styofa doing anything
Discoholic đȘ©
No title available
noise dept.
oozey mess
â
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
hello vonnie
blake kathryn
art blog(derogatory)
Sweet Seals For You, Always
i don't do bad sauce passes
pixel skylines
No title available
JBB: An Artblog!
shark vs the universe
DEAR READER
I'd rather be in outer space đž
Aqua Utopiaïœæ”·ăźćșă§èšæ¶ă玥ă
#extradirty
seen from United Arab Emirates
seen from United States
seen from Sweden
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Georgia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Canada
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
@misterjt
Make Them Care
I tried. I really did. Itâs been two weeks since Drakeâs ICEMAN came out, and after giving the album a few fair listens, I can acknowledge the bops and his skill as a rhyme slinger when heâs properly motivated. And while there are many things heâs trying to make the audience do on his most important release since the early part of his career, the one thing he couldnât do is make me care. HeâŠ
Earthly Treats
Crab in black bean sauce, at least as it is served in American Chinese restaurants, starts with a whole crab, most likely Dungeness here in LA, still in the shell, chopped into sections, and stirâfried until the shells are bright red. Itâs then simmered in a fermented black bean sauce. The sticky, unctuous umami bomb was among my fatherâs very favorite meals. We observed his birthday this pastâŠ
Bleed Blue, Pt. 2
Early during this yearâs March Madness, I said, âMy annual worry with the Bruins: they donât have enough âdawgâ for the SEC teams and Coach Cori overcoaching in big games.â Well, I was proven wrong on both counts. The 2026 National Champions got there by defeating the two best teams in the SEC, and by the end, Cori Close had ascended to join the ranks of the most quotable and noteworthy coachesâŠ
51
Tiffany asked me what I wanted for my 51st year, and my quick answer was âto get to the money.â To sit courtside at Los Angeles Sparks games and say hi to Dee, our favorite bartender in the Delta Sky lounge. To travel for basketball reasons on a whim. To join our wealthier friends in donating to the arts. To become fluent in opera. To be a patron of the spaces that generate the vibes I wantâŠ
Intentionally Offline
View on Threads Ironically, my intention to spend more of my life away from screens crystallized around a social media post. Iâve known Zadi Diaz since the heyday of blogging, the rise of YouTube, and those few years when SXSWi cared more about the culture and creativity of the web than about monetizing enthusiasm at scale. She has always placed a grounded, human lens on our shared digitalâŠ
Joy is the Signal
Dylan Byers said something on an end-of-2025 episode of The Grill Room that stuck with me (paraphrasing): The best media story of the year is about people who have created something on their own. I donât know what their long game is as businesses, but theyâre definitely having fun. And itâs joyful. I spend a lot of time in my inbox with people who are very upset at their media organizations.âŠ
MONUMENTS
A year before we married in the city, we spent a Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans. We stayed at Hotel LeCirque. It stands on what is now Harmony Circle, once called Place du Tivoli. In 2010, it was still known by the name it had carried for more than 130 years: Lee Circle. As in Robert E. Lee, the defeated Confederate general. Our room faced the circle, where the enormous statue of Lee,âŠ
Season's Greetings
Every year, when I check my unused holiday card inventory, I open up the old Apple MacBook box I use to store the best cards Iâve received and read through a few of the lovely notes people have sent. I admire the artwork of those cardsâsome beautiful, some witty, some handmade with care. I donât have a similar keepsake spot on my phone for the emoji-filled texts I receive on our sharedâŠ
How I Made My 2025 Music Recap
L.A Weather (16 of 26)
MarĂa Ampara EscandĂłn loves Los Angeles. More importantly, she understands it. Her novel, L.A. Weather, is about family and the subtle nuances within each relationship. Itâs also about identity, the hold that secrets can have over us, and how we handle the crises that can face a family unit in any given year. Los Angeles is where the Alvarados happen to live in this story. This city I love isâŠ
Alive in the Room
This past Wednesday, my family hosted a musical tribute to my father, Kevin Toney. I wasnât an active participant in the production or planning. Outside of doing half of a rough draft of a script for the M.C., I tapped out. âThis is not for us,â I said. âThis is for everyone else.â It was more than that, of course. It was my motherâs gift to his musical legacy. The show was a retrospective ofâŠ
View On WordPress
Kendrick Lamar's West Side Rallying Cry
On my 20th spin of Not Like Us, I figured out why Kendrick Lamarâs latest is so electrifying. The last time LA hip hop was up was Nipsey Hussleâs Victory Lap at the GRAMMYs in February of 2019. His death a couple of months later, followed by Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and several others less than a year later, turned the city and the music melancholy and insular. The pandemic would soon follow,âŠ
View On WordPress
Am I an AI Skeptic or Optimist? Yes
Iâm an AI skeptic. Thatâs not true. I have been cautious about rapidly incorporating AI tools into my everyday work, even as usage and excitement by others have grown exponentially in the last year. Recently, though, Iâve been playing with AI solutions more frequently. Iâve been frustrated with the quality of Google search results and started exploring Perplexity AI. It was helpful when I lookedâŠ
View On WordPress
No One App to Rule Them All
It's been a while since I gave up on Evernote. I think I've finally figured out what will work for me now.
Photo by Walling on Unsplash I have been searching for an app to replace Evernote for quite some time now. Although I thought Notion was the one, I eventually gave up after using it for nearly two years as it was too heavy for personal use. First, I stopped using it to capture my âread laterâ links. Instead, I used bookmarks and read later in Safari until I stumbled across Anybox in aâŠ
View On WordPress
In her book âMy Black Country,â which shares its name with her new compilation, Randall posits a sharp rejoinder to the standard country origin story.
"I think that BeyoncĂ© â like Taylor Swift â loves nothing more than to prove herself in situations where she is perceived as an underdog. But also, like Swift right now, BeyoncĂ© is in a position of such cultural, commercial, and critical dominance that there are not a lot of arenas left where she can convincingly play David rather than Goliath. In this sense, the systemic racism of the mainstream country music establishment â and American history writ large â is a worthy and appropriately sized foe. Backstage hangers-on lusting after her billionaire husband? Maybe not as much. While the libidinous YoncĂ©Â is usually one of my favorite Bey alter-egos, I do find myself wishing this album were a bit less about whatâs happening in the back of the limo and more about whatâs happening on the streets outside it."
Lindsay Zoladz on "Cowboy Carter"
"I am more than fine with signing on to the BeyoncĂ© legacy project, which promises to reclaim Black art across genres that have erased Black contributions. That is noble. But she has also worked hard to elevate a very specific era of a young female singerâs career â that sanitized expression of girlhood â into something more expansive. She chose to do that through Black art, leaning into her Southernness, accent, and lower vocal range instead of becoming a more palatable post-racial pop star. On this album, she makes a case for why, instead of simply embodying the latent politics of pop, house, and country, sheâs choosing to transform them into something else. The result is an eminently enjoyable album with some imperfections but an indication of what could be possible if more artists follow her lead."
âTressie McMillan Cottom on "Cowboy Carter"