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Tove Jansson’s novel of Florida’s geriatric capital features dreadful sons, rocking-chair rebellions, and a boys’ choir. @therealbradbabs reviews the new English translation of “Sun City,” out now from NYRB Classics. thebaffler.com/latest/death-i…

this is a newsletter #51: venom, dracula, sheets, love is blind! open.substack.com/pub/thisisanew…

met the mayor of rome

was very cool to write about one of my favorite directors for one of my favorite publications!!!

i wrote about how spike lee uses the heist genre to tell stories about war & money for @bwdr: brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/09/12/ste…

go bears

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The Somerville dems should be ashamed of using lies and conservative attacks against a progressive champion @erika4rep that the people of Somerville have already elected twice. Beyond that, it’s also completely hypocritical, so let’s talk about why this is so shameful 🧵

the hornby campaign has been exceptionally dishonest about hornby’s “accomplishments” and erika’s short comings and it’s not surprising that somerville dems, which seems to maybe be the vanity project of the toddler who ran for my ward’s city council seat, is in her camp

really glad to see this full-throated endorsement of erika uyterhoeven, signed by every good elected official in the city. a strong rebuke of “somerville” democrats” endorsement of kathleen hornby for state rep rand-wilson.medium.com/somerville-dem…

On Kevin Costner, from @therealbradbabs thedriftmag.com/mention/summer…

you ever think about how much time you’ll spend filling out captchas in your life

@walletcheck holy shit

these millennials and their participation trophies smh

joe biden: [nixon voice] i'm not a corpse

on the one hand, that went really badly.

newsletter 46: i wrote about deep state movies (JFK, inside out 2) and relief pitching, rachel wrote about hacks, the circle, making your bed, and more: open.substack.com/pub/thisisanew…

i wrote about furiosa and the fall guy. rachel wrote about deal or no deal island, diet coke, and more: open.substack.com/pub/thisisanew…

@sarahroseetter @incepthion lmao

@incepthion @therealbradbabs

scorsese in the back 😭