White Elephant A dazzling postcolonial inversion of Heart of Darkness set during the Great Indian Famine of 1878 that recounts its devastating cost to both life and human d...

This has definitely piqued my interest, in terms of books due out later this year. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

"You. You lay out my formal shorts."

and now I'm getting flashbacks to talking about Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders in middle school. ah, memories.

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Excellent piece.
Years ago, I interviewed Dan Reed about "In the Shadow of 9/11," and I can remember getting a few irate "how could you write about the man who besmirched a great musician's legacy" responses on social media. Strange and unsettling times...

To be fair, I did once see a Mr. Selfridge DVD set in a Barnes & Noble in central Jersey, but it's possible someone bribed a B&N employee to put a clever replica of a TV show's archives on a shelf there.

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Years ago, my mom said something about three shows she was watching in the same timeslot. She named two real shows and then said, "Mr. Selfridge."
"What's that?" I said.
"A BBC period piece starring Jeremy Piven," she said.
"You're making that up," I said. I still think so.

The television show "Mr. Selfridge" is actually an extended prank that friends and family are playing on me.

Can relate to this a lot. I was also dealing with some untreated back issues at the time, which made walking increasingly painful. I feel like those two factors combined to do lasting damage to a lot of my interpersonal relationships, and if I think about it too much I get incredibly sad.

100%. I am a personally childless dude who nonetheless would like to see humanity continue existing on this planet. I do find that at all contradictory...

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I can remember all the way back to, er, two years ago when Karp was described as "the liberal Palantir guy." As manifestoes go, it's the rare one where its incoherence makes it even more worrisome.

Had someone told me ten years ago that I'd be seeing this band in 2026, I would have been skeptical, and yet! And god, they sound terrific.

Hot damn, Souled American. Hot damn.

JFC, the dig at Minneapolis at the end.

For whatever reason, I find it serendipitous that Robin Williams and Nathan Lane each played a character inspired by Oliver Sacks on screen.

I'm guessing "Fade Into You" — which is an excellent song and a fine choice — but I am very curious if you went hardcore and opted for all seven and a half minutes of "So Tonight That I Might See."

...this is also mine.

(Screenshot of Amazon review) Five stars - Verified Purchase Spider dreams guaranteed Got these for a transatlantic flight from Seattle. Took effect about 20 minutes from consumption. I slept for about 4 hours and continued to use them to adjust to the timezone change. Every night I had the same dream about a spider wrapping me in a web very tightly and speaking backwards. It seemed very scared and was furious I could not understand what it was trying to say. 20 years passed in the dream world and eventually the spider and I became close friends and four years later we were married. Understandably our differences were too much and our relationship fell apart from the inside. My infidelity was the last straw and we never recovered from the betrayal. I would always wake up write before we signed the divorce papers. I had this same dream every night for 6 days. Great product. Highly recommend.

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Looks like it's on Board Game Arena, in addition to existing as a physical object... boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga...

3 Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme Three Southern California residents have been sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme which prosecutors say involved them staging fake bear attacks on high-end cars.

It’s nice to see fraudsters put in some effort instead of just going here’s some AI, give me one billion dollars

God, that's a tremendous bill.

J Church - Jennifer Jason Leigh YouTube video by magyar2120

BUT I NEVER THOUGHT OF THEM AS VICTIMS
BUT I NEVER THOUGHT OF THEM AS VICTIMS
BUT I NEVER THOUGHT OF THEM AS VICTIMS
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I listened to J Church's "Jennifer Jason Leigh" a week or so ago and now I find myself shouting "THE INTERVIEWER ASKED. THE INTERVIEWER ASKED. THE INTERVIEWER ASKED." at various moments. It's probably good that I live alone at times like these.

This series may well be what gets me to watch this show, which I've been meaning to do for much too long.

I'd watch that, for sure.

Which is a shame, because House of Leaves terrified me in a way no book since has. (I was afraid to open my door because I was no longer sure the rest of my apartment would be on the other side.)

I don't know if there are any plans afoot to adapt House of Leaves for film, but I wonder if, at this point, it'd be akin to John Carter a decade ago: a situation where its influence is so widespread a screen version would feel derivative.

So many books on shelves. Also a small figurine of a dog and a print of leaves.

There are many, many more, but how about...

This was an absolute joy to read.