This is an intolerable humblebrag. No cavities and the dentist is trying to upsell you for literally hundreds of dollars? How awful for you. In my experience everyone is much more curteous and the experience is infinitely more painful and expensive. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

So happy to be joined by Paula Mejía in the category of Los Angeles Times expats opining on the LAest of shows. Pretty pretty pretty good breakdown here. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

I like to think of myself as the Joan Didion of watching Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I happen to have Renata Adler right here

Read all of this, including my short belated paean to the Brighton Beach banquet hall: grubstreet.com/article/best-n…

And someone has a disco ball out

Eclipse crescents

Let them (us) fight. (And yes okay this is correct)

Report from the in-laws' retirement community in South Jersey: 'We thought they were bombing the Pine Barrens again.'

4.8, that's respectable.

A beef I did not foresee...

I defnitely came away from covering an RFK Jr. fundraiser with this same question: If he's such a threat to Biden, why are his strongest supporters alienated MAGAs? nytimes.com/2024/04/04/opi…

Working with Jireh Deng 鄧以樂 was one of the greatest highlights of my LA Times era. What a star.

Gen Xers bringing shame upon us right now with bad tweets like “sure there was a lot of great music in the 90s but don’t sleep on the crap that was even more popular.”

One reason the ioniq5 is my electric car. It’s still mostly around the steering wheel.

Worries me that so many people here are going “death con 3” on … sitcoms.

Our Sunday section is glorious today

Both are unlikely but based on the history I’d put money on Putin over Ukraine as the secret power behind the attack.