16 April 2024
✖︎The band’s music demands patience and attention, which it repays in beauty and transcendence, punctuated by occasional bursts of earworm jangle-pop or cathartic, pummelling storms of noise.
I only really got into Low with their last album—even still—I was devastated to hear of Parker’s passing. Optimistic for what comes next from Sparhawk.
12 April 2024
✖︎I’m trying out getting the LRB in print (I love their print format!) and really enjoyed this piece on language.
5 April 2024
✖︎Gold. Pure gold. Everything about this is top notch. Especially Willie Nelson. And there’s something about “frequently secretly” that feels nice.
4 April 2024
✖︎Haven’t been keeping up with links, but I had to make an exception. An amazing collective of guitarists and the video highlights each person’s name as they play so you can pick out their sound. Incredible. Probably Jeff Beck’s last recording too.
22 March 2024
✖︎My pitch for a show now that Curb is ending: it’s High Maintenance meets Curb Your Enthusiasm where it’s J.B. Smoove’s show, but he’s like “The Guy” from HM so the focus is never really on him and he can just improv his way through episodes like he does in Curb.
21 March 2024
✖︎If you ended up here via Ben’s [SIC], consider checking out my newsletter, foofaraw.
21 March 2024
✖︎While I wait for a writer co-op to come out of the ashes of Pitchfork, I’ve made a quick list of places that are writer-owned, with multiple writers, and not VC funded over on the newsroom blog.
21 March 2024
✖︎Another exciting co-op media company, this one is “a digital science magazine and newsletter run by four journalists whose writing covers all corners of science, the lives affected by it, the people doing it, and the craft of writing about it.” I’m going to need to create a database to track all of these sites.
19 March 2024
✖︎More Bears… I wonder how Allen feels now that he’s going to have a rookie QB.
19 March 2024
✖︎Old news at this point, but I had to capture for prosperity. Given they are drafting Williams, it’s probably the right move.
19 March 2024
✖︎Letterboxd for music and it’s pretty smooth so far. Going to keep it around for a bit. I’m @humdrum, as always.
19 March 2024
✖︎Cool project from The Pudding, although Are.na already did it 😝.
19 March 2024
✖︎Always one of the coolest things on the web. Stoked to dig into the new issue.
14 March 2024
✖︎Whelp, I went and did it. Follow along the behind-the-scenes of the foofaraw newsroom. I finally made the jump to Pika Pro now too.
14 March 2024
✖︎Been thinking about setting up a behind-the-scenes/change-log/making-of blog for foofaraw. I do some of this already in my Grub newsletter, but I think it’d be cool to have a record of trying to build a newsletter/zine thing from the ground up, as one person, with essentially zero dollars.
13 March 2024
✖︎I agree with a lot of this, but ultimately, it still comes down to the players. They should be docked a games worth of pay for every four calls they argue and are wrong about.
13 March 2024
✖︎Some positive news in the world of basketball! I haven’t been watching much, but Zion being Zion means sometimes good things can happen.
13 March 2024
✖︎Look at that, they’ve solved the worlds problems. Just close your eyes and it’ll be all better.
13 March 2024
✖︎Stop treating us like mutants, especially if you can’t bring yourself to understand that the mutants in X-Men were the ones being persecuted.
This shit is so depressing to read about. The vitriol from some people over others merely existing is just so sad.
13 March 2024
✖︎Lemon:
His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me.
I mean, yeah, we all knew that was the case. But good for Don in (likely) grabbing another paycheck while not having to do any work along with his CNN payout.
12 March 2024
✖︎This is too good to hold for the newsletter! Beau is Afraid was my #1 movie last year and to have Joaquin back alongside Stone and Pascal in the next one is mind-blowing to me.
12 March 2024
✖︎SharePoint + Slack + Arc = Muddy..? I don’t know. This app is definitely not for me, especially since I’m not looking for collaborative tools, but there’s some interesting stuff in there. The group surveillance aspect is pretty off-putting though.
11 March 2024
✖︎I got foofaraw listed on The Submission Grinder. I’m hoping this will help bring in some fiction contributions to the newsletter, and expanding what we can do with it.
10 March 2024
✖︎Meant to drop this in with the other SotU posts yesterday…
10 March 2024
✖︎My work suffers, of course. How could it not? I’m sadly not a perfectionist but, rather, an avoider and a regretter. There are periods when I will respond to e-mails at a reasonable pace, and then there’s the e-mail about a potentially lucrative project that I ignored for months. I haven’t even opened it; I don’t know what it says.
Boy, do I feel seen. Don’t even get me started on the “getting out of bed” section…
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