Don Draper in 2026: don’t call it a cameo, that cheapens it; it’s an assignation, an encounter. When Awkwafina and Paul Giamatti fist bump its two ships passing in the night, they cherish it all the more for the brevity. That’s the promise of America, that’s Candacecoin
@elengelich empty of visitors and crazily overstaffed. you’re coaxed along this one-way system through every room in this sprawling palace complex, mostly made of cavernous crumbly rooms split by temporary walls and staircases. no rhyme or reason to the sequence of exhibits. it’s eerie.
Nabokov reviewing toys
Beyblade: a favorite from ages 5 to 10, but not thereafter
Lego: laughably ridiculous, a pedestrian amusement
Rubik's Cube: played with once and hated it
Hot Wheels: a favorite between the ages of 5 and 10, and thereafter
Super Soaker: Second-rate