bts is that this was written before those last two weeks — I agree with you there

Never Hungover | ock sportello | Substack gold toilets & chandeliers. Click to read Never Hungover, by ock sportello, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

@ocksportello.bsky.social dropped a new Never Hungover and you guys should read it. He’s our fanbase’s national poet. (I think Lucas is our national reporter/analyst).

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oh man I wish, that was all one of those nets teenagers on twitter

plus: www.bkmag.com/2026/01/21/i...

The POW Best Rap Singles of 2025 | Passion of the Weiss You're now rocking with the best

and don't miss @donnacwrites.com on Mavi, @thobbsjourno.bsky.social on @mike-eagle.bsky.social, @ocksportello.bsky.social on Armand Hammer, @jackriedy.com on Mello Buckzz, @gardenerjams.bsky.social on Pink Siifu, @slgonsports.bsky.social on Ralfy, & @svetz.bsky.social on $ilkmoney, among many others

Why is Charlie Kirk's Face on the Michael Jordan No No No Meme? Plus AI, the busted algo, Your Name Here, and Armand Hammer's Mercy

little end of november blog on a bunch of stuff: charlie kirk face swaps, twitter falling apart, armand hammer’s mercy, and helen dewitt’s your name here www.neverhungover.club/p/why-is-cha...

Tim Robinson and Conner O’Malley, the Patron Saints of Male Frustration This year, Tim Robinson and Conner O’Malley have reached the peak of their comedic aims, toeing an impossible line between analyzing modern masculinity and falling prey to its more odious features

wrote about FUNNY MEN for the ringer www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/t...

A Brief Tour Through The Bad Parts Of The NBA, With Ock Sportello | Defector Harry and I did not know that Nico Harrison was about to be fired when we invited famed blogger Ock Sportello back on Nothing But Respect this week, but the timing worked out perfectly, as our…

A brief tour through the bad parts of the NBA, with Ock Sportello: defector.com/a-brief-tour...

Quick thoughts on the NBA gambling indictments This morning, in a political stunt meant to distract the sports-watching world from Egor Dëmin going 4 of 6 from deep in his NBA debut, Kash Patel’s FBI arrested Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and a ...

some quick thoughts on the NBA gambling indictments: what they are, what they aren't, how insane they're going to make everyone for the foreseeable future www.neverhungover.club/p/quick-thou...

My Own Barclays Center Fascist Humiliation Ritual The 2025-26 Never Hungover Brooklyn Nets season preview; or, how and whether to keep loving a team that hates your guts

blogged about the evil brooklyn nets www.neverhungover.club/p/my-own-bar...

Gluttons for Punishment An inside look at Power Slap, Dana White's next big bet.

you've probably seen videos of power slap, the insane new venture from dana white where people take turns slapping a defenseless person in the face. last month, I got all access to power slap 14 in new orleans for @derangepub.bsky.social www.derange.co/p/what-is-po...

Feds Watching | Los Angeles Review of Books Jack Lubin considers state censorship and New Orleans rapper B.G.’s album “Freedom of Speech,” in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”

for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I had the privilege of writing about the new album from former hot boy BG, which bears the unwelcome distinction of being the first rap album ever released with pre-approval from a federal probation officer lareviewofbooks.org/article/feds...

Fellas on Screen On Friendship, Eephus, Vulcanizadora

back to blogging: wrote about friendship, eephus, vulcanizadora, and the varying degrees of success with which male friendship has been treated at da movies this year open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...

Toward a Unified Theory of Uncool Considering the NBA's swag crisis, Zyn, and the West Village Girls

holiday weekend big blog: I wrote about the NBA playoffs' swag crisis www.neverhungover.club/p/toward-a-u...

Do You Have Tequila, and/or Xanax? A quick appreciation of Amalia Ulman's Magic Farm, my favorite movie of the year so far

blogged about my favorite movie of the year www.neverhungover.club/p/do-you-hav...

Looking for An Honest Man: A Conversation With billy woods Ock Sportello speaks to the Backwoodz frontman about his new album, fatherhood, the infamous orchestra-backed Nas concert at Carnegie Hall and more.

All the billy woods interviews have been great, but I'm partial to this masterpiece by Ock Sportello

Laments about the Chicago Bulls & the life of the modern artist, literary & cinematic inspirations, and not wanting to see Nas with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...

