People who say they’re not hungry and then eat your fries have a level of confidence I’ll never know.

I like it when food is in a rectangular bowl. I can eat like I'm highlighting text in a book.

Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

It's live más not bomb más

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

"This machine-slop will lead to the death of my craft, all so we can reflexively consume mass-produced garbage and keep the working class poor. I get why Luddites are pissed, and if these tapestries weren’t so funny, I’d be right there with them, bashing those machines to bits."

if you are not in Minnesota I need you to know it is BAD. my friends in the cities are afraid to walk their dogs because of the pepper spray. there are empty cars of the abducted left sideways on the street. a kids arm was broken on school property. we are terrified.

Toy photo of a stormtrooper at his bathroom sink looking back at his kitty, that is sitting on the bathtub.

When I can’t remember someone’s name, I imagine Don Pardo announcing them, and so far, not helpful.

THE BULB REGION is now online!

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Make sure to read our four inaugural pieces at:

www.bulbregion.com

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John Lennon October 9 1940-December 8 1980

the #Beatles

An Interview with George Saunders Excerpted from a conversation with Ben Marcus in Issue 11 of The Believer

“Rather than ask who your ideal reader is, since I have met your ideal reader and he hurt me physically…”

open.substack.com/pub/believer...

The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but their heads are now: Guy - a wide-eyed cat Girlfriend - a cat tree Red dress woman - a Christmas tree

It's that time of year

This week’s news in Venn diagrams. With our “What was Literary Twitter?” bracket (don’t forget to vote!) and the National Book Awards happening all in the same week, I’ve been very sleepy lately. Please send …

Catch up on what happened this week with these Venn diagrams.

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?

What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

November 22, 2025 Evolution Molly Akin One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed. I waited. One time I lost sorrow; it slipped out and was buried under sand. Finely ground shells and bits of fur. One time my ancestors came walking out of the sea. They collected the bits of rock and bone and feather and fur and fashioned me. Now I fly with open mouth, trailing words and shouting meaning: “Look at what I lost.” Another swoop, closer to the ground now: “Look at what I found.” Now tusks curl from my mouth. I charge at memory, tossing aside its fragile weight that once pined me hollow. Now I am the one who will turn and return, slipping gently into water.

what a piece today, from Molly Akin!!

"One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed."

https://www.havehashad.com/mf5jn

what was this guy’s fucking problem

RIP Walt Whitman you would have loved a scandal involving sexually explicit poetry and a grass metaphor

Coffee isn't enough I stare directly at the sun for 30 seconds

How dare you give me the tools to help myself.

I don’t know about you, but I pronounce it gyro.

Imagine being able to find something in the first drawer you try.

The children have requested an Edgar Allan Poe tree for Solstice

Three Dark-eyed Juncos have been visiting my garden each day. Two are usual-sized, but the third one has a little junco in the trunko.

Sorry I'm 3 days late, I was eating a pomegranate.

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

“When I work more than an hour on one project, I get irritated.” —Donald Hall buff.ly/gU0kg0S

Whatever You Think, You're Wrong: A Guide to the Comments Section

this is really something,

“Loitering: sitting around without a purpose. You were without a purpose. Eight hours ago you had one. Will you ever find a new one?”