Whether you're a person or a company, the question is always the same: if literally anyone could generate what you're selling, why go to you for it?

Hard to sum up the reasons I love John Ashbery, but starting a poem with "Holy Grail, Batman!" is a decent microcosm.

I have great respect for obscure sports, but the uphill skiing seems more like a masochist Nordic kink that broke containment. Full-body lutefisk.

Haven't heard anything, but thanks for watching! Appreciate the message.

Threw hammer today for the first time since tearing my rotator cuff a year ago. And my soul breathes again. Get yourself a weird hobby. Absolutely essential.

Billionaires, in a darkened, opulent drawing room, embers from the fireplace throwing a faint glow across their shadowed faces, telling John Wick-style ghost stories about @pablo.show

Just grabbed all three sets and they are beautiful, awesome, and strange! Truly inspiring work.

IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu In the chimerical trend that is Labubumatchadubaichocolate, nothing is ever too extra. But those who embrace the aesthetic know that the only way out is further in.

my title for this @newyorker.com essay is: Labubu C'est Moi www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

If you're in LA, highly recommend seeing Guy Branum's one-man show Be Fruitful. Saw it last night: hilarious, unapologetically cerebral, ultimately touching. Next show is August 31st at the Lyric Hyperion. www.eventbrite.com/e/guy-branum...

Those are the invisible ants of power. You need those.

As someone who was raised Catholic from the suburbs (with Chicago-born parents), there is nothing I need to hear more than this. My grandmother would be absolutely levitating right now. Except…he’s not Polish. Nobody’s perfect.

me and @anamariecox.bsky.social's new pod is here. on our first episode we speak with the magnficient @pftompkins.bsky.social about the struggle and the joy of staying creative when everything around you says give up. it's @pastduepodcast.com and it starts now

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Admiral Ackbar of Star Wars in a yellow Burger King baseball hat with the caption, "Your meal is not fully whopperational."

I thought of this. Now it's your problem.

Graduated from rotator cuff physical therapy. Discus still off the table, maybe for good. Think I can get back to hammer throwing pretty soon. Though my PT was openly taking bets from co-workers on how quickly I'd go too hard and be back. Which...unprofessional. Probably true, but unprofessional.

Sad day. This was always my go-to whenever I wanted to eat something that sounded like a shitty wizard.

Me, standing with smoking shotgun draped casually over a forearm, foot a bloody, blasted stump: Now let that be a lesson to you boys.

Seems counterintuitive, but actually consistent because it's also legal in the U.S. for a doctor to prescribe you a fusion nuke.

Daughter spilled milk everywhere but redeemed herself with the explanation: "Sorry. I was daydreaming pretty hard."

How Wilco’s Massive ‘A Ghost Is Born’ Box Set Complicates the Album’s Harrowing Myth Jeff Tweedy thought he was going to die while making the 2004 art-rock masterpiece. But there’s more to this album’s story than tortured-artist tropes.

wrote about one of my all-time faves, tortured artists, near-death dramatics, fundamentals, permutations, and the eight versions of "spiders (kidsmoke)" on the a ghost is born super deluxe edition

A vampire video game adaptation of Chekhov called Unclevania

There's no better feeling than comforting your child after a nightmare, feeling their heartbeat slow as they cuddle, finally safe, which is why we have the Saw movies playing on repeat 24 hours a day.

So says this comedy writer. Wakka wakka!

The endpoint of an ideology of pure, narrow self-interest that not only can’t see the forest for the trees, but denies the forest exists. He literally cannot understand that having a stable international order of allies is itself beneficial not just to those allies, but to Americans as well.

Man. When I first moved to LA and didn't know anybody, when I couldn't sleep I would drive miles out of my way to go sit in there at 2am, order a side of bacon and some coffee and gently nurse my grudges. An oasis.

In the middle of Book 2!

Glad you recognize the honor.

This got our ultimate household compliment, which is that I started watching, and after ten minutes I turned it off. Because I knew my wife would be mad if I watched something that funny without her. We both loved it.

That should be "The Power Fantasy." Continue about your business.

Things I have enjoyed lately:

Comfort Beyond God's Foresight: @iankarmel.bsky.social
Service Model: @aptshadow.bsky.social
Same Bed Different Dreams: Ed Park
Power Fantasy: @kierongillen.bsky.social, @casparw.bsky.social
Primary Beans
Severance (still in Season 1)
Infusing mezcal with serrano

Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls...