Podcast Episode · Linoleum Knife · September 30 · 55m

There's an October heatwave coming in a couple days and the forecast says it's going last more than a week. These are the meteorological vicissitudes of Los Angeles. I won't be cooking unless it's at ...

I have a 2000s-era iPod, and it contains exactly 29,804 songs that can never be updated because I have no more iTunes. Everything is inside that little flat box forever. None of it is leaving. It live...

There's a line in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Somehow, I've become very c...

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Not long ago, someone posted this video to YouTube from a VHS recording. It’s 61 minutes long, from a Mudhoney show that I attended, May 12, 1989 at the University of London's School of Oriental and A...

A mid-1970s newspaper ad for a local movie theater features two programs. In the afternoon there was a children's matinee of a 1956 Margaret O'Brien musical called Glory, and the evening double featur...

There's a one-off character that exists in the world of the Peanuts comic strip. Technically, he has no name. He also has no face, as we see him only from behind. He's a kid Charlie Brown meets at sum...

I read the recent New Yorker article about "performative reading," (behind a paywall? maybe) and if you haven't heard that term yet, it's because you're not on the poison internet unless you have to b...

Unmarried people can't have sex, unless it's done on one specific, government-approved, Purge-style night. This is how your script gets on the Black List. Of course, in the confounding, oblivious One...

A Pool Day is different from a Pool Morning. Pool Morning is when I go to the West Hollywood Aquatic Center at 6am for the purpose of exercise. It's a habit but not a pleasure. On Saturday, when it w...

Last week, Alonso, who likes for me to share in the miserable information he finds online, sent me a link to WorseOnPurpose.com It's an addictive and depressing site devoted to brutal facts about cor...

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* Behind me in line at the grocery store checkout, she said, "You've only got one life, you have to do something with it. Our brains were made to absorb infinite information. The scientists say we're ...

Fiume o morte! is a slyly entertaining film about a dreadful subject, but don't feel too left out if you didn't know it existed. It went from film festivals in 2025 to a European release to a very lim...