Looking for An Honest Man: A Conversation With billy woods Ock Sportello speaks to the Backwoodz frontman about his new album, fatherhood, the infamous orchestra-backed Nas concert at Carnegie Hall and more.

got to talk with the best rapper for the best blog 🪡🪡🪡 www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...

wait look i made a special graphic for this megamix...graphic design IS my passion

Smug Conspiracism Concerning The Shrouds, The Rehearsal, Wolves-Lakers Round 1, and Savannah Bananas Great Replacement Theory

in this week's blog, i sort of reviewed the shrouds, the rehearsal season 2, and the wolves-lakers playoff series as a way of asking: why is everyone so insane now? www.neverhungover.club/p/smug-consp...

Smoke Shop America Thinking about Skrillex, Baby Invasion, and Galaxy Gas

wrote about skrillex, baby invasion, smoke shops, rot www.neverhungover.club/p/smoke-shop...

MUSIC and the Eternal 2017 Some loosely collected thoughts on Playboi Carti's MUSIC

I wrote about the playboi carti album MUSIC not as the beginning of a new era but as a fitting summation of the era we’ve been stuck in for a while now www.neverhungover.club/p/music-and-...

A Brand-New Map Without Us | Los Angeles Review of Books Jack Lubin reports from Super Bowl week in New Orleans.

wrote about the super bowl lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-br...

Who The Hell Want Me? Against the sports quote graphic industrial complex

wrote about the rise and fall of sports quote graphic memes and the offputting era of meme-farming www.neverhungover.club/p/who-the-he...

We Are All In Club Chalamet For his POW debut, Ock Sportello reports on how Timothée Chalamet has become the first genuinely inescapable movie star of his generation.

A really smart essay about how Timothée Chalamet mastered the art of the modern press run in support of "A Complete Unknown."

The ball knowing on ESPN, the obscure Dylan covers on SNL, the gushing about the Based God on Nardwuar.

By @ocksportello.bsky.social

www.passionweiss.com/2025/02/11/c...

Hector Banana-bread and the Prison of Banger-Hunting Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present

Another Ock Sportello banger.

Hector Banana-bread and the Prison of Banger-Hunting Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present

I wrote about--bear with me--the stupid, fake victor wembanyama nickname meme, the ellen selfie, and the way that banger-hunting has made twitter so unpleasant www.neverhungover.club/p/hector-ban...

LaMelo Ball and the Brainrotted Human Spirit "Lamelo...to himself...oh yeah," or; toward a theory of LaMelo Ball as the first great Zoomer athlete

in which an insane lamelo ball off the backboard pass forces me to consider lamelo as the first great zoomer hooper; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ball www.neverhungover.club/p/the-life-a...

The Never Hungover Best of 2024 Music, Movies, Books (Book?), Moments

wrote about my favorite things of 2024 www.neverhungover.club/p/the-never-...

One of my most visceral online political memories, as embarrassing a phrase as that may be, was the moment in 2020 that I started seeing overt racism on my Twitter timeline. I remember the dizzying feeling of seeing people who ostensibly talked like me, who traded in the same online semiotics, proudly spout off fascist nonsense. But once I spent enough time with these people, I realized how easily and justly they could be dismissed. Their politics were something even less principled than reaction; they flailed against liberal-left boogeymen for no obvious reason other than the fact that most people online and around them seemed to agree with the basic tenets of that liberal left. Because the type of person who decides to build their identity on the internet is also often the type of person who relies upon an unstudied and pathological contrarianism to distinguish themselves from the dreaded average opinion-haver, the formation of something like a liberal-left consensus in popular culture and on the text-based internet made it inevitable that some people would start talking like Tucker Carlson to feel edgy. Just because these people are repulsive for the way in which they view hatred as an interchangeable aesthetic mode does not mean that they need to be taken seriously, because these people do not move culture in any meaningful way.

"Because the type of person who decides to build their identity on the internet is also often the type of person who relies upon an unstudied and pathological contrarianism to distinguish themselves from the dreaded average opinion-haver..." www.neverhungover.club/p/scam-ameri...

SCAM AMERICA 777 Another explanation for the conservative turn among young men

wrote about young men and donald trump and a nation of scammers open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...