the full spread is even better 🙂 fresh, green life will be out june of next year

every public sycophant and world loser seems to love AI, majority of artists and other cultural figures with a modicum of intelligence is against it. it’s impossible to say who’s right

2026 Standards of Care in Diabetes Published

This world is so beautiful that sometimes I can hardly believe it exists

one of my favorite final lines from a book, from keith waldrop’s light while there is light. rip. reissued next year from nyrb

nyu party in 2012 i fell asleep at because i was bored the city was alive it was better than may 1968 or the paris commune or anything

chat gpt tends to use em dashes like a journalist because that's how it's been trained. more common use (parenthetical, longer dependent clause toward the end of a sentence) still reads as human to me. sometimes i use em dashes, colons, and semicolons in a single sentence—for fun

favorite first watches of this year: the long day closes, my winnipeg, imitation of life, shoplifters, where is the friend's house?, good morning, running on empty, battle of algiers, female trouble. but my favorite thing i watched was the 1981 brideshead revisited miniseries

i go outside and am accosted everywhere by the brutal cold and wind, the world itself now war, all men against god and nature. but i'm happy for you winter people

sharp pins, great argument for if you write good songs that sound like all those other songs i already like then i'll like your songs

art of the deal

just remembered i had a dream last night they rebooted john berger's ways of seeing and john wilson was the new host, except instead of european oil painting he talked mostly about street trash

{overtaking a horrifying car crash on my bike} OK Vroomer 😭😤 {notices that my cousin is in it} Nathaniel!!!!!!!!!

i needa one dance

anyone know a fun gift guide and/or made one

christmas has come early

beautiful essay

funny how often academics in the humanities are portrayed as frivolous ivory tower dandies who write poetry by moonlight and have 6 months off a year when all those people are working like 50 hours a week and the academics with the actual cushy jobs are economists

this video used to frighten me as a child. but it really is remarkable, amazing use of the pyscho sample and probably my favorite hype williams video

i've been down lately about how, as an adjunct, i've made the same salary since 2016, which adjusted for inflation is less money every year. but now i realize i need to release 1997's sensational yet disquieting single "gimme some more" for success in my career

never thought i’d see this image referenced in a novel. props @bartlebytaco

positive things about my father