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One of my favorite online moments was when a few years ago, the Youths discovered that Moby-Dock kind of slaps. I'm hoping the same can happen with another Melville classic: that diva of "I can't even," Bartleby The Scrivener www.gutenberg.org/files/11231/...

Excerpt from the book: "In this very attitude did I sit when I called to him, rapidly stating what it was I wanted him to do-namely, to examine a small paper with me. Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, "I would prefer not to."
I sat awhile in perfect silence, rallying my stunned faculties.
Immediately it occurred to me that my ears had deceived me, or Bartleby had entirely misunderstood my meaning. I repeated my request in the clearest tone I could assume. But in quite as clear a one came the previous reply, "I would prefer not to."
"Prefer not to," echoed I, rising in high excitement, and crossing the room with a stride. "What do you mean? Are you moon-struck? I want you to help me compare this sheet here-take it," and I thrust it towards him.
"I would prefer not to," said he."

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 5h

Spotted this one yesterday and it’s got a late-Cronenbergian tone

Small box on a warehouse shelf with the slogan “Dreams begin with Dream egg”

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 28/09/2026

Here's the invitation design fyi

Bold design with a red background, and the word PINXTOS in the playful Basque typeface; the letter T is extended so it looks like a toothpick, skewering the words "things on toothpicks, sometimes on bread, it's like tapas, but Basque". Surrounded by isolated photos of various pintxos food.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 28/09/2026

One food party per month, September: following our trip to Basque Country, it’s a Pintxos party. Li’l toothpicked things, heavy on the seafood.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 27/09/2026

Blueberry focaccia is done, come downstairs

12” round focaccia dotted with blueberries, and drizzled with lemon-almond icing. Folded into the dough is lemony blueberry jam

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 26/09/2026

Now that I need reading glasses, I’ve started keeping my “computer glasses” in this fuzzy cup on the desk. My wife points at them and makes a honking kind of laugh. I think it’s convenient and smart and a little rebellious. AITA

Busy office desk with a white fabric cup, fuzzy-lined, holding my glasses

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 25/09/2026

I just think it's beautiful that for the past 16 years, I've had "1 movie rental" in the, uh, App Store

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 22/09/2026

The dream… Being able to copy programs onto cheap cassette tapes was beautiful, struggling to load anything off of them taught you to also hate computers a little ✌️

Commodore 64, its tape deck, and a blue cassette tape on top

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 22/09/2026

Ahh, the little shelf I assembled came with this reusable tool—amazing! Now, to store it in the tool box… looking forward to using it frequently

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 22/09/2026

What the hell…… we’re not ready for what’s coming

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 21/09/2026

Also, pointed out by @andy.baio.net: UBS was one of the proposed names for FOX in the 80s. The other one was…

Screenshot of Wikipedia: According to historical reports, executives with the proposed Fox network were so intent on competing with the "big three" that, for the initial branding, the network was set on copying the naming trend of the "big three" by using the "FBC" initialism (copying "NBC", "CBS, & "ABC") of the network's corporate name. Other
proposed names for Fox were "Universal
Broadcasting System" (UBS) and
"International Broadcasting System" (IBS).

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 21/09/2026

A discovery made while reading John Godey’s ‘The Taking of Pelham 123’: in 1973, he invents the fictional broadcast network UBS. Three years later, what does Chayefsky name the fictional network in Lumet’s ‘Network’? My 70s boys, hanging out together 😁

From the book: The news departments of the stations-networks and locals-sent crews with mobile equipment winging off downtown. Universal Broadcasting System, the largest of the networks, sent the largest and most plushly equipped crew of any and, in addition, dispatched Stafford Bedrick, their news superstar,

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 21/09/2026

‘I/O’, found art, 2026

Local theater’s urinal against a fun beige checker tile. On the urinal, someone left a soda cup

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 20/09/2026

The chain theater near us somehow has this inexplicable item on the menu, scrolled off onto its own carousel page like a speakeasy. They’re totally fine and they come with green chutney! (Also Resident Evil was super fun)

TV menu board saying HOT FOODS Samosas $6.85. Next to it, a picture of pretzel bites. Below, POPCORN

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 20/09/2026

I thought of this because

A hand holding a homemade pretzel bagel sandwich with egg and Gouda

A cooling rack with a bunch of pretzel bagels; some plain, some everything seasoning

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 20/09/2026

The dream of the 90s is alive in the garden center

Bags and bottles of garden products, all with very 1990s, colorful designs featuring wacky illustrations

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 14/09/2026

Platonically ideal restaurant aesthetic… We were grabbing lunch for the drive home so I went with my battle-tested road trip food: shrimp cocktail. Bright, cooling, sits beautifully on a stomach that’s seated for hours.

CRAB! in Newport, OR. An unassuming kitchen with lots of signs advertising different seafoods

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 14/09/2026

Roku is the only channel I’ve seen run their corner bugs all the way to the edge of the screen. Everyone else leaves a safety margin like we still have fishbowl screens.

Corner of my screen with the Roku Sports Channel graphic run all the way into the corner

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 13/09/2026

Beautiful! My brother started doing it a few years ago, and I just added a tattoo of one of his spoons

My arm with a spoon tattoo, holding said spoon

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 13/09/2026

Visiting the aquarium to pick up some character name ideas

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 13/09/2026

Biscuits made with what was left over in the rental-house kitchen. Remember: mix by folding and stacking.

