very nice to see SIMPLICITY (in bookstores everywhere fyi) on the pw critics' poll~ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
10.12.2025 13:53 — 👍 99 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0@joegross.bsky.social
Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
very nice to see SIMPLICITY (in bookstores everywhere fyi) on the pw critics' poll~ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
10.12.2025 13:53 — 👍 99 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0Same!
10.12.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Less than you’d think OR my hearing is just shot. I am genuinely unsure which it is.
10.12.2025 14:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pearl Harbor and Interstellar are way up there.
10.12.2025 06:16 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👀👀
10.12.2025 05:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Something that boggles my mind a little is that in 1977 Fredric Jameson gave a series of lectures to 25 or so people in Minnesota & one of them had a cassette recorder. And this year we remastered those cassette tapes & around 14,000 people in 53 countries heard those lectures.
10.12.2025 01:33 — 👍 113 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1Today is the Day, full burn
10.12.2025 02:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
10.12.2025 02:00 — 👍 908 🔁 322 💬 17 📌 8RT if you agree (or whatever it is called here).
10.12.2025 02:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, SOMEONE isn’t voting for the popist
09.12.2025 23:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think what the GOP Congress don't understand, or don't care about, is the extent to which:
a) the removal of the ACA's premiums credit will wreck consumer spending if those ACA users try to cut $ corners to afford health care, and
B) ACA users think of that hike as a possible death sentence.
Listening to a lot of The Mavericks today in honor of the passing of Raul Malo, a simply unforgettable singer who was one of the great male voices in pop music. He was 60. RIP. apnews.com/article/raul...
09.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Jimmy Fallon: And you say you have a bridge to sell?
Guest: That's right. The Brooklyn Bridge.
Audience: *halfhearted claps*
Fallon (nodding at the audience): It's a famous bridge.
Fallon (turning back to guest): That's amazing! Wow!
60 years of Peanuts holiday specials. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS debuted December 9, 1965.
www.kcra.com/article/60-y...
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
oh, dear
09.12.2025 17:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Peace to my man Barry Louis Polisar for getting that good, good Lay's synch ad money.
09.12.2025 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Impressed and repulsed by the cartoonish supervillainy at work here.
09.12.2025 15:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He told them to put the whiskey in the jar
09.12.2025 15:45 — 👍 618 🔁 39 💬 42 📌 0Stylish but illegal monkey found roaming Toronto IKEA
Oh shit, it's Stylish But Illegal Monkey Day
09.12.2025 14:02 — 👍 547 🔁 190 💬 17 📌 17Dems won't be able to block a Netflix Warner Brothers merger. Our regulators and courts have been hollowed out like Pumpkins. But you might be able to stop Larry Ellison, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump from buying up all media and turning us into Hungary.
09.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 50 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.
09.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 585 🔁 116 💬 7 📌 8This review *also* mentions America’s new favorite character, Recapricorn.
07.12.2025 18:08 — 👍 50 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Well, this is a tremendous list
09.12.2025 09:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0oh just toughen up and dive into that hellscape
09.12.2025 02:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Look, man, you fix air travel, you could be President. But this is bullshit and you know it.
09.12.2025 00:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would prefer protection from predatory pricing and mandated easy refunds, thanks!
08.12.2025 21:27 — 👍 2662 🔁 383 💬 133 📌 12I wonder if there has been a spike in road rage incidents at night now that we are several years after the introduction of LED headlights.
09.12.2025 00:14 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Sometimes alphabetical order creates little juxtapositional epiphanies. Just slotted a Todd Rundgren record in between Roxy Music and the Rutles, and thought "yes, that is the perfect place for him to go".
08.12.2025 17:13 — 👍 213 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1Kudos to HBO’s I LOVE L.A. for making me happier to be born prior to, say, the Carter administration, than anything I have encountered in a good long time.
08.12.2025 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0