Brett Martin

Very dry blob.

A room suffused in red and yellow light as though under a giant blob.

A room suffused in red and yellow light as though under a giant blob.

This is what it looks like inside our houses.

Country Joe McDonald was, incredibly, named after Joseph Stalin

Really this was a time-change post, but you’re not wrong to point out that it’s not really an outlier.

Just my emergency sandwich.

It's 10am. Already had two breakfasts and a lunch.

I can't believe I just learned what a rolled oyster is.

Esplanade's Noisiest, Messiest Part-Time Residents Are Back. It's Night Heron Season. Residents along the 2300 block of Esplanade Avenue have had unusual neighbors for the past several years – hundreds of night herons.Night herons are…

That wasn't even the colony I was thinking of. www.wwno.org/coastal-desk...

New Orleans neighbors embrace a colony of yellow-crowned night herons and their chicks At first glance, the stretch of Willow Street doesn’t appear much different than other sections of Uptown.

You should come to New Orleans. www.nola.com/entertainmen...

There's a Mets fan analogy here somewhere.

Weirdly, I flew on a blimp that the next day was destroyed by wind. Without casualties, thankfully.

According to military analyst Anton Chekhov, there’s a 100% chance the US uses a nuclear weapon before this is all over.

Houston dining's batting average remains almost unrivaled.

One of the best bites in a return-to-Houston marathon that also included stellar stops at Pondicheri, ChopnBlok, Hugo's, Crawfish & Noodles, Lei Low, Julep, and Teotihuacan.

Somehow I let eight years go by between visits to Blood Bros BBQ, but their Phostrami sandwich (brisket with pho spices) is a gimmick that deserves to become canon.

Studio track sheets from the More Songs deluxe set. Eno often assigned track 22 of 24

More Songs About Buildings and Food track sheets, with 1 track per song usually devoted to "ENO"

They are having to explain that the number is the row and the letter is the seat and where to find them.

Surprising number of people on this Southwest flight have never had an assigned seat before. Much excitement!

The Ethical Assassin: One Man's Quest for the Perfect Way to Kill a Fish What if there were a perfect way to kill a fish? To make it suffer less, taste better, and extend its shelf life so significantly that more people might enjoy more kinds of fish all over the world? An...

Here's the story, assigned by Will Welch (who begins his new life in Paris today), edited by Dan Reilly, brutally fact-checked by Kira Henehan, and featuring the ever-fascinating Andrew Tsui. www.gq.com/story/the-et...

A list of nominees for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for Profile Writing: 15. Profile Writing • GQ for "The Ethical Assassin: One Man's Quest for the Perfect Way to Kill a Fish," by Brett Martin, June 3 at gq.com • Mother Jones for "The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle," by Rachel de Leon and Julia Lurie, March + April • New York Magazine for "The Long Shot," by E. Alex Jung, May 19-June 1 • The New York Times Magazine for "What Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson Knows About Pain" by Sam Anderson, September 21 at nytimes.com/magazine • The New Yorker for "Autocracy Now!"" by Ava Kofman, June 9 • Racquet for "Bring Me Back to Life," by Caira Conner, August 20 at racquetmag.com • Vogue for "Blazy of Glory." by Nathan Heller, December

Well, this is encouraging. Thank you, ASME and GQ. And congrats to all these other nominees.

Any other year there may have been time to make it to a Krewe du Vieux float. Shame, really.

Transposing to the (obviously very different) world of magazines, I never want to give an editor that much to cut. I do the picking!

Thank you!

A Facebook invite "Ken is Getting A Haircut at the R Bar"

Things really slow down here after Mardi Gras.

Triple Play - The Odd Couple YouTube video by Maratos07

Bill Mazeroski was also involved in a memorable scene in a classic film.

RIP Bill Mazeroski. Shown here in high school after hitting a game winning home run off Phil Niekro to win the game 1-0. The only game Niekro ever lost. Niekro’s catcher in the pic? None other than the Boston Celtics’ very own John Havlicek. How about that!

Famous photo of fans celebrating Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 World Series winning home run from atop the Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning, Forbes Field way in the distance below.

Much good stuff in here.