Bill Wasik

Note in a child’s hand: “dear faereys I wish you would take me to faerey land. Alice”

Found in the bathroom of the Lyme, NH library.

my guess is a DraftKings commercial with the phrase When Harry Bet Sally, with the diner scene after winning a parlay

A tweet by @topherflorence that reads, "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"

No one EVER learns the lesson of Surf Dracula

YouTube video by The Jackson 5 - Topic Doctor My Eyes

Today I Learned: That the Jackson 5 once covered Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes"

youtu.be/JSVQVbBJd34

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers

1. Spinoza

warning poster about not feeding magpies

with every bite of bánh mì they grow stronger

If you're looking for one journalist to read every story of, it should probably be Eli Saslow. You do not luck into this level of intimate reporting over and over again

Another case of a conventionally attractive star taking a role that should have rightly gone to a Hutt.

What a photo. A new NYT pic of Luigi Mangione being brought into a Pennsylvania courthouse tonight.

📸 by Rachel Wisniewski

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

What if Charity Shouldn’t Be Optimized? (Gift Article) The recent trend in philanthropy has been to look for the most bang for your buck. Maybe you don’t have to.

I wrote an essay for @nytimes.com Ideas about how people decide where to give away money and how the tech industry's obsession with optimization filtered into so many parts of our culture. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

The CEO’s assassin yesterday used a silencer. Murders with silencers have been rare. But the proliferation of silencers here in Fantasyland—that is, the U.S.—is staggering, quintupling since 2016 to 5 million. The gun industry’s silencer sales are approaching $1 billion a year.

Kieran Culkin Could Rule Oscar Season. He’d Rather Be at Home. (Gift Article) The “Succession” actor is an awards front-runner for “A Real Pain,” but his actual priority is being a dad: “That’s the whole point of life.”

“I don’t personally know anybody that has hit a level of fame that likes it. I have a friend who became famous overnight and his horror story was realizing, ‘Oh, it’s too late. I fucked my life.’”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/m...

(Maybe better link here: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/o...)

David Wallace-Wells’s new piece on Covid revisionism is right on the money. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...