Evan McGarvey

Michael Mann presents …

POPE

Dick Wolf presents:

Chicago Pope

Halftime speech of a lifetime coming up for Mikel

Hudson makes Jim Ross sound restrained

This game is bananas, walnuts, pomegranates, cashews

👀 well, they say to write about what you care about and what brought you to writing in the first place

Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members.

Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump. The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members.
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The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities

I think one thing chatGPT's invention has revealed is how many people - including some very important people in society - find just basic reading and writing to be laborious and cumbersome to perform, and how oddly closely that type of strained literacy correlates with having other shitty opinions.

a man in a blue shirt with the number 1901027 on the front ALT: a man in a blue shirt with the number 1901027 on the front

teaching is existentially hard, but when a former student emails you to tell you that they took advice you gave them years ago, transformed it to fit their life specifically , and it worked

NSF just slashed its graduate research fellowships by 51%.
This prestigious program has trained & nurtured at least 42 scientists who went on to become Nobel laureates.
We're destroying it, at exactly the time we claim to worry about our "sputnik moment" with China

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It is surreal for me to have an MFA in poetry (POETRY!!!!) and to know in my waters that I am instrumentally smarter about the modern global economy than roughly 1/3 of the president’s advisors

Love how the economy right now is just Peter Navarro barking and holding up Dutch Tulips

It’s great to wake up, get the kids off to school, and then wonder how many stock market circuit breakers we are gonna burn through today

And this administration’s fleet of very wealthy southwestern energy titan donors is definitely gonna have a … reaction … to the falling price of a barrel of oil.

The “Bad” Val Kilmer Movies That Actually Prove He Deserves More Credit Than We Gave Him Battling Two-Face and the Joker—and squaring off with David Mamet? Kilmer was the only actor who could do both.

Got to write an elegy for Val Kilmer for @gqmagazine.bsky.social . SPARTAN and BATMAN FOREVER got dismissed when they were released, but they are now touchstones for everything that made Kilmer special. He was a rare man and his refusal to be normal made him great

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“Don’t you teach them knife fighting. You teach them how to kill. That way, when they meet some poor son of a birch who learned knife fighting, they’ll send his soul to hell.”

He was *my* Batman . RIP Val Kilmer

Revisiting 50 Cent's ‘The Massacre,’ a Turning Point For 50, Rap Music in the 2000s, and the Fine Art of Hating His debut album Get Rich or Die Trying defined an era. His follow-up, which turned 20 this month, became a cautionary tale.

THE MASSACRE, 50 Cent’s strange, slack second album, was released twenty years ago this month. It was an inflection point for his career, for rap, and for the Millennial music industry at large. I looked back for @gqmagazine.bsky.social

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The first 12 minutes of THE PITT tonight: some of the very best ‘before the storm’ acting and writing I’ve seen in a long while

Arsenal 😔😔😔😔😔

Arsenal must sign a disappointing left 8 every summer, so they can become a highly impactful striker in every February

The steady creep of wrestling terms into lexicons across all social classes (heel turn, jabroni, pop) delights me to no end

Welcome to the pro wrestling hive? (Where the phrase originated)

Jon Hamm you are from St. Louis. Stop that region conflating nonsense

Finishing Moves | Los Angeles Review of Books In his story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Evan McGarvey boards a long flight with a group of professional wrestlers.

"I stayed on her as she leaned on the bulkhead, breathing deep, smiling, a little blood on her hand. Then I cut and closed the camera." In his new LARB Quarterly story, @evanmcgarvey.bsky.social boards a long flight with a group of professional wrestlers. lareviewofbooks.org/article/fini...

I’m very skeptical of true crime both as a genre and as a human endeavor , but goddamn this is literature : unblinking, thrilling, awful, exigent, ethical, human

Love that my kids make random half rhythmic clanking and grunting sounds as interstitial music while watching sports