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Matt’s store is a treasure!
This is a great book.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 2025 was the most violent year for journalists in three decades. Hear where, and why, reporters and media personnel are under threat lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
Checking the notes and citations of my manuscript. I remember doing this before the age of citation managers. How did people do this before word processors?
Hard to believe, at one point a bunch of people were paid yearly salaries to watch and reflect about how they felt about movies. And some of the writing was pretty great.
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
Look no further.
I’m careful with “genius”—I’m even careful with “artist”—but Catherine O’Hara was both and we scarcely deserved her.
This was inspired by seeing someone using Excel on their phone. What are we doing here?
Being anti-phone is cool. But what about being pro-desktop? I love having a big screen, a solid keyboard, and not being able to take it with me anywhere.
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
“Vertical video is a format of necessity that rewards users’ inattentiveness…Instead of making something worth the mild inconvenience of rotating a phone, posters go for whatever is safest, easiest…It’s a design choice that sacrifices artistry so users don’t have to use their wrists.”
Lovely little reflection on breaking the death grip of Instagram and our appified attention spans from @gbullard.bsky.social.
I wrote about snails, Switzerland, and fitting in for the NYT Magazine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/m...
I wrote about snails, Switzerland, and fitting in for the NYT Magazine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/m...
NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Would love to hear a segment about this publication or other TV supplements that used to come in local papers.
Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
It's amazing how many tricky problems of writing can be solved by moving a paragraph, then deleting it.
A still of Kurt Russell from the John Carpenter film The Thing (1982). Russell looks tired and is talking into a microphone. There is a tall glass of whiskey on his desk.
Podcasting
Humbly presenting to the void: today is new album release eve. Tomorrow you can get hear my second piano trio "Payne Hollow," inspired by Harlan and Anna Hubbard who lived deliberately on the banks of the Ohio. Recorded by local group NouLou Chamber Players. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...
With less than one month to go before the paperback release, I am sharing a review a day. Today's review is from the esteemed Olivia Liang in The Financial Times.The FT was actually the first review to appear outside of a trade publication and it was a huge relief to see it reviewed so well overseas
This is a really fun look at a great comic.
Part three of the cultural history of the bowling shirt. Folks, we've got swing revival, Two and a Half Men, fake irony, and a gallon of Donkey Sauce. gabebullard.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
Eating figs and singing ”I got figs” to the tune of ZZ Top’s “Legs.”
And Lebowski, of course.