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our new, supple mayor

JP does not miss

I browsed Margaret Thatcher's latest estate sale in pursuit of haunted objects johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/shopping-m...

I’m sorry I’m incredibly nosy and would love to hear what recent thing happened with Twitter/X can someone fill me in

“Yellow lights are blinking and our democracy is issuing troubling metallic belches from its mechanical guts and the most recent technological innovation of my noble race is a Magic 8 Ball that’s making people forget how to read (some people claim to be dating it).” @jpbrammer.bsky.social

I wrote about the rapture that didn't happen, why we fantasize about the end of the world, and make the case for "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz being one of our great apocalyptic texts johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/dynamite-b...

I wasn't aware that the TikTok Christian Rapture stuff last week stemmed from someone who claimed to have been visited by Jesus in a Kroger parking lot. I think I'm rededicating myself to the American Revelations in Parking Lots beat.

This whole piece is so good, but this part just punched me in the feels. Way too familiar. 🫠

I mean, go read the whole thing, but this part in particular hit me like a sack of bricks

sent this to my sis, she said she does not know how to describe how reading it made her feel but that she wanted to go lie down

oof

Granted i was already not in a great mood before i read this, but reading it did almost make me burst out crying in public. 10/10.

this came about because I love the em dash and wanted to make something with it that AI couldn't lol

❤️❤️ in keeping with the "horror movie trope" in the piece, it was weirdly easy to write 😅

it's an honor just to be nominated as Swedish

damn this hit me like a ton of bricks

"Ritual plays a major role in the life of an anxious person. The poor creature is ruled by a fate obvious only to themselves." Will be thinking about this for a long time:

I love @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s writing on so many levels, but I especially recommend it to fellow teachers. Just, read this

as a fellow anxious/traumatized-from-a-young-age-calling-home-sick-every-day-who-also-loved-to-draw-on-copious-amounts-of-computer-paper-queer-child, this article was a fantastic and validating read.

“Such are the rantings and ravings of the conspiracy theorist holding a cardboard sign in my amygdala.” @jpbrammer.bsky.social going for the jugular in one sharp line

Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)

ohhh this fucked me up today (complimentary). thank you JP.

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

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