End of summer roundup

A call to abolish quote tweets, a theory on trend pieces, cats, movies...

Sep 1 • 

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June 2025

Fellas on Screen

On Friendship, Eephus, Vulcanizadora

Jun 19 • 

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May 2025

Toward a Unified Theory of Uncool

Considering the NBA's swag crisis, Zyn, and the West Village Girls

May 25 • 

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Do You Have Tequila, and/or Xanax?

A quick appreciation of Amalia Ulman's Magic Farm, my favorite movie of the year so far

May 21 • 

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Smug Conspiracism

Concerning The Shrouds, The Rehearsal, and Wolves-Lakers

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Smoke Shop America

Thinking about Skrillex, Baby Invasion, and Galaxy Gas

Apr 23 • 

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March 2025

MUSIC and the Eternal 2017

Some loosely collected thoughts on Playboi Carti's MUSIC

Mar 18 • 

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February 2025

Who The Hell Want Me?

Against the sports quote graphic industrial complex

Feb 13 • 

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January 2025

Hector Banana-bread and the Prison of Banger-Hunting

Tracing the dismal history of banger-hunting from Ellen DeGeneres to the present

Jan 16 • 

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LaMelo Ball and the Brainrotted Human Spirit

"Lamelo...to himself...oh yeah," or; toward a theory of LaMelo Ball as the first great Zoomer athlete

Jan 9 • 

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December 2024

The Never Hungover Best of 2024

Music, Movies, Books (Book?), Moments

Dec 3, 2024 • 

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November 2024

SCAM AMERICA 777

Another explanation for the conservative turn among young men

Nov 22, 2024 • 

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