Every Pern book should have a figure in the midst of an exotic landscape wearing bandoliers — if not what is the point of anything???

I was totally on board with the sentiment of this post when I first saw it, but now I’ve learned they’ve given ANN MCCAFFREY this treatment and I am incandescent with rage

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

Realism defined as how faithful they are to my second hand experience of one single classics department in 1989

I have ten million things I’d like to say about Helen DeWitt but I’m saving it for column I intend to pitch where I, the daughter of a classics professor, review novels and books involving classics for their realism

From $1,000 locker-room dinners to $96 selfies: How the Maple Leafs changed under Keith Pelley

I propose that hockey teams start charging separately for the periods and marketing it as an initiative to make games more accessible. Also if anyone wants to hire me as a sports exec I am available.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/712...

Marc Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar except that every instance of honorable man is replaced instead by poor critter

On the topic of sleep I am very much a parody of a heiress in a movie, if sleep hours were dollars

Last night my smart watch gave me a high sleep score for getting 6.5 hours of sleep and I’m like no no, you don’t understand that may be good enough for the average citizen but not for me, I simply can’t live like that

A truly perfect blog

I have a mutual friend with a buddy I went to high school with and said buddy sent our mutual friend a group photo from our junior year prom that included me and I guess we really have abandoned all social norms now haven’t we?

About four months ago I, a person who had been historically bad at drawing, started drawing an object in my house every morning and it was very interesting and now I’ve stopped doing it and I’m really really enjoying not doing it any more

It takes one cross-country plane, a train, a ferry, then another hour or so by car to reach the writer Lindy West. I had read plenty about how remote her home is, but only by sitting shotgun with West in her girlfriend’s maroon Hyundai Elantra did I understand just how far she was from even a gas station. When I had asked, weeks before my arrival, if I could take an Uber to her house near Bainbridge Island, Washington, from Seattle’s Amtrak station, she laughed at me.* I’ve been thinking a lot about this cabin in the woods since I read her new memoir, Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane, which came out this week. It is the homestead for West’s polyamorous relationship, the news of which went modestly viral in 2022. Today just West is at home—well, she and her dog, Barold “Barry” Saxophone.

This is an insane way to describe Bainbridge Island.

Cuba’s power grid collapses in third nationwide blackout amid US oil blockade Network breakdowns compounded by daily blackouts of up to 12 hours caused by fuel shortages

i guess i don't understand how this isn't crime-against-humanity stuff. or does that simply not matter anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

There’s the unsettling feeling when the algorithm gets things wrong, but right now the algorithm is mostly showing me things I want to see (Taiwan tourist attractions, behind the scenes interviews about Laurence of Arabia) and that’s much worse

"So I arrived already ashamed of myself and full of anger and contempt for everyone else. And I couldn’t even longboard."

Spending my time imagining trad baby content where the baby is like, babies were actually meant to be hung from walls while their parents worked, that’s the soft life

This is reinforcing Max Read’s thesis from 2024 maxread.substack.com/p/people-pre...

There is something deeply dispiriting about caring if your pepperoni is cured while you quaff a Prime Cherry Freeze

Something called Lunchly on the store of a supermarket for 5.99 it advertised that it contains Prime Hydration cherry freeze and Mr Beast feastables milk crunch bar as well as an uncured pepperoni and cheese pizza that it calls “the pizza”

Cursed lunchables

Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

Also I think it’s a genuinely great book, I’d like to be clear about that

It is the edition where the picture of Cleo is on the back in the manner of the celebrity memoirs of the day

Cannot resist the urge to say that I have a copy and there is no chance in hell that I am selling it

Starting this Saturday in the Bay! My intro to fiction workshop, which unlike many workshops has led to positive results: short fiction published in paying venues, novels, etc.

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Please reskee!

Truffaut puking and shitting right now

Love to read a page a month of five different books

Content that is extremely relatable to me

Can I be the next dog that predicts the outcome of sports games?

This is the equivalent of being like, oh Auston Matthews is on Team USA?