Will Leitch

This one I actually liked!

You're so right. There are exactly 11.

There are two types of people in the world: People who are late all the time, and everyone else, the rest of us, constantly scrambling around trying to make up for how rude they are. Late people try to act as if their chronic lateness is some sort of charming personality quirk, like having a goofy laugh, or a dimple. But what a late person really is is someone who constantly lets you know that they don’t value your time—that they believe themselves more important than you. Always being late is not a fact of being. It is a decision you consistently make not to consider the lives of the people in your life. It is claim of dominion over others. It is some rude shit.

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You wouldn’t be the first on the tour to do so!

If you're in the DC area, come out to Wonderland Books in Bethesda, tonight, 7 p.m. ET, July 30. We'll talk LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE and sports things, and you can yell at me for apparently not liking the new NAKED GUN movie as much as everyone else. Also, there is air conditioning. Come on out!

WAS AT THIS GAME

Sure wish they’d get that MLB logo up on the collar where it’s supposed to be and get the letters back and huge again though. (I just spent a lot of time in the team store waiting in vain for these.)

@bencollins.bsky.social Little light reading at the Cards game tonight.

I feel like the final stage of totalitarianism is when Trump gets himself in the Nats’ presidents’ race.

I honestly did not know that Leno Men existed.

I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...

I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...

@mikevorkunov.bsky.social Found this in some archives. Don’t you miss when you did REAL journalism?

There is! I've got events coming up in Bethesda, Md. (July 30), Columbus, Ga. (August 15) and Brooklyn, N.Y. (November 6).

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Hey, Los Angeles! Come to Book Soup tonight and see me talk about LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE. 7 p.m. PT I will give you a hug.

All songs by the Doors are instantly improved if you imagine them being performed by Ron Burgundy.

I’ve had Braylon tied up down here for months waiting for this precise moment.

Volume 4, Issue 92: A Bowl and a Pudding "Not saying anything, it says a lot."

Guess it's time to point to the "Why McAfees Are Ruining The World" sign again. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-4-i...

Man, McAfee's even on the Statcast version.

Andrew Dice Clay is really good in that movie! (Louis CK, uh, is not.)

Volume 5, Issue 80: How We Are Hungry "Sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last."

I wrote a long (free) newsletter this week about the history, the future and, yes, the magic of Web publishing. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...

Deadspin | Deadspin HOF Nominee: Dana Jacobson Deadspin | Deadspin HOF Nominee: Dana Jacobson

(I'm outing myself for occasionally checking my own name on here, but I think it's worth it to note this was actually Dana Jacobson.) deadspin.com/deadspin-hof...

I'm not sure Syndergaard's would be though.

For the record, I am against the Cardinals signing Matt Harvey to their rotation.

I'm pretty sure that's not what the piece says!

Opinion | Sports won’t save you. And that’s okay. Athletes shouldn’t be told to shut up and dribble. But they also don’t have to save us from Trump.

For @washingtonpost.com, I wrote about asking more from our sports teams that they are morally capable of. They will always disappoint you if you let them. So don't let them. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Can we just say these people are stupid? I mean, they're evil and monomaniacal and out of control, but I keep getting stuck on the stupidity first. This is ... a moron?

Definitely read Siegel's first!

[mentally pre-ordered, that is. The point is I can't wait.]