Wrote about Ballard's psychopathic hymn to the shadow modernities of the everyday threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...
Out With Aliens, In With Alienation
On the science-free sci-fi of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island
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Jack Denton
@jackwdenton.bsky.social
Epistemologist @ NYmag Writing in NYmag, Pitchfork, Harpers, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Outline, Pacific Standard, Mother Jones, New York Times, etc. Co-author of 3x3, an occasional music newsletter: https://threexthree.substack.com/
I co-reported this piece with Adam Platt—and upped my medical anxiety—on how dangerously salty restaurant food is
New York Magazine@nymag.com · last yr.Doctors have long warned about the risks of eating too much sodium. But in an era of Maximum Flavor, chefs say we crave it more than ever.
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
Smallpipes, small hopes
Zohran and the permissions of Brìghde Chaimbeul's celtic rag
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I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
Smallpipes, small hopes
Zohran and the permissions of Brìghde Chaimbeul's celtic rag
threexthree.substack.com
Hard to think of a vocal performance from this century that conveys the feeling of desperation nearly as well as the first verse of Young Thug's "Harambe"
the real freaks were the people listening to WFMU over the phone. forget AM sound quality, imagine how bad the audio probably sounded jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...
One thing not based in reality? The Times' commitment to this completely made up definition of "based"
call me old fashioned, but he’ll always be (Sandy) Puff Daddy to me
Periodic reminder that quite possibly the best song ever recorded is available to be listened to at any time, and no one can stop you www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...
Magwaza
YouTube video by Johnny Dyani - Topic
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YHWH Nailgun album feels like 20 mins of a guy punching you and himself in the face. Electrifying
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news www.vulture.com/article/jess...
Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?
The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.
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I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news www.vulture.com/article/jess...
Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?
The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.
vulture.com
I'm feeling like a real Chicago-style chump getting so excited about commuting to work in sunny, 45 degree weather, but the ten polar vortexes this winter have broken me. Won't be eating any Italian beef though
Beautiful and impressively candid essay on family from @britinacheng.bsky.social in NYmag's My Week in NY newsletter today: link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...
Really unique and moving film. The first scene is worth the price of admission alone www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...
The Image You Missed - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland Starring Arthur MacCaig An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over thirty years of ...
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Perhaps Republicans will squander their power by being too cringe
The translator of On the Calculation of Volume outed herself as Scottish when she used "swither" at least twice in the second book. Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term
This is cracking me up: "As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Column | How his basketball past shaped RaMell Ross’s viewpoint in ‘Nickel Boys’
As a guard at Lake Braddock High and Georgetown University, RaMell Ross had to have vision. The same holds true for his career in film.
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The Gulf of America. The American Abyss. The Gaping, Rapicious Maw of America.
📣📣WE HAVE A DEAL!📣📣 Last week, @nymagunion.bsky.social reached a tentative agreement with New York Magazine and Vox Media. We could not be prouder of our members who made it clear they were ready to withhold their labor if Vox Media didn’t meet them with a fair contract.
Really enjoyed this piece, which reminded me of a wonderful Cecil Taylor quote, on being unafraid to embrace his wide-ranging influences: “Everything I’ve lived, I am.”
