“‘To grieve in peace’ is a common phrase but it’s a peculiar one, is it not? A contradiction, a demanding, even unachievable stasis state.” Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days. harpers.org/archive/2025...

watching "Bad Day at Black Rock" and it's very small town with a dark secret

Voted and 5 of the poll workers are people I run into every day when we're all walking our dogs on the 6:30 AM shift.

Enlightened and Wild at Heart are two of my favorites. Diane Ladd (esp paired with Laura Dern) did good work.

Very exciting! Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives is coming out next week! #MargaretAtwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Costumes so good, they needed to confirm identity

saw this in previews a few weeks ago. If you get a shot, take it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/t...

Making the most of my insomnia and reading Angela Flournoy's 2nd novel, The Wilderness. Like the structure- each section is divided by year and by voice, a different female friend is centered each time.

Nobody smokes better than Robert Mitchum (Watching Out of the Past)

Im watching a friend's puppy while he is at the ER, and it has come to this. Fences. Agatha in the chair like a little gargoyle, and Luther doing his best If this gate weren't here, I'd... Meanwhile, the puppy is finally asleep after 3 hrs.

Had a few flights over the long weekend and read both "These Days" by Lucy Caldwell and "Dominion" by Addie E. Citchens. Perfect flight books/under 300 pages.

going to see Neko Case this week and just read that she currently composing the musical theater adaptation of 'Thelma & Louise.'

In the wake of this excellent report by the New York Times's Matthieu Aikins into a culture of lawlessness that has suffused parts of US Special Operations Command and some of its vets I was left wondering how many with such broken SOF CVs have been recruited into ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

"We have robbed the past of its privacy" has hooked me. Looks like I will be reading another McEwan. Thought I'd tapped out after 4. open.spotify.com/episode/0vHO...

Have had H.O.O.D stuck in my head every since I saw the Kneecap verdict

I was here for the worst start of Skenes career. Please clap.

Uber driver wants to talk to me about advantages of AI. Talks, talks some more. I bring up water consumption, and a moment later, he turns on the radio. Scene.

Flight book. The Benefactors/Wendy Erskine.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

rewatching Enlightened, and Laura Dern is so reliably good in this, everything. Also the show where I learned Luke Wilson can act.

you knew they'd find a way to blame women for autism

When you start packing.

My heart when that dog entered La Vuelta with the chair attached to his leash. Never seen that before.

"Plenty of new TV novels, alas, betray a sincere admiration for television and the people who make it." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

Watched Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One w/out knowing much about it, so hearing Miles Davis & particularly music from In a Silent Way took me by surprise.

Great read on a terrible situation by Jasper Craven here: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Is this a copperhead? My neighbor just sent this to me, and it is in their yard. I need summer to end.

my neighborhood is suddenly littered with women over 40 sporting a weighted vest for morning walks. This one caught on as quickly as the awful & oversized white modern farmhouse

And that's why you get Grealish.

watched Kneecap, and holy shit. That was a great film.

Texas State Rep Ann Johnson has had enough!

"I consider myself more Mississippian than American." DOMINION author Addie E. Citchens was interviewed about what it means to call Mississippi home and the setting for her new novel:

the new season of It's Always Sunny is quite good

without ever having heard the phrase, knew exactly what a teen meant when I overheard her describe her look in a pic as Christian Girl Autumn

Anas al-Sharif was Gaza’s mockingbird. He lived a life of courage, truth and love for his family. Israel killed him. We must remember who he was, and why they wanted him silenced, writes @kshaheen.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

Loved Andrew Haigh's film, 45 Years. Perfect casting and that wonderful kind of slow and quiet. Fucking devastating though.

Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this albino squirrel has managed to live for years. Just stays on a large school campus with another albino squirrel. That's a pretty great adaptation.

One of the books I'm reading is the biography of REM (Peter Ames Carlin's The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.) & found out that there's a 2008 Austin City Limits performance. Watching it now.

Unexpected moment in Tour de France: viewers are invited to watch as an artist works on a painting of Pogačar & he's focused on slow brushstrokes across the crotch

my mom started watching soccer a year or so ago and still believes a player is injured when he goes down. We're covering dives during this Everton match.

Love that he is in a writing group. Loved the Arsenal era he was a part of despite how often they beat Everton.

"He showed us at every turn what it is possible to do — what it is possible to build — in prose, how it is possible to make a monument of each sentence.... Like everything else he wrote, On Writers and Writing is one continuous dazzlement." Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's literary criticism.

Watched the 2 new episodes of It's Always Sunny and noticed that Rob McElhenney has changed his name to Rob Mac. The episodes are solid, but that name change hurts.

Do you think this means my snake visitor has died?

Happy Tour de France 2025 edition, the only good thing about July

I list tactics every week in the last half of the Tuesday post in my newsletter (degenerateart.beehiiv.com). It has free and paid subscriptions; Tuesday posts are free. I do the same at the end of each episode of my podcast, "Next Comes What," which is also free (www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldN...).

Great book that I'm finally getting around to reading. Attaching Omar El Akkad's review from 2022 if interested. www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/b...

Everything is terrible, so I decided in January to spend all my disposable income on local and Broadway theater (highly recommend Oh, Mary! and Purpose), live music, and books. Have 4 more bands booked & just purchased another 3 books. These fuckers aren't going to steal everything.