It started as a serial on the SCP Wiki, based on SCP-055, and since spiraled out into a novel. now self-contained and in stores Nov 11

and of course we are all being reduced to it, inexorably and slowly

the bald language of survival and terror

Conservative influencer Dinsdale Piranha has been sadly crushed by a sixteen ton weight. Known for sparking controversial but spirited debate on race, sexuality, gender identity, and nailing people's heads to the floor in the UK and abroad, Piranha has been described as "a cruel man, but fair."

That's a very good Hitchcock

It's a consequence of television and films converging in the public consciousness. A season of television is being reviewed as if it a film, a finalized and whole product that can be examined fully on its own merits, rather than a potential first installment of a growing and organic thing.

I don't think it's some grand insight to suss out the general social preference is for a guy who is charming, supportive, doesn't make a fuss over his basically lukewarm-to-decent politics, and isn't a neurotic loudmouth.

I don't know, this is a very strange essay. Isn't Tatum good friends with Roxane Gay? You're telling me Hasan Piker and Stavros Halkias are "placid and politically ambiguous?" The talking points include 1) something about the proliferation of "chad" memes and 2) Bad Bunny wears nail polish?

this choreopoem's got a lot more submarine facts than I remember

Could be wrong but do Midtown, LES, much of North Brooklyn, and every part of the Village primarily count as "boutique or club with A-list publicist" under this hierarchy?

The world's first mammal was invented by Rick Mammal, subsistence farmer from Kentucky turned director of commerce for president John Quincy Adams. Abraham Lincoln later praised Adams for his contributions to the animal kingdom. Prior to the invention of the mammal most animals were bugs or birds.

Sports betting should just be a weaselly guy named Rocky in a dingy basement making calls on horse races, he should have a pinstripe suit and a greasy mustache, and I get to rough him up on occasion with my henchmen.