Astoria, Oregon, has one of the best settings of any small city in America. Victorian homes on the hills. Fishing boats on the Columbia. Fog rolling in from the coast. It just feels like the Pacific Northwest.

Steve Gleason is an amazing man. Suffering ALS. Equally as remarkable are his children caretakers. Take 2 mins and watch this astonishing level of love.

This is like one of those paintings from the Middle Ages where the longer you look at it the more you see

Carl Jung said that life begins at 40 and everything up until then is just research. can't stop thinking about that for two years now.

This reflects a cultural inversion where traditional deep reading no longer predicts real-world achievement compared to fragmented digital media habits. scary

What is scary about the end of literacy as a culture is that people who do sit down and read actual books are probably the losers now who can't function. The people who just are zonked out on various apps all day consuming short form video content are working jobs, buying homes, raising families.

REMINDER that Van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in a mental asylum, Dostoevsky wrote "The Gambler" to pay off gambling debts, and Dickens wrote "The Christmas Carol" when he was broke and his wife on their 5th child. Stress has produced more art than "slow saturdays" ever will

Enjoy

Monday Mood

This is America

There are places in West Virginia where it’s still the Nineties

29+ point LSU victories vs P4 teams: Lane Kiffin - 2 (in 3 games) Brian Kelly - 2 (in 40 games)

This is not an insignificant statement. LSU’s motion to dismiss was inevitable, and sovereign immunity was always lurking—hence the SEC’s reliance on Ex parte Young. I'm guessing the real story is bigger: the SEC is now openly framing this as a dispute over LSU’s commitment to conference rules and shared governance.

Me tomorrow watching Sam Leavitt scramble on 3rd & long

Oh this reminded me of this video which had Arrested development edited in a Succession style

Duncan Trussell recorded this conversation with his mother while she was facing terminal cancer. What you’re hearing isn’t scripted. It isn’t performed. It’s a son sitting with his dying mother trying to hold onto every word before the words run out. And she, the one facing the end, is the one doing the comforting. That is what makes these conversations so extraordinary. Not the wisdom itself, as profound as it is. But who it’s coming from. A woman who had every reason to be consumed by her own fear choosing instead to spend what little time remained helping her son understand how to live without her. These recordings became the heart of The Midnight Gospel. And I always go back to watch it again. They remain some of the most honest conversations about death, love and what it means to be human ever put on screen…

the tiny domesticated dog runs free while his wild wolf brethren pace the enclosure. much to think about as i log into microsoft teams this morning.

My wife begging me to get a job but I have to explain to her that Nietzsche said whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave

actually it's because rent used to be cheap in basically every US city and you could work like 3 days a week and live in a house with a basement or guest room where your band could practice and you could host shows.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese criminal gangs with links to the CCP have built an illegal cannabis empire in Siskiyou County, California. They're generating $2 billion a year in revenues and criminal growers are now 20% of the entire population. Gavin Newsom is doing nothing to stop them.