Kevin Smokler

Scoop! Bottom of the Hill will live to see 2027. Interview with all three co-owners plus the club’s incoming proprietor today on @coyotemedia.org 🤘 www.coyotemedia.org/bottom-of-th...

RE: The Nathan Fielder/ Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Is this just white-guy-being-cheeky-and-ironic about someone who is, at heart, a felon and not a very good person? (see Ben Folds writing a song about Bristol Palin). Eager to be wrong so if I am please say so.

This is the trailer for Greta Gerwig's new movie, out Feb 12. It contains perhaps the biggest flex I have ever seen in a two minute trailer. Can you guess what it is? (via @kottke.org )

Wanna build Brutalist Architecture...for fun? There's a game for that. (via benbrown.com/home/ ) placeholders.itch.io/tiny-brutalism

#TiL a "demonym" is the term for the noun of a person from a particular place. Examples... New Yorker, Parisian, African. (via www.inconspicuous.info/p/short-take... )

An Australian museum exhibit is the first of its kind, demonstrating through drawings, video footage and archives, how Jim Henson and his puppeteers build their characters one at a time, by hand. www.itsnicethat.com/features/mak...

The Number Museum is a Museum of oddly specific numbers and the stories behind them (via iwebthings.joejenett.com ) numbermuseum.com

Marginalia Search is a search engine that prices open source and non-commercial sources with Privacy settings on by default. (via bubbles.town) marginalia-search.com

Will be seeing THE SOCIAL RECKONING as a person deeply unimpressed with THE SOCIAL NETWORK. And wondering if this makes me a crowd or a focus group of one?

Can't wait to read this.

What am I, 23, Movie Grid Game? How many movies does Sebastian Stan have on his resume that do not involve superheros?

I am the person who has mixed up Anne Carson and Anne Sexton more than once.

Primo Levi

Two writers I have a very long history with. Come through! It's gonna be great!

No To AI is a guide to removing intrusive AI from your favorite/most used software. Put together by my old friend (and genius) @librarian.bsky.social notoai.org

San Francisco is the only city in America that values Democracy so much that it doesn't believe an election counts the first time and everything is up for a revote every cycle. This issue has been decided already. The park won. The freeway lost. www.savesunsetdunes.org

If you think MOVIES ARE OVER, you are all of the things described below...and also a very boring person.

There needs to be a conference for oldest children to attend as we have unique perspectives and grievances. Problem is, every attendee would take too much responsibility for it.

Yes, @nytwirecutter.bsky.social also reviews Tinned Fish

The American Art of Slugging Nazis. artsfuse.org/335084/arts-...

I am going to hate the answer to "What is Literary Substack?" so much that I'm not even going to go looking for it. If you wish to... (via www.aldaily.com ) paroxysms.substack.com/p/what-is-li...

Dear @clivethompson.bsky.social or any of my fellow Gen Xers from Southern Ontario, SE Michigan...Did you have any of the Peter Puck books?

#TIL "Grab and go" handrolls are apparently an Australian thing?

What a dope. Hurricanes and Famines "get something done" also but should be wishing for more of them? (via @jamellebouie.net )

Please use the following phrase in a sentence.... "Shooting at the walls of heartache..."

And while we're at it, how about how long it will take the next administration (and the one after that and after that) to undo the damage...

Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the September 11 attacks. In 2021, Jennifer Senior wrote about grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the decades since 9/11. Revisit the Pulitzer Prize–winning story: theatln.tc/lUQH2ThM

Perpare to loose a year of your life at minimum on this giant archive of profiles of great coffee packaging and design. sprudge.com/design

Between you, me and Mr. Roboto, this is more guys than were ever in STYX during their heyday. And this is minus their original drummer who is deceased. Did STYX decide to let Pookie from the neighborhood be part of their Vegas residency?

73 Logos with Hidden Meanings. Also known as pure crack. designbro.com/blog/inspira...

Hayao Miyazaki is 85 years old. What will be next for the world he created, Studio Ghibli? (via @longreads.com ) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

#TIL that Ebenezer Scrooge, despite, well, never existing, has his own gravestone in Shropshire, England. Don't go leaving fruitcakes there come December, ya hear? www.atlasobscura.com/places/ebene...

If you use a service and WISH it had RSS feeds (you know if you are this sort of person) there's a good chance Open RSS has solved this problem for you. (via @32bit.cafe ) openrss.org/feeds

There are roughly 2000 tool libraries (i.e. a "library of things" where you can borrow a lawn mower or knife set or stapler for free) worldwide. It's also suprisingly easy to set up your own. www.shareable.net/toolkit/libr...

Perhaps you are a giant nerd for typefaces as I am. If so, an open source type foundry called The League of Moveable Type has a newsletter that will send you a Typeface of the Week as well as other word(l)y gems. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/newsletter (via www.are.na/maia-welbel)

Australia is considering passing a law called MY FEED MY WAY that mandates giving IG users the choice to see everyone they follow and weed out suggestions by algorithms entirely. How can I vote over your way @rossfloate.bsky.social ? (via Bubbles.town)

This being the second night of Rosh Hashannah, whom has had quite enough Apple Cake for a while, thank you?

Straight from what feels like the internet of August 1995 is Rotating Sandwiches dot com which is well, see for yourself and try not to drool. (via The Archive of Archives) rotatingsandwiches.com

Africa is home to roughly 1/3 of the world's languages. A revival in underspoken, native tongues is being led mostly by the continent's young people. The Story: bit.ly/4r713PM (via Arts Journal)

San Francisco, already the home of every stupid AI idea under the sun, is poised to become the world capital of anti-AI graffiti. sfstandard.com/2026/09/02/a...

Being curious about the contours of ethical bankruptcy is still ethical bankruptcy. Having a rigorous debate over say whether women deserve equal rights doesn't make you smart. It makes you an asshole who thinks such matters are actually debatable.

Someone at @longreads.com has been reading my Lisa Frank diary...

Followed by a 600% increase in CDs melting after being left out in the sun.

I don't like to be the person who reflexively says "So what?" but what exactly are the consequences if it is v. if it isn't? Does anything meaningly happen either way?

No one was going to spend 11 seconds looking into it and discovering there was already a movie called VISION QUEST? If this is the standard of things, why not just all every 3rd movie STAR WARS and be done with it?

In case you missed it: Iif you’re giving your money to Starbucks right now, you’re officially crossing a picket line. The union has called for a boycott, and we respect the union’s wishes.

“No, the hit records of your generation are not better than today’s. As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.” -- John Waters

Listen, sometimes its an Air Supply deep cuts kinda day.

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." -- Stephen Biko

We're doing this because it is critical that people in the same physical community interact with each other more in low-stakes, positive ways, and also it makes life more fun. Maybe you know someone who needs a pep talk/off ramp from the stranger danger mindset. www.eventbrite.com/e/1994617919...