1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Predator: Badlands was so freaking great.

I don't watch Reality TV, but life takes weird turns. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

Dear #SkateTwitter: Years ago Mike Carroll ollied this massive double hubba at the entrance to UCLA. It's one of those "way gnarlier in person" spots. I know there was an ad with a still shot and footage of it in some video, probably a Transworld thing, but cannot seem to find. Anyone know it?

I need #SkateTwitter to discuss: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...

I don’t schedule vacations around the trade deadline because that’s ridiculous. What if the Giants make a big trade? It’s better to schedule vacations for mid-June, when nothing happens.

The mix of Padilla and immigration politics is giving this old school Californian huge 187 vibes.

Really sucks that Manny's was hit by vandals. The targeting of him and his business—which does more to promote and support progressive causes and authors and educate the public than just about anything in SF—is a fringe and poisonous disinformation campaign. missionlocal.org/2025/06/mann...

Ted...sorry, Dr. Barrow is up in the Times today circling around that famous Ocean Howell point re: skateboards as brooms of gentrification www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

Skateboarding? Check. Urban Planning? Check. Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check. Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

The more I play with AI the more I'm convinced that the best and most legally defensible way to make money in the future will be to buy valuable land and do nothing with it. Oh, wait.

Good times with Bret Anthony Johnston, my skate homie and acclaimed novelist. Growing up, I thought writers and skaters were the two coolest kinds of people on all of planet earth. Now I'm 47 getting a doubles clip with an author I admire. An ordinary day is extraordinary when you appreciate it.

My Switch 2 experience: 45 minutes of pressing "Place your order" on the Target website and having it not go through. Then my card got canceled, it got removed from my cart, and now my daughter will be crying in the AM.

You should be watching Dark Winds. Tonight's episode is indeed my favorite episode of television this year. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I wrote about how we need more sprawl and the word itself is sorely misunderstood. It took me a while to get here, but I got here. Find your hate-read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

I know I'm a broken record here but this newest and final season of Bosch is why TV was invented as a medium. Like a Miller Lite on a hot day. Perfection.

Still processing that this is the final season of Bosch. I thought they had at least 12 more.

I'm not sure whether to be flattered or outraged. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

My five years memory: On March 9, 2020, I accomplished my life's goal of writing a book and getting my name on the marquee at Powell's. The next day, March 10, I flew home as the world shut down. Down to the wire!

Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past. The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Silo is a show about living in an underground apartment complex. Paradise is a show about living in an underground suburb. Because I am a housing nerd, I called creators of the two works to ask them about density versus sprawl in a post-apocalyptic world. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think of this Onion article from a decade ago each time I get a thumbs up emoji. theonion.com/stone-hearte...

I just went to FB for the first time in years and was delivered an ad about a jet that goes "the speed of light."

Dear #SkateTwitter: I have been having horrible ankle and tibia tendonitis. It doesn't flare after skating (weirdly) but after long walks (hills esp). I got nerd shoes and insoles. In physio. Need to stretch/get a routine. But does anyone use an ankle brace while skating and if so which one?

I can't believe they got Glory Hole in the headline but apparently it's been a nickname for a while? Anyway, great spot. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I just subscribed to a Substack and got automatically subscribed to 10 billion more and now want nothing to do with Substack. I'm late to everything in the Internet so assume this has long been a thing?

I read "The High Cost of Free Parking" in 2007 or so and immediately pitched a story on it even though I was working for a WSJ lifestyle section that wanted nothing to do with policy. Few things radicalized me so easily and completely. RIP to the GOAT. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/08/d...

But... are they staffing??

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

I watched this show Paradise last night and best I can tell it's a moral parable about the lives lost to R1 zoning.

Toronado is an SF institution and one of the best beer bars in America... but also has the goddamn crankiest bartenders in the biz. ("What's that like?" "Why don't you just order it.") www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

So cool to see this NYT double byline with two of my all-time favorites! @conordougherty.bsky.social & @heatherknightsf.bsky.social Great story idea with strong Bay Area ties. 🌁 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

I have come to a place in which I have decided that it's possible to love LA and hate the Dodgers. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

Amazing that California has spent literally 3 years planning a $10M e-bike subsidy program, which then sold out in less than an hour. Meanwhile the state has given drivers, mostly wealthy ones, over $1 billion dollars for electric cars.

Couldn't be happier to make this purchase!

One thing I can say after becoming a semi-regular Waymo user is that self-driving technology has forever changed the feeling of farting in a car.

I want to read a deeply reported business piece on why baseball contracts keep increasing even though the sport's popularity is so obviously fading. I suspect it has something to do with monopoly and live media desperation but I don't understand the space and its ins and outs well enough.

On the surface, the "Easy Rawlins" books are old-school crime novels. They are also, more subtly, a story of race, mobility and the unique role of real estate in the American economy. Love this story from @conordougherty.bsky.social (🎁 link): www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

I came late to Easy Rawlins - I read them in advance of meeting Walter Mosley for the Edna O'Brien Story but I too was immediately struck by the economics of Rawlins's quest. Great and interesting piece by @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

A terrific article by @conordougherty.bsky.social. I like especially the human touches: the journalist’s interests; the author’s details and life he keeps wisely hidden; “I’m always early”; and the interior thoughts and macroeconomic context of Easy Rawlins. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

Really interesting article - especially right on the heels of teaching Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted,” TNC’s “Case for Reparations,” and Katherine Boo’s “After Welfare” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

The cover story by @conordougherty.bsky.social in Sunday Business: How, over the course of 16 crime novels, Walter Mosley used Easy Rawlins to tell the story of how, for many Black Americans, smalltime landlording has been the pathway to the middle class. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

Can we edit Skeets?

This is a fantastic piece, using fiction to explore how landlording has changed over time, and exploring the sense that the housing market is still headed in a very scary direction.

"I want to use Easy Rawlins's fictional real estate empire as a vehicle to talk about the undercover wealth of small landlords." For years I have approached skeptical editor after skeptical editor with that pitch. Finally, the great @vtitunik.bsky.social said yes. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

maybe my favorite enhanced byline ever from @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

Research for an upcoming story that is one of the weirder things I've attempted.

I wanted to eat more protein and got an air-fryer. Boom.