Plate of golden brown, flaky, square biscuits

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 12/09/2026

hey thanks man. I’ll send more later if that’s ok

My hand holding a big puff pastry cookie

Gift shop at the Oregon state hospital museum of mental health

The back of a parking sign covered with Stickers

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 12/09/2026

Focaccia with 15% whole wheat flour. It’s honest grub.

Very bubbly and golden focaccia, with two slices showing a speckled cream interior structure

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 09/09/2026

Gnocchi two ways: vodka sauce, mushroom/caramelized onion/blue cheese. “Why choose”

Two pans of gnocchi, one red, one white.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 08/09/2026

PDX Food: take a road trip to Don Froylan in Salem! They're a maker of Mexican cheeses—available in some stores in town—with a restaurant and store of their own. Tons of excellent cheeses to sample and ask for in your quesadilla etc. donfroylancreamery.com

Long row of fridges with cheeses, including samples

Production floor where employees are stretching queso Oaxaca

Table covered with various cheese-heavy Mexican dishes

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 08/09/2026

Some of us prefer to bring a more experienced, confident green in bed

Serious Eats screenshot: FOOD INDUSTRY | 17 HOURS AGO
It's Getting Harder to Find Mature Spinach. Here's Why That Matters
By Daniel Grittier

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 07/09/2026

Labor Day pie. I guess

Large 14” pizza, half cheese, half mushroom. Both have sliced provolone, fresh mozzarella, Parmesan. Mushroom side has garlic, goat’s milk Gouda, black pepper, parsley.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 07/09/2026

Those look ace! A friend who worked at Pine State told me what he learned was to mix by folding, and to do way more than the 3-4 folds recipes recommend.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 05/09/2026

These days, apps just casually have completely insane wording

Dialog saying

Show more
Discover more on for you
Go to for you

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 04/09/2026

New tattoo day: a spoon carved by my older brother, plus parsley fill

My forearm with a fresh tattoo of a brown wooden spoon and parsley; next to tattoos of oregano, a knife, a pine marten, a chanterelle

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 04/09/2026

I knew how this would go: only lukewarm preferences on most questions, and I’d change my answer depending on who I was talking to. I learned British English in school in Croatia until college, then moved to FL, then OR. My map is just “exported US culture.” mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Heat map of the used where the hot areas are LA and NY; a touch of hot in Texas and Miami.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 03/09/2026

Quick little 2-in-1 for lunch at the office… Lazily stirred the dough before leaving for work, it was ready to pan up by 11. The white side is provolone, sharp cheddar, fresh mozz, ricotta, garlic.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 01/09/2026

AI summaries of Amazon reviews all go like this. Some customers say it’s a great purchase and definitely worth the money, while others say it’s a stupid piece of shit that killed their dog

Amazon screenshot: Customers say
Customers find the bug zapper fun to use, particularly for catching mosquitoes, and appreciate its ease of use. The battery life receives mixed feedback - while some say it lasts about 6 hours, others report batteries running down quickly. Customers disagree on the zapper's effectiveness, with some reporting it kills flies while others say it doesn't work at all. Durability is also mixed, with some saying it's built to last while others report it breaking after three weeks. The noise level gets mixed reactions, with some finding the loud pop satisfying while others say it doesn't make any sound. Value for money is also mixed, with some considering it worth the price while others say it's not worth buying. ai, Generated from the text of customer reviews

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 31/08/2026

damn I like a readable, editable, functional URL. By far the fastest UI for tweaking this.

Url with the parameter ?cal_date=2027-01-01

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 29/08/2026

when u say u loved boyz n the hood more than the red shoes

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 28/08/2026

I love this Portland project—filling random road and sidewalk holes with small mosaics. Mending the world with art. www.reddit.com/user/FillThe... www.instagram.com/fillthevoidpdx

road mosaic with the Grateful Dead skull and the text "if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind"

road mosaic with a sign saying "no seagulls" topped with an actual seagull

road mosaic with a cute rat, the trans flag colors, and the text "hot rat summer"

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 28/08/2026

Let's wrap up this week with a bang

selfie where I'm holding a mug with a picture of a dog reading a book titled BONES and behind it it says EVERYBODY READS

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 27/08/2026

buying tickets today and being lectured by the airline about my poor choices

Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction in the scene where they're wearing dorky clothes. The subtitle is altered to say "Ha-ha, they're your basic economy tickets motherfucker"

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 27/08/2026

My favorite brand of instant noodles is “add a lap cheong sausage”

Bowl of You Ni Yi Mian noodles with added Chinese sausage and broccoli

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 26/08/2026

As the Dubai Chocolate hangover dissipates, left behind is a residue of pistachio as a snack flavor; this is good and proper, as it's the best of nuts, and underused. Ritter Sport wisely waited for this phase so they could launch a gimmick-free chocolate bar. Of course, it's great: salty and strong.

A square bar or Ritter Sport pistazie flavor chocolate

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 24/08/2026

Even a mall food court contains wonders for those with eyes to see. (These were on the side of a burger place’s menu, which is how you know it’s a passion and not a cash grab ❤️)

Two pupusas with tomato sauce and curtido on a paper plate on a red lunch tray

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