This last episode has been my favorite so far. That mirror shot was fantastic.

Seeta Devi was one of India's first film stars, starting in silent movies like A Throw of Dice (1929)

checking in on X the Everything App

add Mobley to the Enemies List

yes sirrrrrrr

my president (Cade Cunningham) will save us all and heal a wounded nation

I'm saying!

this has been a rough quarter for sure

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

s/o LeVert

Crin's Castle

Sir Charles will always have a place in my heart for speaking out in support of trans people during that bad faith, astroturfed bud lite smear campaign

wow Harris and Tyson were really about to go at it huh

Disaster Mitigation Protip: When considering a message of contrition and promise to get help after your drunken bigoted tirade, check to see whether your handle is “TastyBrew1976”

Harden egregious

Prince and Spike Lee sitting court side at a Knicks game (1998)

nice to have a pregame tribute to Collins and Clarke

In order to have valid ideas about music, you must HAVE CREDENTIALS, i.e. be a "very skilled" musician—we're really still doing this, folks?? Do I have to burn my Gary Giddins library now? What about my Complete Musical Criticism of George Bernard Shaw, Vols. 1 & 2?

I'm sorry what? RFK Jr's vape spokesman is named Rich Danker ??? why am I trapped in a Thomas Pynchon novel www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

kahlenberg scolded me last year for describing the trump administration’s antj-DEI campaign as anti-integration, to give you a sense of his ability to see reality.

It should be pointed out over and over that besides Bari Weiss being completely obsessed with turning CBS into a television version of her anti-woke, pro-Israel blog, she is also extremely incompetent at the nuts and bolts of running a network. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

This is so fucked up. Years of scholarship stolen and resold on Amazon, without a word of the archaeologists and historians who did the labour, the interpretations…the actual work. Dystopian stuff. theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

Domo been rapping v. well for a minute. youtu.be/Kw3HOfM_Oms

Fact that no one mentions reparations when they’re floating “Woke 2” is one of those things I typically laugh to myself about but it’s only funny in a dark sardonic way.

this is the only good piece that's been written about this stupid "debate" (and def dovetails with my previous takes on how the climate *is* the economy)

Farewell to one of the most influential anime composers of all time: Ohno Yuji, the jazz pianist whose music for the Lupin III franchise is amongst the most iconic in Japan, has passed. Ohno was 84 years old, and had continued performing with his band, Yuji Ohno & Lupintic Six, until quite recently.

streets need @benmathislilley.bsky.social back in the blogging game for this one

Banger youtu.be/xyPdFcdpqG8

So moved to find There Is No Place for Us on TIME's "25 Books That Capture This American Moment." It was chosen by the great Luis Alberto Urrea, who writes that the book is "a lighthouse of witness warning of the conscious and cynical use of power... a legacy that will haunt this country forever."

In 2021 I began writing to artist Tony Stella. He and I developed a cool relationship discussing many things including his teenage years as a graff writer to his love for soul music. Last week it was reported that Stella had died suddenly. He and I had exchanged our last notes a few days before.

good morning, fam alice coltrane TURIYA & RAMAKRISHNA youtu.be/QUMuDWDVd20?...

And yes, they just found remains of some of the child victims not too long ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kV...

Over at my periodic Substack 'Please Take My Advice,' I went deep on the Kinks' 'Muswell Hillbillies' 55th anniversary. Topics include style of paranoia, Ray Davies' endless elegance, encroaching techno-feudalism, diet fads and shapes of things to come. theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/but-in-her...

salute to a true poaster, one who could righteously kick off geopolitical tensions

So they're getting rid of Daryl Morey but keeping Nick Nurse? Why?

NO BUENO

my god, how many NBA deaths are we going to have today? RIP to an absolute king

R.I.P. producer Jack Douglas: ultimateclassicrock.com/jack-douglas...

Spotted at Brooklyn's Record Grouch: OG/early '70s copy of Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda, paperback ed. of Tom Constanten's 'Between Rock and Hard Places' memoir, and a promo copy of Ornette Coleman's "Friends And Neighbors" 45 on Flying Dutchman. Other gems online www.recordgrouch.com

yeah he came twice a day all right

One of these days I'm going to post a magazine blurb of the weird infomercial Pras recorded as a result of his first fraud conviction (back in the 90s). None of the Jho Low stories mentioned it!

The company is recalling nearly 3,800 robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle entered floodwaters on a San Antonio road and was washed into a creek. bit.ly/4wmkV3G

same, the only exception being my ongoing campaign to elect Cade Cunningham as the next president

Take this and apply it to sports media. Still works.

between this and the OPEC withdrawal, Abu Dhabi is really feelin itself these days www.wsj.com/articles/the...

Social Media in 2035

sure man, why not, go with god www.wsj.com/finance/jho-...

HavinMotion was well on his way to becoming the "Kanye West of Crank" before his untimely murder last month at just 22. In memoriam, @svetz.bsky.social celebrates the DMV star's catalogue: from paranoid narrative storytelling to sample crank to tender love songs. www.powmag.net/p/havinmotio...

How on earth can a new Deep Purple record be this entertaining in 2026? youtu.be/SoSr0sStFaE?...

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...