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Once when I was on chemo and wore a baseball cap to cover my patchy scalp, they wouldn’t let me sit in the main dining room at Houston’s Steakhouse.

Sometimes I wonder if my opinions of AI are well founded, but then someone will insist I look at “good” AI-generated art that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen, or some other AI evangelist cretin will say something like the below.

This is a very uplifting episode, as there's nothing more satisfying than learning someone you dislike is prominently featured in the Epstein files.

*Jeff Foxworthy voice* If you have a significant rash-like injury on your neck…

Ah, a human centipede if you will.

The antisemitic blood libel: it's been around for a thousand years but the Epstein Files are offering kindling for another flare up, and these flare ups usually lead to terrible violence against Jews. www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

Artists, it’s time to get to work. As soon as my new bottle of fountain pen ink gets delivered, I’m writing a poem that, once he reads it, will make Donald Trump shit himself to death.

Busy making magazines! Issue 19 is finally here! www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/issue-19

Here's some books we took onto the roundabout over the last few months: The Stories of John Cheever The Horse Knows the Way, by John O'Hara Short Stories: Five Decades, Irvin Shaw The Complete Peanuts Volume 3 1955-1956 youtu.be/1BnIcmBz3oc

My five month old son has now seen Caligula: The Ultimate Cut.

John Roberts just cleaned up on Polymarket.

Jandek should join the Traveling Wilburys.

Can’t prove it, but I think they’re putting fewer bags in the rolls of poop bags.

I'll be happy when Trump finally takes his trip across the rainbow bridge. But Lieu is talking about summaries of ludicrous bullshit from deranged callers to the FBI tip line. This is disingenuous grandstanding on his part and does nothing but muddy the waters when it comes to credible crimes.

As someone who has been in arts education an embarrassingly long time, I know there’s always been a lot of tension and animosity between artists who MAKE things and wannabe artists who are desperate TO HAVE MADE a thing. But AI enthusiast culture has really lathered these losers up.

Step one of this recipe is instructions for making the “wolf tooth potato strips” but it says you can skip the step if you’re using crinkle cut fries…

Point taken, but I guess I’m also a ghoul.

Friendship expert?

Why has no one on the subway made it past page 25 of their book?

CHRIST (on the cross): You’re all just jealous.

I’m way behind on my magazines.

Hello! I wrote (what I think is) a very fun piece about The Washington Post, THE POST, and most specifically ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN for Foreign Policy. This link should launch you over the paywall. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/12/a...

Absurd. However, the wheels shouldn’t be attached to the seat and should instead be floating at its sides.

As usual, I agree with Nigella Lawson. Helen DeWitt is one of our best living writers. The Last Samurai made me cry. Lightning Rods made me laugh out loud. Just finished Your Name Here, and it made me feel like an absolute idiot (compliment).

Not mentioned often enough in this debate: Any form of required voter identification that costs money to obtain (driver’s license, even a debit card) is tantamount to a poll tax.

I don’t recommend this to anyone who has not been certified firmly sane by a medical professional or religious figure.

I went to one of my local used bookstores yesterday evening and said the secret passphrase “Book Bowl” in exchange for a 40% discount on a mass market paperback edition of Stanislaw Lem’s Tales of Pirx the Pilot.

If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

We were walking down Ventura Blvd. and saw a woman approaching in a very distinctive hat. The hat was noticeable from several blocks away. As the woman grew nearer, I realized she was Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes, and this is the hat she was wearing.

My thoughts on MELANIA are in this Foreign Policy's weekend edition. Here is a gift link. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/m...

In the good old days, a handsome milk man would come to your house every day and make love to your wife. Now, it’s just an Amazon driver asking your wife to hold his piss bottle while he goons.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Important.

He should ask Grok what to do. AI is very good at coming up with permanent solutions to depression.

I summarized this story in a comment the other day, but I'll go into more detail here, in what's known as a "thread." I once had an hour long conversation with the legendary comic book artist Neal Adams about his theory that the earth is hollow.

My goal is to be so cool my child could never mistake me for being lame, and I think that’s achievable.

Many of our recent episodes have proven quite erotic, and this is no exception.

Dumping this on a Friday night since I'm an expert at marketing. I posted a very stupid piece of very short fiction to my website. www.brianthompsonwriter.com/stepdaddy/

Thanks to the release of the Epstein emails, it is now uncool to be borderline illiterate.

Important breaking news thread.

The only thing Don Lemon deserves to be jailed for is his old podcast with Chris Cuomo.

I enjoy these very long videos of a man cleaning his vintage paperback books. youtu.be/ZT5JdY6gyw8?...

My wife asked if I think anyone else talks about the Frugal Gourmet as much as we do.