The most pleasant push notification I've gotten in days. @jpbrammer.bsky.social

Yaaaaaayyy my essay on Meers Restaurant was part of this package! A silver medal! It's real I bit into it www.eater.com/press-room/9...

WOW this frame!!! coral really makes it sing

“The Not Deer is a recently-invented cryptid, a creature of TikTok, and a chilling reminder that we’re forgetting how to read and write.” I enjoyed this.

At long last I have published my Cryptid Tier List johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cryptid-ti...

I said I'd unsubscribe if the Diva Flatwoods wasn't in the top tier... thankfully you understood the vision

thank u

livid at the exclusion of cunty Alabama White Thang

This is a really fun list! The first section is free, but I recommend subscribing for the rest!

One thing I miss about running my online trivia league is that every year I got to write a couple questions about Cryptids

Finally! journalism for me!

Hodag mentioned!!

"Cryptozoology is the human endeavor to improve on God’s works by adding height and horns to creatures we consider deficient in such things."

At long last I have published my Cryptid Tier List johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cryptid-ti...

on top of everything else I've been bewitched by a handsome philosophy twink on youtube. I hate the long history of glass.

Internet, the sleeping brain can do so many things. I have a book called Samara coming out in a year or so. I dreamt that someone had graffiti’d “No one is excited for Samosa by John Paul Brammer!” on a bathroom wall. The statement was accompanied by holographic star stickers. Endorsements.

This is great reporting on what's happening in one county in western Nebraska, one where I've spent a lot of time, as people watch ICE raids and deportations in other places and expect it will get to Chase County sooner or later. So much better than NYT-style stories on rural places and politics.

say what you will about those rascally Danes, they know their way around lacquered wood!!!

yessss I'm not much of a Melee Man but am aware of aMSa and I find him aspirational in ways beyond Smash. wowow choosing to work with the worst tool available to you in a competitive setting, out of passion for a weird dinosaur in a Japanese game about Italians... beautiful....

something about the Ice Climbers disturbs me

It’s already bad enough that we have Devon Tower, someone else gotta get in on this weird shit too. Killer essay, also holy shit This Land Press is still alive

Editing JP on this was a delight, in case anybody was wondering

My embarrassment at the seriousness with which local government has been taking this slackjawed dipshit idea was slightly tempered by this excruciatingly well-written piece by fellow Okie (now in Brooklyn), JP Brammer.

the early bedtimes will continue until morale improves @jpbrammer.bsky.social

sorry not sorry, @jpbrammer.bsky.social is just about my favorite observer of american culture currently

"Aspiring Anew Generation" are three words I think to myself a lot because of Legends Tower and I think I've created a tulpa because of this

The audacity to claim they want to build the Burj Khalifa of the West in OKC to solve its housing crisis is spectacular.

So nice I read it twice

“I simply think that buildings should reflect the character of a place, like how Santa Fe is all adobe and how Dallas looks designed by a sentient Ford-F150.”

Same vibe.

¡Hola Class Action Lawsuit!

Even if you've never set foot in Oklahoma and likely never will, this is a hell of a read

"I hear you and I accept that you're dying" will unfortunately be bouncing around the walls of my cavernous noggin like a DVD VIDEO screensaver for several months

I did but I am beset by such useless visions

one of the best sentences

not being able to focus is making me very stressed and unhappy !

frankly!

This is some great writing, and there are so many excellent lines. My favorite is: "picture, if you would, a pancake with a yardstick plunged into it"

A perfect essay about a city I love 💗

Really well done piece. And, if you want to borrow a folksy euphemism for how flat Oklahoma is, people in Saskatchewan will tell you they watched their dog run away for 2 days

Treat yourself to a delightful story about a topic you didn’t know would be so interesting

YES

OKC OCK KC COCKKC COC OKK C COCK

I think this tower should exist and I think it should be exactly like the Burj Khalifa (attached to a mall, not really used for anything important, Tom Cruise has to climb it)

"I simply think that buildings should reflect the character of a place, like how Santa Fe is all adobe and how Dallas looks designed by a sentient Ford-F150."

Great piece

"I’m a stalwart proponent of massive, tornado-resistant domes that, if constructed, would give our state capital a unique and slightly unnerving sci-fi vibe, postcards of which would surely sell like hotcakes in the domed visitor center lovingly named, you guessed it, “The Welcome Dome!”"

I don’t care how delusional my home state is being, I’ll still take unnecessary potshots at Dallas!

lmao

Where were you, when they built the ladder to Heaven?