a good Nathan For You is when he tries to help a cabbie by hiring disgruntled cab drivers to work as Uber drivers, effectively recruiting a sleeper cell “to spread chaos across the globe.”

there needs to be a meta-analysis of the OJ coverage. he was 'polarizing'? what are the 'poles'? one end is 'good at football' and then its inverse is...'double-murderer'?

middle school albums eh...

did OJ open the door for Trump?
did the moon landing open the door for Trump?
did the Columbus expedition open the door for Trump?
did the first primordial cell subdividing, in the earth’s primitive, prebiotic soup open the door for Trump?

OJ trial was a weird one because he was very probably guilty. but also the cops were very probably racists who perjured themselves and tampered with evidence and handed “reasonable doubt” to the jury on a platter. they got him dead to rights on stealing his own shirts though.

I think if the baby is just trying to blow off some steam after work it shouldn't be a big deal

Supertramp is a fun case because they were basically assembled by an eccentric (Belgian, I think?) billionaire who wanted to make a band playing music he liked. and the result was: Supertramp.

i respect “online ceramics” for selling $75 primitive art t-shirts loaded with zen koans. sure, possessing them will only exacerbate the burden of the earthly suffering caused by attachment to material goods. but DAMN they’re nice!

i dont have time for this

things are mellowing out now that there are fewer people to kill. can happen!

between the OJ news and the Ohtani’s interpreter news, today did have a discernible Normish quality.

mrw an editor says 'we have a no footnotes rule':

this is a big thing for me. I’m not big on “psychology,” but it’s basically impossible not to pathologize these middle-aged weirdos who are singularly obsessed by trans identity. “I’m battling a cult!” sure! you sound SUPER sane.

“we respect the welder, who, barehanded, stole fire from the gods. and the mighty plumber! who commands the waves and tempests of our vast and hostile seas!”

i remember watching the last part of OJ: MADE IN AMERICA with my dad. when it got to Juice sticking up a vegas hotel room to steal his own jerseys, and showed his whole crew, my old man muttered, 'by god. what a collection of creeps.' very memorable and accurate assessment.

anyone in philly want to tickets to HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS at philamoca tonight? free to a good home. i was excited to see it but cannot go. let me know and i can 'transfer' via the accursed 'dice app.'

i have been waiting for this story for months. very interesting, if you're interested in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and when 'set and setting' goes uh....south.

nytimes.com/2024/04/11/wor…