Jeremy Gordon

RT @FugaziTruther: https://t.co/p4uT9v8Gca

Sadly, the new pope is from the suburbs — no exceptions to the rule

david drake @somanyshrimp

the most chicago part about this is he's actually from Dolton and now people can argue about whether hes allowed to say hes from chicago or not https://t.co/7I5N6toxPQ

The pope has a brother from the South Side — what a world

GNSportsTV @GNSportsTV

Pope Leo XIV's brother John sets the record straight - @cubs or @whitesox fan? "He was never, ever a #Cubs fan, so I don't know where that came from. He was always a #Sox fan." Story: https://t.co/HTFs6E0Rfc https://t.co/9dtGMNa2UO

The new pope is a Virgo from Chicago... I'm a Virgo from Chicago... getting really emotional

CHICAGO NUMBER ONE BABY BEST CITY IN DA WORLD!!!!!!!

"As strongly as I feel against misrepresenting one’s authority, of course default suspicion of someone’s claim to a culture is as inappropriate as unquestioning acceptance. I’m too ungenerous to people in whom I see something of myself." RIP Astra!

steven duong @boneless_koi

seeing a lot about the andrea long chu piece on ocean vuong--here is the essay whose arguments chu draws very extensively from, by som-mai nguyen. one of my all time fave essays on the literature of diaspora, also very funny. https://t.co/houVYnLQSu

The key to raising youth literacy rates? I'm thinking it's a stylish yet conversational literary novel about digital afterlives, the perils of memory, getting too high in Los Angeles, and 9/11 — available now, as a paperback original from Harper Perennial

RT @Bernstein: The thing that frightens me about this isn't that kids aren't learning to write, per se. It's that learning how to write als…

We're rewatching TWIN PEAKS on Blu Ray and it's loaded with special features, the best of which are the numerous cast-recorded ads —100 variations of Lucy or Cooper saying "Tune in next week for another Twin Peaks!" This is what modern prestige TV lacks: the salesman's spirit

This is my entire worldview more or less

Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq

Watching Siskel & Ebert rave about Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse and feeling moved. Just two newspaper columnists from Chicago deeply affected by a work of art. Other films reviewed on this episode include Curly Sue and House Party 2.

RT @skornhaber: I’ve never believed in cultural decline! But throughout the 2020s, the arts have been in a strange state that does look a l…

RT @nausjcaa: For @Parapraxis_Mag I wrote about abnormally normal mom culture and why it freaketh me out https://t.co/TaKoEXSOAO

I did

Andy Kaczynski @KFILE

no one asked for this https://t.co/LRkDKykrAA

RT @jeremypgordon: SEE FRIENDSHIP in today’s NYT — just in time for AAPI Heritage Month https://t.co/K660lRi9oL

SEE FRIENDSHIP in today’s NYT — just in time for AAPI Heritage Month https://t.co/K660lRi9oL

Perhaps SINNERS is conservative-coded because every character is technically punished for their love of music, alcohol, and casual sex— they are "sinners," so to speak. But more literally, they're punished because a gang of vampires want to murder them, and everyone else in town.

I think it's nice when a horse named Sovereignty beats a horse named Journalism and all 5000 of my friends can make the exact same joke—a bit of monoculture, in these fractured and trying times