I will be ramping up cultural production in 2026. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/new-year-n...

The NYT's latest take on Gen X made me wonder what happened to my half of it, so I tried to sort it. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/generation...

I need to get this in the mail soon.

Herr Professor Marcuse Had all the brains he could use. He thought power’s last play Was allowing enjoyment all day, But that pleasure was just more abuse.

Playground Existentialism. You have no ball and you can never go home.

So is today the day we all break character and let Graydon Carter know this Nuzzi/Lizza thing was just his surprise going away present? Good job, everyone.

I am trying to manifest a Hal Hartley revival with @loureedsnephew.bsky.social www.themediumcool.com/p/trust-in-h...

Around 2011 @jamesbeaudreau.bsky.social sent me three CDs. Beautiful artefacts from which came lasting friendship. He recently released a solo guitar record, & it's a thing of strange, true beauty. Old reviews: olidabass.blogspot.com/2011/03/albu... jamesbeaudreau.bandcamp.com/album/workbe...

Orange Monday

Cool. This hotel has a chamber where I can leave my body while my parasitic clone does all my work. Or maybe it's just a shower.

The fact that there is a Supercuts and a Great Clips sounds like something out of Evelyn Waugh.

Can all of Blue Sky read and discuss this? Written in 1964 but incredibly relevant for understanding the moment, I think.

People posting memes about Jimmy reuniting with Rosalynn in heaven should think about how Gilda Radner would feel about that.

Christmas confession. Growing up I thought the series "Family Affair" was dubbed from another language. I had no idea what going on on that show. Anyone else?

I see that White Lotus has detected my non-compliance and has activated Parker Posey.

Prediction: Future historians will tie collapse of our civilization to the fact that we could not move from "one letter to the editor = 100 people" rule of thumb to "1MM comments = 0 people" rule of thumb.

And what was the best case if that play had worked?

@ugarles.bsky.social I need a hot take on the LV implosion please.

Something I’ve been working on for a long time, in memory of those of us who didn’t make it. It was interesting (and cathartic) to write it in someone else’s voice.

I'm calling for an immediate moratorium on the really overdue library book story. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

When Jefferson founded UVA, he was disappointed that the students were not the Jeffersonian citizens he had hoped for. They drank. The gambled. They dueled. They horsewhipped the headmaster. (This is true.) Jefferson disappointed us too. This democracy thing is disappointment all the way down.

Let's not forget: Our best thinking got us here. (Not to @bsky.app. To the end of civil society.)

"Lewis Allan Reed, the son of a Long Island accountant and a beautiful typist, died of liver failure on October 27, 2013. I remember exactly where I was." The final episode of LRN. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e40-lou-re...

A look back at how the truth rate went negative, in today's LRN. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e17-true-enough-llc

He treated obscure knowledge as if it were common sense and common sense with suspicion. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e16-lou-reeds-nephew-on-gambling

Ya'll still here? https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e15-the-dream-of-lou-reeds-nephews

Imagine never attending another flea market or seeing another piece of jewelry made of typewriter keys. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e14-the-dream-of-lou-reeds-nephew

“Has it ever occurred to you that the end might not be so near?” https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e13-lou-reeds-nephew-on-the-end-of

Today, LRN on the beach. "The sun doesn’t cheer me up. It defeats me. It asks so much more than I can deliver." https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e12-lou-reeds-nephews-narrator-takes

Lou Reed's Nephew takes place in 2013 and today's episode revisits the snark/smarm debate. Simpler--though not entirely irrelevant--times. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e11-lou-reeds-nephew-on-snark

LRN would have liked it here. "I mean, a New York Times story must take at least twenty minutes to write. I can weigh in on it in about twenty seconds. There’s no way the media creators will be able to keep up.” https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e10-lou-reeds-nephew-takes-up-media

“This thing you are doing, is it an art or a business?” Lou Reed’s Nephew asked. Test yourself in today's episode. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e9-lou-reeds-nephew-on-art-and-business

I still only have 7 followers here, but the engagment makes it feel more like 12. Here's today's LRN. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e8-lou-reeds-nephew-on-poorly-run?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post

I wrote about the performers' strike at Medieval Times, which has been going on for five months. @MTunitedCA is a small bargaining unit compared to the WGA, hotel workers, UPS, etc., but highly dedicated & worthy of more attention

I only have 7 followers here but you all say that's, like, 7 million on Twitter so here's the latest installment of LRN. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e7-lou-reeds-nephew-takes-a-day-off

I'd like to take the occasion of my arrival on this exciting new social media platform to reflect on the fact that we once made a whole movie about a guy who made up a few things at The New Republic.

Do you know why baby names have gotten so strange? Find out in today's LRN. https://www.loureedsnephew.com/p/e6-beybi-authority-for-life

i told you about this when it came out but Jim is here now, at @loureedsnephew.bsky.social so you can follow his serialized novel. he's around 6 chapters in and each one is short and witty and i don't want to do my usual thing of ending with a self-deprecating joke because it's someone else's work!