Brian Stephen Ellis

I hate this. I love sports, I love the Trail Blazers. But the way professional sports in this country scam cities into paying for their stadiums is a fucking crime.

October, Chapter Eighteen: The Week Everyone Was Doing Whip-Its Monday It was the afternoon, and I was in bed reading The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll.

I tried to re-watch Ally McBeal recently and decided it wasn't very good. But I was glad to find it a spot in this, its popularity seemed fixed in a very particular place and time, along with late night reruns.
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Yes, I know my phone and computer are listening to me. Which is why I whisper, "please don't update" to them every day.

There is a TV show that exists between s1 e4 and s1 ep25 of Melrose Place that is very different than the show Melrose Place is known for, and it is a much more interesting, nuanced and likable show.

"The proposed deal has attracted a lot of criticism, largely because it sucks. That’s a broad statement, so let me be more specific: It only sucks for every affected industry, the United States, and humanity as a whole."

LARPing is alot healthier and more strenuous of an activity than alot of the things you all ridicule by comparing it to LARPing

WAIL TALE would make great knuckle tats

October, Chapter Seventeen: The First Fight The next day.

Fighting is so random and spastic. Too fast in some places and dragging in others. There is rarely a good narrative to a fight, and a fight has never been beautiful.

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Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Dreamed I bought a two-player ttrpg Sonic the Heghog game. The characters were pre-made and the game was GM-less, you just ran it out of the booklet. It was very fun!

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

“[People in the plastics industry] are very happy for us to look at ourselves and at each other, and not look at them,” says @bethgardiner.bsky.social, author of "Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future."

Asking “are you mad at me?” when the venue doesn’t give you a drink ticket

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

This eulogy is so keen, and heartbreaking. I’m scared for us, y’all. It’s not just the Washington Post (or even just books coverage); across the board, incisive and productive coverage of the arts is being erased.

I Didn’t Know Aphrodite Until We Sat Next To Each Other In History Class Sophomore Year Aphrodite comes over to my house every day after school. Aphrodite likes Euphoria. Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater onl...

"Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater online. Aphrodite wants to be Sydney Sweeney."

New 🔥 story by @pamavoledo.bsky.social up today at Pool Party!!!

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it’s really annoying that the ‘defund the police’ conversation in the mainstream is only ever “should we have more or less police officers?” and not the “police officers shouldn’t be armed with riot gear and tanks and also can kill people” conversation

October, Chapter Fifteen: The Discrete Hierarchical Methodology of Sleeping on a Sectional Couch Elliot moving into the big bedroom with me shifted the entire hierarchy of who slept on the couch and where.

This is my favorite chapter title in the book.
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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Curling transfers surprisingly well to vertical, short form video

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!

Has there been a useful technology invented in the last 10 years?

Okay, I have just seen the movie "Chromiumblue.com" and NEED an hour and a half oral history of this movie.

"Outlander" is just the Sub Rosa TV show

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The connection between Abu Gharib and the concentration camps of ICE is a straight line

No number of paintings of amputated vets are going to bring back the million people that died because of the invasion of Iraq!

@corybooker.com sir.

Robert Yeoman covers curling

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

We didn't need it before 9/11 and it's only been a nightmare since. So.