Michael

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

Happy Shadow Ticket Day to all who celebrate

Say what you will about reddit, it's reassuring to google something like "newborn won't stop eating" and find a dozen replies confirming that babies just do that sometimes

When covid first hit my army unit went home for a few weeks and had to log runs to the company Strava group, so I'd title the runs like "9/11 every day" and "22 mil unemployed baby"

I did one (1) enlistment in the army a long time ago and something that became clear very quickly was that everyone who takes the term "warrior ethos" seriously is a moron

4D chess self-coup attempt

learning his Star Was book is about the movies and not missile defense is killing me

about one week, in my experience

I was really hoping for a Man Show revival, but this is fine

@ stopwiththebuttholecramp

the only good thing to happen online this year was when everyone watched conclave and then there was an actual conclave and the whole internet was just going this is just like in conclave

you're doing very important work

Army #2 Range Day

I never fired a weapon in anger, mostly just boredom and frustration

All my problems can be solved with the correct allocation of caffeine

You know you're slow when the running app tries to stop tracking halfway through

🚨 Hard Boiled (1992) is now streaming on Kanopy 🚨

High Planning American Communism #2

new story

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

High Planning American Communism #2

new story

This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigo...

Here's a good blog post: defector.com/this-is-who-...

finding out that Something Happened

A can of diet coke with a price sticker: $5.99

they call me Mr. Deals

Surprised by how much Faulkner wrote about WWI and flying. In high school it was all about his writing on the South and the human condition, but there's so much more in his collected stories
#booksky

Army #2 Range Day

I never fired a weapon in anger, mostly just boredom and frustration

Guy on escalator watching "I Want It That Way - Rock Band Version" video without headphones

The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp

Early birthday gift. Been looking forward to this one for a while

Please Don't Forget writing, nabokov, faulkner, rome

Please Don't Forget

more writing on reading and writing

Years ago, we ran through city streets, alongside streetcars, buses, and what have you. It was a two-hour run from the mills of Gary to the North Side of Chicago. Some seventy-six traffic lights. Every one of them had to be individually timed and played differently. If you have to stop that truck and start it, it's not only aggravating and tiring, but you'd wear out the truck twice as fast as you would if you made those lights. It was a constant thing of playing these lights almost by instinct. This is all changed with the expressways. It's just as if automation had entered the trucking business. Now you pull out of U.S. Steel in Gary and you don't have a light until you drop off at the expressway in the city of Milwaukee. It's a miracle compared to what it used to be. So much easier on yourself, on your equipment.

Interesting bit on how expressways changed the economics of short-haul trucking

Since the wildcat strike of 1967 he's been an organizer for the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers (FASH). "Forty-six months trying to build an association, to give the haulers a voice and get 'em better working con-ditions. And a terrific fight with the Teamsters Union."

an unfortunate union name

Army #1 HOLDOVERS

remembering the people stuck at basic training

Thrifting a perfect-fitting pair of pants feels better than winning the lottery