Feel like one interpretation is if you’re dressing like this then you’re dressing like that

Would give almost anything for a Decline of Western Civilization doc about this crowd

feel like for a while people went a little too hard on how important the beastie boys were and now, at a moment when the cultural barometer suggests they'd be having a revival, they're a nonpresence

Another thing no one’s talking about re: the return of 32” inseams: shoelaces come untied all the time now

had no idea 'blinded by the light' was a springsteen cover. the manfred mann version is obviously better but it made me think about how often bands in the 60s and 70s had big hits with relatively faithful covers of recent songs. I would've been annoyed?

Wow greg.org/archive/2024/0…

the key to being cool at parties, and to dressing cool, is to be cool. millennial cultural poptimists pretended otherwise and now poor 26-year-old anonymous letter writers don't know any better

For years, I've wanted to track down Ray Suzuki, the author of Pitchfork's infamous monkey-piss Jet review—a mysterious troll who changed music writing, for better or worse, and then disappeared. Well, for The Ringer, I found him, and a whole lot more:
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New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

I gentrified Williamsburg

When a guy’s driving really crazy and I see his car has a bunch of dents? It’s like, honestly, respect

look, it's not my thing artistically or politically, but in a world of diminishing authenticity it's reassuring to see a Republican reclaim the mantle of country music

I’m generally on the larger size of snapback hats, usually with only one or two dots left. Recently bought a ‘90s Padres hat tagged medium/large and I’m on the second tightest. Would love to get “men have smaller heads now” added to the millennial aging discourse

shane, let's talk. would be worth it just for the getting the gang back together montage (me visiting increasingly barren coworking spaces, set to a lite bossa nova cover of 'if the kids are united')
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Lots of cool footage in the Fugazi doc on Criterion. I get the sense it would’ve been a lot more fun to be in, say, Pavement

Accidentally bought a streetwear mug at Housing Works

I spent most of 2014 compulsively taking Adderall while ‘investigating’ Adderall. Wrote about that experience, and some of what I learned, for Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club…

I’m the guy who told Rebecca Solnit about her book. I was just kidding around

one more thing I'm not afraid to say: prince william is a decent looking guy