Nick Moran

10,000%

Who gets punched in the face more frequently per episode, Ryan in The OC season 1, or Pete in Mad Men season 5?

You’re in for a treat. It had serious potential. In my past life I participated in the media hype cycle around its release. There’s a “book trailer” somewhere out there with me talking about DFW’s legacy (I was a stupid 22 year old at the time).

All these years later I think about the levitation scene in TPK at least once a month

Now we’re talking

Is my English teacher dad writing graffiti in Baltimore?

Supremely helpful but unfortunately other states only eat casseroles so we can’t scale the system

Particularly rich because of how frequently LLM answers cite years old Reddit comments: "In 2021, loosely speaking, 'Reddit' caused stock rallies; in 2026 maybe the chatbots are doing it."

Had no idea that house on Bellona was c. 1850!

Everyone knows Avenues, Lanes, Ways, and Drives. But what do you know about Garths?

This week’s @beyondvideo.bsky.social pulls

I fear my brain has been permanently broken because I'm reading an emotional and intense GQ feature about a foundational midwest emo band and I am driven to youtube slop distraction by this choice of words

How a Hopkins professor’s mushroom trip led to 1,000 paintings of cigarettes While participating in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study on mushroom-derived psilocybin, and the drug’s ability to curb addictive behaviors, the local writing professor discovered he loves to paint cigar...

One of these hangs right above where I'm typing this, lol

Anyone can make red beans and rice but do you have the courage to make white beans and rice?

Bang the Drumstick Slowly | Ian Frazier About 26 billion chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.

"Chickens are now the most populous terrestrial vertebrate. At any one time, about 26 billion chickens occupy the planet."

Christian Lorentzen · I’m always in the club: Peter Matthiessen in Paris ‘When you’re 23, it seems pretty romantic to go to Paris with yr beautiful young wife to serve as an intelligence...

"Just think of those spooks whispering about pinkos over their cups of tea an arm’s length from an expensive old book about Satan."

Sorry, can't make any Wednesday AWP readings. I've got plans.

They’re ready for AWP in east Baltimore.

Baltimore

Absolutely

Introduced my daughter to McDonald’s fries from the drive-thru window today, like giving the flame to cavemen. I’ve changed history.

Stopping at the Tocacco shop… anyone need anything?

Call to Arms YouTube video by Sturgill Simpson - Topic

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Time is a flat circle.

"One of every 15 residents in Dublin’s trendy Grand Canal Dock district was born in the U.S., according to realtors, higher than the percentage of Americans born in Ireland during the 19th-century influx following the Potato Famine."

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

"The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there."

Baltimore

Lindsay Turner in the NYRB

Unfortunately it burned down in a non-beef-related fire not long ago so they’re on temporary hiatus. But keep an eye on Tony’s IG because he’s got the best in the city on weekends at 26th & Calvert: www.instagram.com/jerkwerks