written with the purpose of being adapted into films. largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/29/j...

Emphasis on “sadly.”

Tonight my daughter met this pup and I told her “Dogs in sunglasses is something that never gets old” and it was a nice reminder there will always be a few good things no matter how bad things get.

@jasondiamond.bsky.social ‘s book KAPLAN’S PLOT is on here! Woo hoo! (Read it)

Very pleased to have contributed the companion essay to the @criterion.bsky.social's new edition of Guillermo del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021), which is available for purchase today: www.criterion.com/films/35272-... (My essay should be online soon!)

Fell asleep on the couch around midnight. Woke up at 230 AM and this game is still on. Baseball is back!

If Sliwa wins he’ll be carried off by a hundred cats to a small landfill ruled by rats, banished to live there for the rest of his days.

I love when AOC gets all “Hardest rapper from The Bronx” in speeches.

Playing the Prince soundtrack for Batman for my wife and daughter. My wife was 2 when the movie when it came out so she wasn’t aware he did the entire soundtrack. Blowing both of their minds right now.

Somebody claiming NYRB Classics is “big pub” and has the money to pay people to hype “Stoner” feels like a claim from back in the 1990s when conspiracy theories were quaint and harmless things quacks posted on message boards nobody read.

I actually look like a side of beef in this photo. Very fatty beef. A gristly porterhouse. Impressive stuff.

Talked to the Brits about why the lads are into “country menswear.” www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

Not so smart now, eh?

Really opened up a big ol Pandora’s Box by giving my daughter chocolate milk for the first time and also showing her how to blow bubbles in the chocolate milk.

Still blows my mind that the “Jews on Film” podcast has been around for several years and nobody had talked with them about Hester Street. It’s a masterpiece and I’m glad it was open for me to fawn over. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

I’ll never get over how politicians and the media spent the last few years claiming things like being against killing kids in Gaza is antisemitism or Zohran Mamdani hates Jews, all while actual nazis and antisemitic beliefs become more normalized by the day in America.

Why did Japan’s iconic magazine Popeye do an issue in English for the first time? I got the scoop. www.getthemelt.com/p/japanese-m...

My rule of thumb over the last few years has been if you read something or hear a politician bring up how Jews don’t feel safe or are unsafe because of something that 9 out of 10 times you should believe the opposite.

Since 2021 was four years ago I’m trying to figure out if he’s in a “I’m not into Nazi stuff anymore” good place or “I’m less into Nazi stuff because you found out I’m into Nazi stuff” good place. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

“He’s been his family’s sole provider, working for the same boss for 20 years, while Sandibell cares for their children, Ofelia and 4-year-old Nathan.”

I’ve got this one cabinet in my office that’s just weed and this Karl Marx doll my daughter is frightened of. I love opening it because it’s like I’ve got some stoner guy squatting in my apartment.

For @talkingpointsmemo.com on building @hellgatenyc.com: Is the cure to local news starting really small, building up subscribers day after day, & breaking stories, until one day everyone has health care, good salaries, and no threat of being laid off??? MAYBE! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

Why did Japan’s iconic magazine Popeye do an issue in English for the first time? I got the scoop. www.getthemelt.com/p/japanese-m...

Tonight!

What he said.

I don’t totally understand Sabrina Carpenter and assume she’s a psyop.

Everything tastes good when you put it in a hot dog bun.

Something I’ve learned about being the parent of a toddler is the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, round and round…

Absolutely fucked how many brilliant and vibrant people who shifted culture when I was younger won’t even make it to 60, but this is especially is gutting. He was something else. pitchfork.com/news/dangelo...

Just ate two chili dogs. Hell of a life.

I can’t wait!

“The Keaton aesthetic (let’s call it that) was sourced, at least in the beginning, from Goodwill stores…” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...