Samuel J Adams

short fiction @TheSunMagazine @RuminateMag @monkeybicycle @EL_DIAGRAM @SporkPress @TimberJournal & more

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

A juicy tale for journos but most people feel for a young lady down bad for RFK Jr. the way they did about the guy fucked to death by a horse in Enumclaw, WA:
1) that's sad
2) & gross
3) sorry you didn't find the help you needed
4) this is too nasty to read about at length

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

American Canto sold 1165 physical copies in its first week, per bookscan.

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

@tarenceray You're also uniquely suited to judge whether the movie passes the New Mexico smell test. I've only visited the state, but the depiction seemed dead-on (is there even a Hobbs name check?).

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

@bartlebytaco Iconically phoned-in score by the laziest guy to ever compose for the movies, Ry Cooder. Claimed he played it in e flat because the wind was in e flat. 🙄

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

@faceyouhate Very fun to spend 80 minutes in an irregular, experimental, 2020s-set horror movie that plays by its own rules only to end on *exactly* that feeling the classic 19th/early 20th century ghost stories deliver.

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

@tarenceray He's already onshoring the First Babes Appreciation Industry:

https://t.co/DRRpPoAt59

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

One of my favorite things about America today is that there are millions of unreliable, troubled, self-defeating suburban professionals who believe "doing subsistence agriculture in their 40s and 50s" will work out for them if their current job doesn't .

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

Shitposters on X inadvertently recreating Bill Viola's The Reflecting Pool (1977-79). Miraculous. Pierre Menard could never.

https://t.co/Ffu4VPbS0L

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP. Before condemning the coarse culture that birthed Twerking Daffy, ask yourself if one could truly understand our world, much less represent it pictorially, without twerking, without big peachy butts? I don't think you could. Solid movie.

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

We'd like two tickets for THE SHROUDS please

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

@ExileGrimm He's also a gourmand! A Chez Panisse super fan! Friends with Alice Waters since the 1970s. He literally blurbed this salt.

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

Everyone is just Nelson Muntz now

[Steven Chase @stevenchase]

Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

So I see we respect ANORA enough to give it five Oscars but not enough to honor "Ani's" real name (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim). 🙄

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

@Jess_D_Ripper Perfect tonal balance between matter-of-fact observation and slander in those two sentences. Very beautiful.

[💜💜🎀 ȶɦɛ ȶɦɨռӄɛʀ🎀 💜💜 @NickPinkerton]

Because the modern world is a nightmarish shithole designed to cater to the hangups of small caste of agoraphobe coders whose only "vision" is a future free of all human contact, despised by literally everyone else? https://t.co/PyulBWydrz

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

Commemorated the last day of the Biden presidency by seeing a movie from his childhood—G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box—at the cinema.

[Reverse Shot @reverse_shot]

This Sunday, for no reason whatsoever, I must remind you all that @NickPinkerton's four-part essay on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is one of the best things we've ever published.
https://t.co/LXXN0sCRZH

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

In Twin Peaks, the 51,201 population played like the joke it was (they famously added a zero so the town wasn't too small in the network's eyes). The horror of the Return is that the sign seems accurate now: Twin Peaks is another typically American anomic exurb. No community left

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

A colossal loss. Haven't been this sad about a celebrity death since Jim Henson's. And I was six when he passed.

Despite all the magic they made in life, their departures leave a less enchanted world.

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

Markets closed for Jimmy. The legend of living with less endures. Imagine needing to access money in a fire emergency and President Mr. Peanut's 100-year-old corpse stands in the way.🫡🇺🇸

[Samuel J Adams @GhostWithAJob]

Best Podcast stuff 2024:
1) "DJ Screwtape Letters" @thetrillbillies
2) Kamala Harris comms does reputational seppuku
3) LexG's gratitude re: his Patreon
4) Trump learns of cocaine from Theo Von
5) "Meatcube"
6) Wife thinking Amy Taubin was Dr. Ruth (The Last Thing I Saw)