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There is a cat in the car park. We repeat. THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK.

The flag of Ghana. Fuckery. That is not what Nithya looks like. Fuckery. And in a town that already has one industry dying and thousands of struggling artists, more slop. Fuckery. This deserves its irrelevancy.

pure fuckery.

For nearly 20 years, Read Books was a fixture of Eagle Rock’s quirky charm. Now, a 133% price hike has pushed the family-owned shop to close its doors, but not without a fight. latimes.com/entertainment-…

@BondJohnBond Extremely here for this very specific and correct take.

Has there ever been an album whose entire legacy is covered by one single track like “The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire? “Sprawl 2” is the only good song on the record but goddamn what a song.

@Biedersam Possibilities: Elliptical Girl, Barefoot Guy, Whoever Busted the Turtles Out of the Lab, Whoever Forgot They Were Saltwater Turtles And Put Them In The Freshwater Lake.

@Biedersam No, but neither did I. But it feels like we did. Someone we know must have. "What's wrong with them?" "They broke up with a Deep Springer." "Oh, I thought they just went to Montreal."

time once again for the decadal article about deep springs college

Beethoven was fucking deaf but yeah sure you need a robot to be creative for you

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

“Investigative journalism is an act of optimism.” Thrilled to announce the new @propublica Podcast “Paper Trail.” It’s going to be amazing! We will share our secrets and hopefully inspire you. Change is possible. Here’s the trailer: propublica.org/series/paper-t…

I can’t stand the way people that aren’t from here talk about LA. Los Angeles is more than West Hollywood or silverlake. Mfs swear it’s all transplants trying to get into show biz and completely disregard the millions of working class folks that have lived here for generations.

@SketchesbyBoze Plot twist, the first thing they have to read is "Infinite Jest." (Which, when I was a bookslinger, was my go-to rec for 20+ guys being dragged into the shop. It worked every time -- they always came back b/c it's funny and easier to read that ppl think.)

Incoming college freshmen should be assigned “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” in which Neil Postman argues that a video-centric society makes genuine learning impossible by turning everything into entertainment. The only way to defeat this, he suggests, is a return to reading.

Not to be dramatic, but if we lose @NYMag too, I might die

@AnnaHolmes Yesssssssssss

Announcing my first piece for the publication LA Material. Today: A story about a fascinating, anonymous artist whose canvas is Griffith Park…and subject matter (his project is called “The Hiding Man”) is both hilarious and extremely serious. lamaterial.com/p/hiding-man-o…

This week, a hot new paperback bombshell enters the villa bookshop.org/p/books/the-10… Both Booklist (“Readers will be enamored with Hanks’s curiosity and vivid imagery... like the best travel writing”) and Kirkus (“sparkling, somber, heartfelt, yearning”) gave it starred reviews, so

Daily Memo: The 15th Death In ICE Detention and ICE is Slowly Escalating. ICE’s slow increase in operations is now averaging about 30 kidnappings per week in Southern California.

@rilaws Perfect.

April O'Neil drunk one night:

This summer I'm making a movie and the Seed & Spark campaign JUST WENT LIVE! I'm making this w/ wildly talented ppl like Izzy Roland, Siobhan Thompson, Paul F Tompkins, Corin Wells, Vic Michaelis, Jill Petracek, Jon Mackey, Dhruv Singh, Alex Song-Xia & more! Link in next tweet!

@DwightGarner The rare interview that made my father cry!

Here's an instant pick-me-up: Kate Winslet on the BBC's Desert Island Discs podcast.