The Joe Gross

“The gold medal is on a silver platter”

Nothing beats Olympic coverage

(documentary talking heads)
MARC MARON: you gotta understand, he put out FULL BLAST positivity CONSTANTLY — so naturally i could never stand him ha ha — but it blinded a lot of industry people
KEVIN JAMES: his positivity was magnetic
SILHOUETTE (clearly Baby Bop): Barney was.. a master manipulator

Outstanding

Tremendous use of the term outstate

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

THREAD, as it were.

Bingo.

This has big “if you know what this is, you are overdue for your colonoscopy” energy.

Respect.

Patti Smith Dream of Life is on Tubi if you’re tired of Olympics

Had no business working as well as it did.

And that actor in particular rules. Money in the bank since the early 90s

The anchors are hilarious

Terrific piece

The occasional news bullpens reminding you of the random pop culture stuff that is different is so great

I love that record. The vibe is so “we gotta get this out of our system, also we had a LOT of 3/5 done songs and MAY riffs hanging around…”

It’s a fantastic combination of awesome, goofy and boring. I love it so much.

Yellow Swans’ Gabriel Saloman Mindel Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis The noise-drone duo’s co-founder is crowdfunding treatment

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Yeah cuz it’s awesome

Gotta hand it to the new Game of Thrones series, it’s not a franchise I usually associate with words like “sweet” and “genuinely comedy funny” and “not endlessly rapey”

Actually said to myself how much this photo of Maddie looked like a painting yesterday and lo

Kinda rad if INDUSTRY wrapped up as a series with EVERYONE dead or totally broken from doing that do a living. Not just some unlucky folks — everyone.

I have a pretty serious (by normie standards) collection of mass market sci-fi and crime paperbacks. Forever the best format.

By which you of course mean DK2

This one was just added a couple weeks ago. archive.org/details/ajc0...

I mean… barely. And only for genre fiction, mostly thrillers and romances.

Srsly. I want to see these bands but I just can’t bring myself to pay $20 for parking.

Looking for evidence of Trump's guilt in the Epstein files is NOT like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It's like looking for a needle in a barrel of needles.

When Parking Costs Twice the Show’s Cover: hitting Red River in 2026.

…jfc