Been in Los Angeles less than 24 hours and six people have asked if I’ve seen One Battle After Another and my response is “I’m on book tour. My life is one battle after another.”

Anyways. I’m talking with my king of LA @specktor.bsky.social, at Skylight tonight. I’m so psyched.

Hearing this in Mark E Smith’s voice really brings it to life

Good all-the-time record really. But Andrew, as usual, is on point here

“I’m so happy! Everything is terrible!” Go off, King!

Can’t get the first guy in this clip out of my head, frankly. The best kind of Italian

“They own the legal system” really makes you wonder both what world these people are presently living in and whether they just forgot the multiple sets of parentheses around the “they” here

Tomorrow night I’ll be at @skylightbooks.bsky.social with my pal @jasondiamond.bsky.social to discuss his rad, rad novel Kaplan’s Plot and we’d love it if you’d come through (Sandy Koufax possibly not included, tho we live in hope)

“A” musical sequence? Any faithful Pynchon adaptation of that—or even of Vineland, really—would be full on Busby Berkeley!

Yeah, the A-side is so good it’s easy to overlook, but man. Perfection

B-side of this one whips too:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulTM...

😍

It is not. I’m so sorry, Chris

That line hits a lot fucking harder now, man. Ouch

Man, you are too kind. Thank you for reading! 🙏

Nah, it’s all right. It happened long ago (sigh, I’m old) 💛

Oh man I love this somehow. (I wish I could ask her! Alas, she and Rod have both left the building 😢)

Was he? My mom (herself pretty tall—5’10”) dated him briefly before she met my dad, but I never thought to ask

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

No paywall on this LAT article (for once).

The Giants are six-and-a-half back and we play them seven times. At this point, I am actively rooting for the funniest possible outcome this year…

We can acknowledge this without abandoning these people to a white supremacist police state! Please imagine something beyond punishment.

Wrote about American Gigolo and the rise of the Armani Era for @gqmagazine.bsky.social

www.gq.com/story/how-gi...

Yep. She’s excellent

No kidding. 2015 is that way, ma’am