The Long Happy Life of Damian Lillard

Typical Wednesday at work

One for the meme folder: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Another one for the meme folder: nytimes.com/2023/10/10/mag…

The world needs journalism lifers, and their lives should last far longer than 43 years… Pete Martini knew his calling. He loved local sports as much as anyone, and eloquently shared that love with his community each day. RIP to a good dude.

I am a man with a heart that offends / With its lonely and greedy demands / There's only a shadow of me / In a matter of speaking, I'm dead

I photographed the commencement ceremony at Willamette University when he and several others received honorary doctorates. After other long and florid speeches to the assembled graduates, it was Edwards' turn. I remember that he spoke for only a few seconds: "Give 'em hell."

Elliott Smith’s publicist, who had a crush on my gf, invited Elliott out to drinks with us to try to impress her.

Absolutely insane to see this so close to home. Mind-blowing. #aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights

The pain of representing pain...

This reads like the last line of some lost stanza of The Waste Land

Realizing I have the same illness is one reason why I left journalism

Took some time off this hellsite and my algorithm apparently reset. So I dipped back in at just the right time to find that everyone on my timeline is arguing about which DeLillo is better than which Bolaño is better than which Cormac McCarthy. Which is weird but nice, I guess?

Steve Jensen, “Smoke from the demolished power plant forms a human like figure” (2016)

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. — Omar El Akkad

🤷🏻‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/thomas…

people in sf love to ask me "what do you think your purpose is??" ten minutes after meeting me. i try to relay this two-paragraph borges story to them in response and they usually like that

This moment had a lasting effect on me

Emotional about these cave paintings again