Wrote about Ballard's psychopathic hymn to the shadow modernities of the everyday threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...

. @jackwdenton.bsky.social J.G. Ballard's "Concrete Island" threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...

I co-reported this piece with Adam Platt—and upped my medical anxiety—on how dangerously salty restaurant food is

I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...

I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...

Hard to think of a vocal performance from this century that conveys the feeling of desperation nearly as well as the first verse of Young Thug's "Harambe"

A few short reviews by me on the 'stack threexthree.substack.com/p/the-perfec...

Great day to run this one back. Salute www.nts.live/shows/image-...

the real freaks were the people listening to WFMU over the phone. forget AM sound quality, imagine how bad the audio probably sounded jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...

One thing not based in reality? The Times' commitment to this completely made up definition of "based"

the name for his new era just hit me: Bonhomie Iver

call me old fashioned, but he’ll always be (Sandy) Puff Daddy to me

Periodic reminder that quite possibly the best song ever recorded is available to be listened to at any time, and no one can stop you www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...

YHWH Nailgun album feels like 20 mins of a guy punching you and himself in the face. Electrifying

I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news www.vulture.com/article/jess...

I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news www.vulture.com/article/jess...

I'm feeling like a real Chicago-style chump getting so excited about commuting to work in sunny, 45 degree weather, but the ten polar vortexes this winter have broken me. Won't be eating any Italian beef though

really good wikipedia malapropism

Beautiful and impressively candid essay on family from @britinacheng.bsky.social in NYmag's My Week in NY newsletter today: link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...

Really unique and moving film. The first scene is worth the price of admission alone www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...

Perhaps Republicans will squander their power by being too cringe

The translator of On the Calculation of Volume outed herself as Scottish when she used "swither" at least twice in the second book. Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term

This is cracking me up: "As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

"Join my Polycrisis?"

The Gulf of America. The American Abyss. The Gaping, Rapicious Maw of America.

📣📣WE HAVE A DEAL!📣📣 Last week, @nymagunion.bsky.social reached a tentative agreement with New York Magazine and Vox Media. We could not be prouder of our members who made it clear they were ready to withhold their labor if Vox Media didn’t meet them with a fair contract.

"I got higher / I got fake"

Really enjoyed this piece, which reminded me of a wonderful Cecil Taylor quote, on being unafraid to embrace his wide-ranging influences: “Everything I’ve lived, I am.”

This, by Becca Rothfield, is overall really good. Reminds me of something I once heard Adam Shatz say about feeling like an aestheticist among activists and an activist among aestheticists thepointmag.substack.com/p/on-the-old...

Sure would be great to close a busy week with a fair deal on a new contract!

Such an interesting conversation. One of the best tone glows I’ve read in a long time open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...

I return to this 2018 Deadspin post every few months. The [tersely] in particular is perfect deadspin.com/malcolm-glad...

This 2005 essay on Houston by the late, great Susan Alcorn is filled with incredible stuff like this, something out of Denis Johnson www.counterpunch.org/2005/12/17/t...

97% of @nymagunion.bsky.social members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @voxmedia.bsky.social. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

“This would be like losing our CBGB, an institution that gave birth to all this music style... In a few years from now, we’re gonna hear about this or that singer, or this or that musician who got their start at Terraza.” Read this piece and go support Terraza 7, one of NYC's finest venues!!!

Wrote about one of my favorite places in New York, a cultural and political crucible of Jackson Heights that is now fighting for its life. Among others, I heard from countless musicians, Jessica Ramos, the former booker for ABC No Rio, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez www.grubstreet.com/article/terr...

Gotta hand it to Nathan J. Robinson. Returning from being semi-canceled and his publication imploding by co-authoring a book with Chomsky (not dead yet!) is impressive fortitude www.thenation.com/article/cult...

This attitude is a recipe for knee-jerk takes and many of the worst aspects of content churn

I recognize not the point, but why was Jan 2020 more than twice as high as 2023 and 2024?

This is pretty good, although I retain a lot of sympathy for what Chris Hayes is worried about www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

oh yeah...totally...and much like the Romantics, broadly susceptible to fascism thepointmag.com/politics/las...

last night was a movie fr (LOGISTICS, 2012)

I support everyone in joining me in my long held position of being crank-level categorically against food delivery apps www.gq.com/story/quit-d...

Nonfictionalized: How Publishers Learned to Keep Worrying and Love the Colon

Hang on, we can't just move on from this... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/d...

T.J. Clark stares into the abyss, and punches it in the face: “Not derision but tactics.”

"But let’s face it: Allegorically is the least interesting way to read anything. Nothing ruins a question like an answer; the world is weirder than that." www.vulture.com/2019/02/what...