Uber driver pulled up in a car with a bumper sticker that says “PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION”

This is Berber Kramer of #ECON5k fame! Congrats!

In northern New Mexico with mom and sister, 1980 or so.

For folks who knew my mom: we’re having a memorial service for her on April 20 at 4pm, at Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas. My sister Laura and I will be reading from the Bible, so do not want to miss this!

obits.dallasnews.com/us/obituaries/…

Goats wondering where the sun went.

did the Smashing Pumpkins ever get around to crucifying the insincere or no

Was in church listening to the choir this morning and had a sudden flashback to the time, decades ago, that the director of my church’s youth handbell choir pulled a gun on me

heartwarming TV movie idea: a radical white supremacist looking for a militia to join (“a vanilla militia”) accidentally becomes part of a Milli Vanilli tribute band and kinda goes with it, and traveling the country with the band he realizes we are all united by a love of music

Noting that the IDF seems to have hit the Iranian embassy in Syria while Prime Minister Netanyahu was incapacitated.

oh my goodness

I wrote an essay called 'They do build statues of critics'. It includes a defense of Nope (2022), an ode to Patricia Lockwood, a critique of Didion, and a reference to the Boss Baby meme. Here's a picture of Roger Ebert (right).

rottenandgood.substack.com/p/they-do-buil…

<fires up grill>