@ocksportello.bsky.social
humble blogger www.neverhungover.club
some quick thoughts on the NBA gambling indictments: what they are, what they aren't, how insane they're going to make everyone for the foreseeable future www.neverhungover.club/p/quick-thou...
23.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
blogged about the evil brooklyn nets www.neverhungover.club/p/my-own-bar...
09.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
you've probably seen videos of power slap, the insane new venture from dana white where people take turns slapping a defenseless person in the face. last month, I got all access to power slap 14 in new orleans for @derangepub.bsky.social www.derange.co/p/what-is-po...
15.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I had the privilege of writing about the new album from former hot boy BG, which bears the unwelcome distinction of being the first rap album ever released with pre-approval from a federal probation officer lareviewofbooks.org/article/feds...
01.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
back to blogging: wrote about friendship, eephus, vulcanizadora, and the varying degrees of success with which male friendship has been treated at da movies this year open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...
19.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
holiday weekend big blog: I wrote about the NBA playoffs' swag crisis www.neverhungover.club/p/toward-a-u...
25.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
blogged about my favorite movie of the year www.neverhungover.club/p/do-you-hav...
21.05.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the billy woods interviews have been great, but I'm partial to this masterpiece by Ock Sportello
Laments about the Chicago Bulls & the life of the modern artist, literary & cinematic inspirations, and not wanting to see Nas with an orchestra at Carnegie Hall www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
got to talk with the best rapper for the best blog 🪡🪡🪡 www.passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/b...
15.05.2025 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0wait look i made a special graphic for this megamix...graphic design IS my passion
13.05.2025 22:56 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
in this week's blog, i sort of reviewed the shrouds, the rehearsal season 2, and the wolves-lakers playoff series as a way of asking: why is everyone so insane now? www.neverhungover.club/p/smug-consp...
02.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
wrote about skrillex, baby invasion, smoke shops, rot www.neverhungover.club/p/smoke-shop...
23.04.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I wrote about the playboi carti album MUSIC not as the beginning of a new era but as a fitting summation of the era we’ve been stuck in for a while now www.neverhungover.club/p/music-and-...
18.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
wrote about the super bowl lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-br...
23.02.2025 23:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
wrote about the rise and fall of sports quote graphic memes and the offputting era of meme-farming www.neverhungover.club/p/who-the-he...
13.02.2025 19:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A really smart essay about how Timothée Chalamet mastered the art of the modern press run in support of "A Complete Unknown."
The ball knowing on ESPN, the obscure Dylan covers on SNL, the gushing about the Based God on Nardwuar.
By @ocksportello.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/02/11/c...
I wrote about--bear with me--the stupid, fake victor wembanyama nickname meme, the ellen selfie, and the way that banger-hunting has made twitter so unpleasant www.neverhungover.club/p/hector-ban...
16.01.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
in which an insane lamelo ball off the backboard pass forces me to consider lamelo as the first great zoomer hooper; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ball www.neverhungover.club/p/the-life-a...
09.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
wrote about my favorite things of 2024 www.neverhungover.club/p/the-never-...
03.12.2024 20:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of my most visceral online political memories, as embarrassing a phrase as that may be, was the moment in 2020 that I started seeing overt racism on my Twitter timeline. I remember the dizzying feeling of seeing people who ostensibly talked like me, who traded in the same online semiotics, proudly spout off fascist nonsense. But once I spent enough time with these people, I realized how easily and justly they could be dismissed. Their politics were something even less principled than reaction; they flailed against liberal-left boogeymen for no obvious reason other than the fact that most people online and around them seemed to agree with the basic tenets of that liberal left. Because the type of person who decides to build their identity on the internet is also often the type of person who relies upon an unstudied and pathological contrarianism to distinguish themselves from the dreaded average opinion-haver, the formation of something like a liberal-left consensus in popular culture and on the text-based internet made it inevitable that some people would start talking like Tucker Carlson to feel edgy. Just because these people are repulsive for the way in which they view hatred as an interchangeable aesthetic mode does not mean that they need to be taken seriously, because these people do not move culture in any meaningful way.
"Because the type of person who decides to build their identity on the internet is also often the type of person who relies upon an unstudied and pathological contrarianism to distinguish themselves from the dreaded average opinion-haver..." www.neverhungover.club/p/scam-ameri...
22.11.2024 20:40 — 👍 55 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
wrote about young men and donald trump and a nation of scammers open.substack.com/pub/neverhun...
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