Dennis B. Hooper

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why. U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.

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Something I wonder about is if the much ballyhooed shift of Gen Z men to Trump (and to influencers like Andrew Tate) is a perverse consequence of this. Shielded from bullying throughout school, bullies in media then seem empowering and thrilling to them rather than threatening or exhausting

Of course Scorsese is making a film about night, the time of day most hospitable to crime

I guess there's no good guys when it comes to management.

Letterboxd review of Weapons (2025) by me: 4.5 stars. Wild movie, entertaining and eerie and unpredictable. Gladys has the same energy as Tarantino doing a cameo in one of his films but that’s not necessarily wrong for this

Relevant to the Tarantino discourse…

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This is obviously bad but also it’s funny that the Pentagon continues to leak like a sieve

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

Watching GdT’s Frankenstein and he’s taken a lot of liberties with the source matter. No Frau Blucher? No schwanztucker?

An Early Morning Snow at Waffle House outside of Cleveland, Ohio

Human beings interacting on foot have a very different dynamic than when they're interacting behind the wheel of a car stuck in traffic. And guess how suburbanites spend most of their time in public?

Headline: SAVED BY STOPPARD Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.

check the alt text

A fake tweet from McMegan making an observation about the title of the show Mad Men, that it could refer as much to the mad-ness of its characters as the Mad-ison Avenue of its origin

What did she mean by this

​​Does scandal sell? Not for Olivia Nuzzi’s book so far | CNN “We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door,” said one bookseller.

👀 www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...

Mad men poster where Don passes himself on the street

Tenet poster where the protagonist passes himself on the street

Officially porting over my single goofiest twitter thread, MENET

Apropos of nothing (because I just like saying this), the show definitely would not have worked without Bryan Cranston’s barnstormer of a performance, but there’s one other actor who I think could’ve pulled it off, and it’s

Lauren L Walker @LLW902 the simple fact of the matter is that those of us who committed every sea shanty from Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World to memory are just better prepared for prolonged isolation than the rest of you 3/16/20

Los Angeles Times headline (a few months later) That she blows up! How sea shanty tiktok took over the internet

A lot of crazy things happened during the first year of covid but for my money this is still the craziest

#PubSignThursday Kehoe's, Dublin.

Are you a normal person who would like to buy or build a personal computer to do something actually useful or enjoyable? Haha fuck you.

Glorious

Secrets of the universe explained

Simpsons graphic: And Principal Seymour Skinner as “skinny boy”

YouTube video by LeChuck Threepwood Warren Zevon In Governor Jesse Ventura's Inaugural Ball At The Target Center, Minneapolis, 1/16/1999

REJOICE!! SOMEONE HAS PUT THE VIDEO OF JESSE VENTURA SINGING WEREWOLVES OF MINNESOTA WITH WARREN ZEVON BACK UP ON YOUTUBE, HAPPY FIRST WEDNESDAY!!! (It starts at the 5-minute mark)

A quote from an Axios story about a raccoon that got trashed at a North Carolina store that reads: "Why it matters: The intoxicated suspect was a raccoon."

Why it matters

I have an essay about Denis Johnson for @nytimes.com this week.

Wanted to share some of his notes for Train Dreams here, scraps he scribbled down while working out the idea in the late 90s in Idaho.

Here are a few. 1/ thread

Trump, forgetting his recent effort to co-opt the issue, called affordability "a fake word, it doesn't mean anything to anybody." Just putting that out there in case anyone in an opposition party wants to use it.