Sideshow Kobb

Hair up // hair down // etc

An update from the Mayor Lurie gay adult film team - in response to our questions. The story has been updated.

47 years ago, May 21 1979, over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots

It's hard to read Tokarczuk's use of AI as disconnected from the wave of churn-it-outism that increasingly blurs the line between experimental literature and content production.

Some tenant advocates and tenant unions have been calling on the RGB to not just freeze the rent (0% increase) but decrease it by 12%, reversing the rent increases the RGB passed during Adams’ term.

Touching his circumsizion scar: you know they control the banks too

🚨 Praxis Alert 🚨

how wonderful it is that flowers can be consumed as tea. rose, hibiscus, chrysanthemum, lotus, butterfly pea, chamomile, lavender, calendula, jasmine, passion flower. this is what fairies drink

there is no prestige to be found in anti-Palestinian institutions. we lose literally nothing by divesting from them. there's no point in being valued by an institution that does not value human life

I should be allowed to connect to the mycelium network

my novel’s narrator is a sentient waterslide in an Adjuncts-Only Waterpark at the Boston Marriott during MLA, so the formal dilemma was how to render the slide’s orgasmic pleasure as the exploited bodies cascaded down its wet chutes while still being true to the spirit of Boston

i can’t stop thinking about this sign at joe and the juice. what does it mean

One of the oldest Mission taquerias being forced out by their landlord more than doubling their rent.

The Helen DeWitt incident really does highlight the divide in modern literary culture between rare but true genius and the dominant hyper professionalism/MFA culture that privileges self-promotional skill over actual literary work

Porcelain Soviet space dog decanter.

Naturally-produced salmon have hatched in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in a century. Salmon returned to the upper river in fall 2024 following the largest dam removal project in US history. Now, they appear to have reproduced: tinyurl.com/4ws6tew4

It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive. thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/…

My dream of being a poet vanished like a thing in a whatever.

There is no better feeling as a creative writing professor than identifying a student with talent and encouraging them to keep writing—so amazing to be responsible for this single moment that will ruin their life