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writer and researcher, covering books, films, and psychoactivity, in no particular order. a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited.
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it’s weird that more American officials don’t frame the Covid vaccine as a huge success, that mitigated and prevented who-knows-how-many deaths. instead they act embarrassed by it. why? because Covid temporarily made it harder to go out to a chain eatery serving sub-human grade dog food? grow up!

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had a lovely few days in Austin, Texas. great town. no fewer than three locals apologized to me for the state’s republican politics. I told them I can’t even vote so they should probably send that energy elsewhere. nevertheless: a kind, if somewhat embarrassing, gesture.

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read any report of the Roots Picnic in Philly this weekend and you will have your answer.

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just learned that Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia where he can’t sit in Louis XIV-style chairs or use heavy silverware. actors!

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Happy Pride! last weekend me and two friends went to a gay bathhouse thinking it was a schvitz. stories of allyship in action!

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reading it in this voice

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this photo is a disgrace to everyone who takes ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at private gatherings.

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Elon Musk getting outmuscled by some Baby Herman-style cigar-smoking tot.

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Clint Eastwood, who turns 95 tomorrow, has announced plans to direct a new feature.

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literally untrue, as anyone who has ever visited the Wernher Von Braun Center—or even the Wernher Von Braun Planetarium!—in Huntsville, Alabama, can tell you.

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it would be a shame for people to blame Elon Musk’s legacy on his drug use, and not his fundamentally loathsome personality.

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so many Waymos in Austin! only ever seen them in San Francisco. I want to kill them all….on principle?

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post a problematic “would”: horror edition

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Morrissey’s solo output* is superior to that of The Smiths *not counting opinions

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knowing any public information is doxxing. telling anyone anything about themselves is gaslighting. these are the rules.

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I met Kevin O’Leary once. he had a memorably sweaty, limp handshake. like that of a nervous little girl, or boy. his hand sort of folded into mine like a clammy claw of cold poached lobster meat. not a very strong or intimidating individual.

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Hong Kong Baptist University > Harvard

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as if magnetically, the first establishment I ever set foot in in Texas is a Bills bar.

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my sources inside the culture are telling me that God—the big man with the bushy beard in the sky who is the alpha and omega of all creation—is back.

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For the Toronto Star, I wrote about Canada’s new “A.I. ministry,” and my hope that it will tamp down on the BonziBuddification of tech, and society. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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the Panthers are just too good that you kinda have to root for them. they’re sort of like the Philadelphia Eagles in that way.

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“let’s get the hell out of here!”

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I have my Eastwood and Fassbinder cards punched. so probably them.

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give me AUSTIN, TX recs!

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my GOAT!

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shout out to families of four with multiple strollers and 2-3 dogs who pay good honest money to rent the whole sidewalk. sure nobody can pass them and they have no sense of their bodies in physical space. but it’s their right!

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I talked about sports betting and "gamblification" on the @thenation.com podcast this week. Listen here: www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...

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I think it's because depicting venal, stupid morons as that isn't very literary. writers endeavour to turn the most one-dimensional creeps and losers into Falstaff or Raskolnikov or whatever.

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