The failing NY Times won’t let me see their list of best illustrated books of the year😡 (Usually a list of the most visually appealing picture books for adults with a certain pretentious disposition)

‘Change the channel, Marge’

I hate that we're supposed to trudge through year after year after year acting like we don't already know the most effective solutions to social problems because some people don't like it. We know the best way to treat homelessness, addiction, crime, poverty, hunger, and bigotry but won't do it.

100% tax rate on any cent over, let’s say, 200k?

Helen Andrews, or what if the killer from Don’t Look Now went to debate club instead.

Wasn’t he cut from that last JJ Abrams one?

They hate immigrants who actually believe in this country’s ideals.

Back in Oregon my wife worked for an environmental non profit taking care of a river. This involved an annual trip up into the mountains with a truck full of dead salmon to toss them in the stream as a wan attempt at exactly this. (I still remember the smell)

I love a book that can make a precocious kid absolutely insufferable at family gatherings (complimentary)

This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)

This good stuff right here is why boomers are so desperate to stop millenials from entering the political arena. They know we are gonna start doing good things as soon as we get in there, and they would rather destroy the world and die rich.

Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

She’s really raising the bar unrealistically high for us illustrators and cartoonists with spouses who have regular jobs

There are approximately 800 languages spoken in New York City, and over 5 million people speak something besides English at home. The Times thinks it’s important however to take issue with a dental plosive following a bilabial nasal, because the discomfort of English monoglots is ‘pure linguistics’?

Just got these two, and it’s interesting to see how well one of them works in comparison to how badly the other doesn’t

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Going to guess Tapper has some shithead kids he’s basing this on.

Just putting this here so I can include this magnificent beast if I do another ice age book.

Ja, je kan me hol op

Sure would love it if men who dated teenagers would refrain from proposing genital inspections on highschoolers.

Cries in Dutch

Chonky cat and slinky cat

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

I’m sorry, but Star Trek exists because of women writing horny zines about mr Spock in the seventies, not because of a bunch of guys arguing that Scotty’s line about buying a boat disproves that Star Trek is space communism.

Which of these people is a working-class voter? Which is an identity politics voter? The conventional wisdom's answers to those two questions is the root of much confusion about electoral politics in the US and Europe these days.

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

i think it's important for children to spend a lot of time bored out of their minds visiting relatives in very old houses crammed full of old family stuff and forced to examine the old stuff due to there being nothing else to do and it concerns me how people in my family keep moving into new builds

The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional. You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.

It has been impressive to see how A.I. slop has truly proven to be the instrument of only the most repellent pieces of filth all around though -- A.I. is the love language of scum

This is because his own kids keep ending up hating him

Once upon a time a composer in Hollywood could just write a piece like this for a 12 minute intro to a movie.

Got a new bookshelf to hold my picture books, art books, comics and zines, and reworked my desk to fit into it. Very excited to make stuff here!

So many stars at the sheep and wool festival, and also noted character actor Walton Goggins.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

This is a Cramblin Duvet client if ever I saw one

Tree

Paperbacks that fit in your pocket are the superior format for novels.

Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day today and every day. From MANHATTAN: Mapping the Story of an Island (Abrams, 2019). #mapmonday #illustration #kidlitart #indigenouspeoplesday

It’s been really heartening to see yard signs for Platner everywhere we’ve gone in Maine the past week.

"Hey Peter Thiel, here's a film that is actually intended as a Christ allegory. It's called Robocop and it's about how much you suck."

Who wants to give me a big sack of money to buy and reno this place? I promise I’ll turn the barn into a artist’s residency and studio co-op.

Had an absolutely amazing meal last night which was made even better when I found out it was made by the chef who refused to sell pierogis to Alan Dershowitz this summer.

Aw, he got a participation trophy

Not bad here!

Valatie, from Dutch ‘valletje’, pronounced somehow as ‘va-lay-shuh’

In Maine, wondering how never to leave.

Give me a new X-files reboot, don’t change a single thing, except that we know this is Mulder’s boss now.