@exhaustdata

the shape of posts to come

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Joined May 2021
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Standing outside the paywall, talking shit
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Maybe it would be helpful to frame discussions in terms of actual numbers. It definitely sounds dismal to say that 28% of American Men have read a novel in the past year, but that’s still 49,000,000 people. That’s like 5 NYCs, and 10 million more than the population of California
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Herman Melville-ass moment in Doom Painting when Blakemore suddenly stops to give a whole bracketed paragraph of nonfiction, quoting a historian writing 600 years after the events of this chapter, but also more than a century ago. Even a [sic] for good measure!
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To say nothing of the paragraph break before the word “breathes” to really emphasize the relief of it. Great reminder that you can basically do whatever you want in a novel. Everybody must get weirder now immediately.
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With Halloween just around the corner I’m breaking out my original copy of Deathconsciousness. The reason for the season.
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We have been subjected to podcasts/movies/tv shows/documentaries about Elizabeth Holmes for roughly as long as Theranos was a company. I think we can probably wrap this up soon
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I’m undertaking A Table for Fortune starting Nov. 1st to have a nice easy number as a starting point. I’m also planning to keep my thoughts/reactions/etc. contained in one big thread for accountability, and to show naysayers that at least one person is reading it
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Sort of get the feeling that it’s all going to be downhill from seeing a baby tiger playing with a pumpkin
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My toddler loves the Worldpeace DMT record. He said “it’s the most best music” which is basically a Pitchfork 9
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If you are still in line to be buried STAY IN LINE. We can flip Texas.
Josh Barzon
@JoshuaBarzonOct 24
Do you live in a burial or cremation state?
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense” — Gertrude Stein, 1946
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Eighty years ago.
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Okay but like… I don’t want the world to see me! I don’t think that they’d understand!
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Okay it looks like I have 3 hours to find a babysitter before the one and only showing of the Begotten restoration tonight
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The marketing & publicity department from Little, Brown is converging on my location as we speak 😔
James@exhaustdata22 Jun 2025
In 2012 it seemed like every single person in New York City was reading The Art of Fielding. On Goodreads it has 30,000 more ratings than Infinite Jest, and almost 3x as many readers as 2666. And yet it’s just completely gone. Never discussed. Zero impact.
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They’re gonna dump me dead into the ocean wrapped up inside of a baseball gear bag like at the conclusion of Chad Harbach’s 2011 novel The Art of Fielding
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Recently been extremely into this session that was recorded with Django Reinhardt and the best players in Glenn Miller’s GI band. Absolutely sublime performances all around, and I found out this morning that it’s got a very unique release history, which makes it that much better
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What’s the over/under that the mystery buyer in the Catapult sale turns out to be Zibby
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Unfortunately the rest of my afternoon is sort of a wash because I accidentally pressed the “fuck up your entire day” button
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Does this photo mean anything to you or are you normal
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Going to one of those Korean bbq places and saying “they’re doing this to me at work tomorrow” every time I put anything on the little grill
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