Beach Sloth

Shopping Complex by August Smith America has a complex relationship with shopping. Most American economic activity revolves around it, like a capitalistic universe, with credit at its center. Nobody worships the dollar anymore; in fa...

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Enforced scarcity: the idea of limited-edition items is enough to get people to purchase them out of fear of missing out. Investing works in a similar fashion; you cannot and should not be the last one to the event.

Caring for multiple sick people today. Please send health.

APPX:LP02 Irradiated, by Reinartz 8 track album

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Nice hallucinations and dub

Kinshasa in Action, by KINACT 11 track album

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Industrial aesthetics with industrial implements

A Year In Infinite Darkness by Nirris Nagendrarajah Movies convey multitudes. The meaning can sometimes be lost in translation. A visual art form cannot be expected to get everything right. Personally, I am a visual learner, so having the movie guide m...

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We are spoon-fed so much success in the media, trying to convince us to succeed, to show how empowering that can be. The most radical thing a movie could do is show what it is like to fail and be completely okay with it

I want scallion pancakes cakes with every ounce of my being

This is the nicest coffee a coworker has gotten me in a long time

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Everything here is synced up perfectly, and despite the group’s small size of a mere quartet, they feel much larger than that.

The Last American Landmine by Gideon Leek Pools are romantic places. You can learn a lot about how a person looks by seeing them in a pool. Rare bit of Beach Sloth lore, but Beach Sloth used to be a lifeguard. New York City imported lifeguard...

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People long to return to their roots, and as a native New Yorker, I feel that. Times when I dream of the world I grew up in, an affordable New York City, are long past.

My long out of print book, where physical copies go for about $100

01.25.2026 Good Morning,

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When noise makes it into the mainstream, with Merzbow performing at Coachella, I’ll either be very long dead, most likely, or things will have gotten very strange, very quickly.

Milkweed is some fascinatingly trippy stuff

Law enforcement is mentioned zero times in the Constitution.

We need to bring the Rhodes Piano back

What do you call something that moves slower than a glacier? This album exists to try and answer that question.

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The downfall of the Pitchfork Media Industrial complex will result in a giant power vacuum for the music review online sphere, one that myself and all my music review friends are about to capitalize on

Little Engines Little Engines are the little engines that could.

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Are people in the United States still dying from easily preventable diseases, illnesses, and mass shootings? Oh yes, but violence and premature death have always been the American experience.

Today is my birthday, and I am so grateful to all the people who have inspired me to write and create again! Hopefully, I can get all of you some fine party favors this joyous day :) Be like the sloth and sleep an extra hour today. Do it for me.

I really want to know what number Pitchfork assigned to an album, so I will pay for that non-blurred number between 0.0 and 10.0

Social Media wants me to rage-bait you, but I could never do that to you. I love you too much for that.

Farewell Transmission Farewell Transmission have beef with Submittable.

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Have you ever used Submittable? Don’t, it is rotten to the core.

Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, by JASMINE GUFFOND 3 track album

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One of my favorite albums from last year. Absolutely immersive. There is no escape.

Mirror psychosis by Sam Cooke The machines must be crazy. I worry about machines. Luddites predicted machines would be the death of civilization, smashing them up with whatever weapons they could find. Many centuries later, a robo...

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Nobody wants to get shit-talked, but doing the shit-talking, that’s a whole other scenario.

Doesn't feel antiquated to us.

The number of writers on Substack drives home the hunger for reading/writing/community among writers.

We believe in older fashioned network effects. Best way to show support is here, at annual cost of abt a month & a half of Netflix:

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Should I get a one tetrabyte iPod?

Seems the rage baiter has become the rage baited

What if, instead of having martial law, we had martial slaw?

Really excited to share this with all of you. Feels like the result of putting effort into my writing and relearning focus

Finally not sick after weeks of being sick