Here are some of those things. That I read. Just today!

• Money Talks - Real Life
• How Netflix Took Over Stand-up Comedy
• The Trump Voters Who Don't Deserve Democrats' Sympathy
• Mapping Drake's International Wave-Riding on More Life

I guess I also read these, but I didn’t want it seem like it was too much reading, you know? But like, no surprise, they were from The Ringer.

• Spoon Is the Greatest Rock Band of the Last 20 Years
• Pete Holmes Is the Happiest Comedian on TV

When work is slow, I read on the internet was originally published in Threshold on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

What, Exactly, Does “Ideological Diversity” Mean?

“… doth protest too much… ” or something was originally published in Threshold on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

… But that are maybe hard to disagree with.

“What am I rebelling against?” was originally published in Threshold on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

“All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin’…”

Evening sun and rain, looking from west to north to east.

“People Get Ready” was originally published in Threshold on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Further proof Real Life Magazine is one of the coolest and most interesting around.

We write because it forces us to face ourselves, to confront what does exist and value or demean it on its own terms. Like Walser, we take our pencils and write inscrutably because communication comes second to articulating for ourselves the lives we lead. And that process doesn’t always amount to much. The blog is there when you need it, and forgotten when you don’t. We check Twitter every morning, during lunch, on the toilet. A blog is ignored for months, and then returned to, like an old friend.

Ode to the Void - Real Life

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If you have a spare three hours, give or take, watch this documentary.

Several times, Curtis and I circled back to the notion of the “hyperobject” — that which is too big in time and space to comprehend. Perhaps this is merely shorthand for the sensation of apprehending that we are creatures born into a world that seems to demand our understanding, but will never grant it. “You have to recognize that you’re part of the thing,” he said. “But the point about journalism is to try to portray the thing you are part of. I think that’s the best you can do.”

Adam Curtis and the Secret History of Everything

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Perhaps one of my favorite pop culture analysis pieces in recent memory, written by the great Chuck Klosterman.

If you want to satirize the condition of a society, going after the apex of the pyramid is a waste of time. You need to attack the bottom. You need to ridicule the alleged ideological foundation an institution claims to be built upon. This is much, much more discomfiting than satirizing an ineffectual prime minister or a crack-smoking mayor. This requires the vilification of innocent, anonymous, working-class people.

Deep satire is a collision sport. It’s a little cold and a little antihumanist, so most of its potential purveyors don’t go for the jugular. But they went for it on Seinfeld, and they did so relentlessly. And they did it so well that most people barely noticed, no matter how often the writers told them directly.

It feels weird to classify one of the most popular TV shows of all time as “underrated,” but the program’s raw popularity latently misdirected its more significant directive. Seinfeld mainstreamed day-to-day villainy. It made America a different place. A meaner, funnier place.

Why "Seinfeld" Is The Most Villainous Sitcom In Human History

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Golden Hour(s) was originally published in Threshold on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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