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wired.com
Want to Get Off Your Phone? Mina Kimes Suggests Having a Baby

"I think that's been the most helpful thing," says the ESPN journalist. "So there you go, Zoomers. There's a reason to have children."

— Mina Kimes
1w ago

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas; a man who has been beating his brains against a problem all week is in excellent condition to be amused.

1mo ago
jefftweedy
Stay Down Man (Dan Reeder cover)

I really think he's one of the only honest heirs to John Prine's sense of humor in song. It's not exactly the same, but it scratches the same itch for me. Apparently John Prine loved his music, too.

2mo ago
longreads.com
Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon

"When I catch a raccoon," he says, "ninety-five percent of the time, it looks like a teenager that's been busted for smoking pot: just kind of aware of what they've done and accepting the consequences."

2mo ago
longreads.com
Happy Fucking Birthday

"Dear Mr. Benjamin Franklin," wrote a seventh grader from Winterville, Georgia. "In your time, the United States hardly existed. As I am writing this letter, it is almost the semi quincentennial, and BOY does the US exist now!"

3mo ago

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works. But this is hardly ever the case; he usually also has a job, a family, and other amusements. This is obviously a sign of insufficient seriousness.

3mo ago

A man may take to drink on account of his wife, but he ought never to take to drink on account of his wife's husband.

3mo ago

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