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peanut store, atlantic city, new jersey, 1976

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1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece 2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words ew.com/kenan-thomps...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

Lou Reed interviewed about Metal Machine Music Q: Do you consider this a danceable album? A: It depends on how you dance.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

New pod with Graydon Carter: Spy’s Creation Story Who Took the Stories the Hardest Getting Vanity Fair after asking for the New Yorker Fresh Underwear and Other Conde Perks Christopher Hitchens Plus: I teach the former VF editor the term "glow-up" open.spotify.com/episode/3WDX...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Really I guess there's nothing stopping me from doing this.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The weather is warmer. The snails will be back in the garden and woods soon (there's already a tiny one living in our mailbox). Will the newsletter just become essays and photos about snails? Maybe.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I'm back to writing about snails. gabebullard.substack.com/p/on-having-...

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Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

submitted 24 days ago • 198 comments

Enjoyed the latest Together, Alone by @gbullard.bsky.social! I don’t often watch movies (on planes or off), so when I watch one on a flight it tends to be one I’ve wanted to see. My latest: Ex Machina, Bohemiam Rhapsody, Cidade de Deus, & A Star is Born. www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/a-few-thou...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Props to @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social for holding DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar's feet to the fire this morning. Powerful interviewing: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

“I’ve often said this & I don’t think I’m exaggerating too much: America may be the only country that hates art. Money is the only thing that’s considered a healthy habit. Art is considered neurotic, or it just shows that you have problems, whereas having money is somehow seen as totally healthy.”

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

In an essay about the value of movies, Susan Sontag wrote that film taught lessons on how to live. "Example: It looks good to wear a raincoat even when it isn't raining."

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 In this German election special, we ring up @tabouchadi.bsky.social to unpack the results & speak to @emiliaroig.bsky.social about what it feels like to live in Germany right now — and how to think about the fightback. www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Unfussy, utilitarian, ubiquitous — the reporter’s notebook carried an aura of authenticity. Despite technological advances, the notebooks are still produced, albeit for a market that may tap into nostalgia more than reportage. niemanreports.org/reporters-no...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote down some thoughts on Post Malone's Nirvana karaoke, the idea of "selling out," and irony as a cover for nihilism online.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Come ON

submitted 46 days ago • 168 comments

There are so many services needed in the world, and a bunch of people decided "Uber with Guns" was what they would devote their time, energy and money on instead of something like reducing tuberculosis.

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

Rock-Ola was a big brand of jukebox, but the name didn't come from rock music, or the fact that the jukebox's antecedent, the player piano, was called the pianola. Rockola was the founder's name. He started making jukeboxes in the 1930s. The name might've influenced the coinage of "rock and roll"

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

It’s cool that a guy who does ads for Oreos and Jagermeister is now the lead singer of Nirvana.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Oops! All Jersey Boys — Kennedy Center's 2026 programming, probably

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

submitted 59 days ago • 72 comments

I wrote about tiny microphones and the smartphone's "wires and lights in a box" moment. Diversions include: • NBC's "living room" studio in San Francisco in the '50s • Murrow smoking during stand-ups • A theory on accidental ASMR www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/tiny-micro...

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 53 days ago • 305 comments

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 60 days ago • 170 comments

this is truly despicable.

submitted 66 days ago • 304 comments

Am I reading this correctly that Little House on the Prairie drew more viewing time than all but the top three original streaming shows? www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

submitted 80 days ago • 119 comments

Bleak!

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Never gonna happen.