Oh hell yeah

I’m so dead

Ok this is amazing?!

Weeks. Idk what is time. I’m tired.

I got my taxes done a few months weeks ago and now I’m stressing over other tasks!!!

Fave!

I love it here!! Did you see the Chagall stained glass windows or the Frank Lloyd Wright trading floor?

Happy birthday!

It’s at noon at USC.

Come see me in LA on Saturday, April 18!! I’ll be at the @latimes.com book festival with Jeff Weiss, Misty Heggeness and Meg James talking about my book, the Y2K era, Britney, and more!

This is great! You’ve been on a hell of a roll lately

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM TELL THE IRANIANS ITS MY TURN TO USE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Happy holiday!!!!

I have seen one good example of this plate

While many Americans would see this as an unthinkable regression to a time when women were treated as second-class Americans, proponents of the concept believe deeply that this arrangement is what God envisioned in a marriage.

Did you know there are actually two sides to the question of whether women are people?

Why An Alien Invasion Would Not Unite The World YouTube video by Bang-Bang Podcast

So awesome to have critically acclaimed actor Morgan Spector on the pod to talk Independence Day (1996)! www.youtube.com/shorts/BqUNO...

They are tough little guys. Also, one time a black kite swooped down and stole my ice cream cone with its talons

are a lot of people cheerfully protesting with signs going to force donald trump to step down tomorrow? no

is it going to help inspire a lot of people who will do the work necessary to get him and his cronies out of office this fall and in 2028? yes

look guy not to be all coulda woulda shoulda but i can think of one significant thing you could have done (or rather not done) to achieve basically the same outcome

I need this

Oh yes exactly. The vast majority of people can look collected and put together.

Exactly! Looking slovenly is a sign of either 1) a serious mental illness or 2) poor character, imo

Health is so important fr

I think there is something seriously wrong with people who don’t!

And my sincerest hope for my book was always that somewhere, someone would read the book or read a book whose thinking was informed by the book (or frankly watch a YouTube video, podcast, whatever) and know some part of the story I told.

People need to know how financially taxing writing is. But I loved the part at the end where the author talks about stories transmitted through generations! That’s my hope for Y2K. I’m actually happy if that’s my only book because I’ve told the story of what happened in our culture as I see it.

You’re succeeding! I’ve been thinking a lot about lost worlds as I ponder the end of literary criticism, Hollywood, academia and more, and as I work full time at my non writing job, study for the LSAT, and consider if I ever want to write a book again.

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At 5:30, after a brief intermission, we'll have @alybatt.bsky.social on "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature"

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This was beautiful!

The Job I Want Doesn’t Exist Anymore What is lost when arts criticism dies?

Today’s Scratch newsletter is a personal essay on being a Black critic at the end of arts criticism by @latriagraham.bsky.social. Come for the killer lede, stay for the dream deferred.