i don’t have anything in particular to say about the content here (except perhaps that if you have ever cared about wrestling you should consider picking up a copy of The Autograph Man if you haven’t - it’s the least loved of zadie smith’s novels, i think, and maybe rightly so, but the opening sequence is IMO a perfect self contained text, and mostly takes place at a wrestling match) but i decided once i got to the end of this to use the occasion of being here to mention that i literally have kept meaning to find a way to contact you specifically to thank you for being the only person on the internet in 2019 bold enough to speak the truth about lindelof’s watchmen, which i finally gave in and watched this year out of morbid curiosity and was astonished to find was even dumber than i thought it would be. also, i guess so you don’t think i am only here to be a hater, even an allied one, (1) ages ago you wrote about going to a show filled with Youths in a way i found so tender that it has stuck with me since (2) i loved your albini profile despite my only previous association with him being knowing he was a dick about liz phair.
(also, you may or may not remember this and it may or may not be accurate, but it would feel weird not to mention it - i think we followed each other on tumblr back in the day, like the OWOB? i was isabelthespy there - anyway, hi!)
Tried Watching John Wick 4 on a plane (never saw any of the first three) and was just baffled that this was apparently a franchise that someone had decided needed four films of. Was both bored and offended, which is a tough trick to pull off; turned it off after like 20 minutes?
Fantastic newsletter, have already bookmarked so many discoveries from it. And fiercely hope that no one ever asks me if I'm the oldest gentrifier in my neighborhood.
Made it to the end, happily. A very pleasant New Year, sir.
i don’t have anything in particular to say about the content here (except perhaps that if you have ever cared about wrestling you should consider picking up a copy of The Autograph Man if you haven’t - it’s the least loved of zadie smith’s novels, i think, and maybe rightly so, but the opening sequence is IMO a perfect self contained text, and mostly takes place at a wrestling match) but i decided once i got to the end of this to use the occasion of being here to mention that i literally have kept meaning to find a way to contact you specifically to thank you for being the only person on the internet in 2019 bold enough to speak the truth about lindelof’s watchmen, which i finally gave in and watched this year out of morbid curiosity and was astonished to find was even dumber than i thought it would be. also, i guess so you don’t think i am only here to be a hater, even an allied one, (1) ages ago you wrote about going to a show filled with Youths in a way i found so tender that it has stuck with me since (2) i loved your albini profile despite my only previous association with him being knowing he was a dick about liz phair.
(also, you may or may not remember this and it may or may not be accurate, but it would feel weird not to mention it - i think we followed each other on tumblr back in the day, like the OWOB? i was isabelthespy there - anyway, hi!)
Tried Watching John Wick 4 on a plane (never saw any of the first three) and was just baffled that this was apparently a franchise that someone had decided needed four films of. Was both bored and offended, which is a tough trick to pull off; turned it off after like 20 minutes?
Fantastic newsletter, have already bookmarked so many discoveries from it. And fiercely hope that no one ever asks me if I'm the oldest gentrifier in my neighborhood.
John Wick 4 sucked!!!!!