One of my thoughts on 4/20 is that the general cultural mode of a guy who likes drugs has moved from a kind of hippy let’s all get along sort of guy to a “I am better than you because I do drugs and have become the ubermensch” sort of guy and it’s been a pretty big catastrophe for the human race

another Monday morning, another opportunity to wait behind my neighbor as she slowly and carefully inches her way through the **four-way stop sign** intersection

this is a posting-about-writing-about-chair-design account now

In another chapter they start by saying a chair is “attributed to Gerrit Rietveld” then 5 pages later that same chair is captioned as “by Gerrit Rietveld.” mm-hmm

when I’m home I want to relax and not think about paradoxes of meaning. is that so much to ask

I don’t like these Paul Frankl chairs. why must they cleave. no contranyms allowed in my house

imagine saying “I’m coming over to straighten your life out whether you like it or not” to Helen DeWitt. would we expect her to respond well or

what i don't understand is why no one in her life flew to amsterdam to help helen dewitt do the stuff she needed to do in order to receive a life-changing amount of money????????? jesus christ i would have INSISTED 10:10 AM • Apr 9, 2026

there may well be people who insisted on helping her; there may be some continuing to do so right now. HDW is an autonomous adult—what do people think effective “insisting” would look like in this context?

good morning

Judd was so good. Better

“Dig Me Out” live at 924 Gilman’s Punk Prom in ‘97 - happy 29 years of the record today!

🎥 aezrax on YouTube

from Spatial Systems in NxNW by Jameson: “In contemporary image culture, there are evidently good and objective reasons why this temptation should be so strong: anyone who has leafed through Hitchcock stills, however, in the attempt to illustrate - or at least to peg for memory's sake - this or that significant moment in his films (including this one), learns, with a certain salutary astonishment, that the isolated frame in Hitchcock conveys very little of what we then rapidly come to identify as the crucial matter: namely, movement itself. In spite of the fetishization of the visual and the voyeuristic in Hitchcock (or perhaps because of it), these films rarely work towards the supreme moment of the production of the modernist image as such, the dissociation of the moment of vision from the narrative which becomes its pretext, as in the Dance of Death in The Seventh Seal, or the dramatic caricature of the whole process of image-production in the unexpected Last Supper of Viridiana.”

this reminds me of how it’s not really a compliment when someone says a movie shot is “like a painting.” it shouldn’t be like a painting, it should be like a movie. because it is a movie

Freddie ❤️

idk LA is a pretty ephemeral place. outside of movies it’s not as good at documenting and mythologizing itself as NYC is. but this book is one place to look www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/it-a...

The latest TikTok trend is called "Millandstanding." It's when you try to list as many Ray Milland roles as you can think of in under a minute. I have to admit it's nice to see young people take an interest in Ray Milland

“indie sleaze” didn’t start in New York in the 00s, it started in LA in the 90s

abolish ice

Jordan Firstman’s comments about Heated Rivalry are getting a lot of attention but has anyone else noticed his other outrageous claim (that he’s 34 years old)?

How do they relate to the Fosse continuity

Do I need to finish the My Struggle series before I begin On the Calculation of Volume or are they stand-alone entries in the Scandiverse

if you are leaving a book in the library you aren't reclaiming that book

its of no concern to you what happens after

chag pesach sameach everybody

people say “none of my succulent pots have drainage holes” with the same smugness they say “my dogs don’t need a leash.” oh okay I’ll order a special plaque for you and your plants and dogs then

it’s really insane how much Rowling et al. hate children

thank you!

where can I buy the sweater Kiké is wearing here

Woodring! 🙌

or Ardmore lol

I feel like there’s got to be a happy medium between “Everyone who has ever watched a cartoon after the age of eight is an unwashed peasant” and “There is no difference between my erotic Mario Kart fan fiction and Macbeth except my fanfic is morally superior.”

Simpsons. Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry

this is what I picture when the guy at the weed store says “this one is Chill, this one is Uplift, this one is Sleep”