we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
Nathan Deuel
@nathandeuel.bsky.social
Ocean Lifeguard. Author, FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB, Amazon Best Book of the Month. Has written @ NYT Mag, Harper's, GQ, etc. Continuing Lecturer @ UCLA. Lives in Venice Beach, CA
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I'm an ocean lifeguard. Anyone in the L.A. area have an event that would enjoyone of our iconic red trucks, a couple of lifeguards, a booth, and a few hours of us explaining junior guards, beach safety, and how to become a full-fledged ocean lifeguard for the best agency in the world? Let me know!
I am excited to share that the New York Times put my college radio story on page one of today’s style section!
I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
nytimes.com
What are people's favorite college radio stations? Emphasis on non-commercial, non-NPR, music-focused. cc: @whetmoser.com
I wrote about the way I drive now, which is slow, for the New York Times Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...
My Secret for Finding Peace in Traffic
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A line I just re-encountered: "'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
Sometimes I am confused by the people of Los Angeles. Then I remember that everyone is stoned, is something I first thought to myself in 2014
Alert! Roving mud puddle terrorizing a little corner of California via @themorningnews.org www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
Attack of the 75-Foot Roving Mud Puddle
A pool of sludge is wreaking havoc on road infrastructure near the Salton Sea.
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It used to be so depressing when really lazy students used Wikipedia. Now that seems so quaint
Nations clash, rulers spied, a man ate a human heart. Everyone watched a bullfight. We, aghast, furiously tried to polish a beautiful stone
If "Smooth" by Santa feat Rob Thomas was the only song you could ever hear again would you give up on music entirely or listen forever to Smooth by Santa feat Rob Thomas???
A genuine thrill in midlife in Los Angeles is moving over for a motorcycle on the freeway and having that motorcyclist lower a hand and give you a cool acknowledgment for how cool you are
My favorite mag writer (Elif Batuman) profiling my favorite newish-to-me novelist (Murata) is fucking RADDDDD: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye
The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.
newyorker.com
Check out how the 'LA Times' packages the 30 best novels of the last 30 years. (I wrote up their pick for Number One): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.
latimes.com
In 11 years of riding the bus in Los Angeles I’ve never seen someone read a paper copy of the New York Times. Today is that day.
Nuked our Amazon Prime and embracing the challenge of sourcing all the crap I always buy so easily
I just learned that there is a thing called a holistic dentist
Before these fuckers do something truly no turn back horrible isn’t it time for some sort of complete national strike?
The protest I was at yesterday made it onto KTLA! You can see me, bottom right, in the opening montage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTb2... #teslatakedown
Protests outside Tesla showrooms
YouTube video by KTLA 5
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Great protest at the Tesla dealer today! Bigger turnout and more consistent honks of support from passerby. On the way back I saw a dickhead woman with a Cybertruck parked in front of a hydrant, getting a ticket, and she was yelling at the meter maid, but everyone was cheering and it was delicious