John Semley

I guess seeing a safety is always kind of exciting?

it will never not be funny to me that every year the NFL tries to expand the sports’s international appeal with the absolute worst matchup of the year.

I’m sorry for angering fans of television shows. enjoy your stories, gang!

nobody really talks about Succession anymore. or Game of Thrones. sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

I love this! Also that final car chase was like nothing I’ve ever seen in a movie—which is hard to do!

I liked Crank 1/2 and Gamer. I don't know what the line is. but Mann clears it.

did you enjoy the flick?

Michael Mann, yes. Paul WS Anderson? file under “objects for further review.”

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

he had a fallow period in the late 80s when he was making ATM machine ads in Canada…

didn’t the “Johnny Cash is cool” thing occupy the entire later period of his career? the Rick Rubin albums and whatnot? Danzig wrote a song for him!

and that, too! almost a Philly Sports Equinox!

Does the internet have a Philly accent? Why too much time online can make you ‘culturally Philadelphian.’ Perhaps certain online corners have a special Philly pull.

cool story by @zoegberg.bsky.social about the internet being "culturally Philadelphian." something that everyone on the internet should remember today as the Phillies AND Eagles play--at the same time! www.inquirer.com/life/interne...

VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow) Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/02/2025 · 1h 38m

now that i've seen "one battle..." & no longer fear spoilers, i should mention i was a guest recently on @johnsemley3000.bsky.social & co.'s slow learners podcast, poking at the counterculture threads in "vineland," which was seriously fun. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir “Shadow Ticket” may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

good morning! I reviewed Thomas Pynchon’s latest—and, perhaps, last?—novel, SHADOW TICKET, for the @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

what?

LeBron’s retirement may finally allow me to become the greatest rostered NBA player of my generation.

John Semley: The Liberty Bell is locked up. What does that say about America right now? I prefer an imperfect union to no union whatsoever and I worry that latter is what America is currently previewing with this government closure.

the other day I walked past Independence Hall--where America was basically invented. it's closed now. I wrote about the thudding symbolic heft of tourists milling about a shuttered landmark, for the @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

looks like Ohtani bet the over!

just say you like money! holy shit!

just say you like money! holy shit!

good-ass shelf alert!

Struggle cinema David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

Damn, so our best writer on Trump & the nightmare we're all living through is _also_ superb at writing on movies? It's fine, I'm not jealous at all. David Roth on OBAA, 1970s paranoid political thrillers, & how revolution, by its very nature, is always a work in progress. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

all-dressed is the BEST chip!

John Semley: Can Canadian potato chips lead to American acceptance of ‘tout garnie’? There is no Canadian culinary confection quite like the all-dressed chip. As schoolchildren we’re taught to believe that Canada is a land of cultural and ethnic diversity. It’s the kind

America has all-dressed potato chips now. for the @thestar.com I dared to ask: can the Yankee mind comprehend the "tout-garnie" lifestyle? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir “Shadow Ticket” may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

good morning! I reviewed Thomas Pynchon’s latest—and, perhaps, last?—novel, SHADOW TICKET, for the @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Feels like my brain is cooking sous vide in its own cranial fluid grappling with Hegseth announcing “I am so sick of fat, effeminate men” to warm up a crowd of generals for a planned loyalty pledge to DONALD TRUMP, the show tunes president currently dreaming of a ballroom the size of the Taj Mahal

Donald Trump: we should move the military into our own cities.

Hakeem Jeffries: I call him “Doofy Donald,” or “Don Doofio.”

borsch belt stalinism

“Webster’s dictionary defines ‘peace’ as….”