Jay Innis
@DepartureJay
Got a dictionary and some sharpened pencils and other things like that. Book reviews and essays are on my website at the link down there ⬇️
My first review since mid April. Best new novel I’ve read this year. It’s The Delegation by @AvnerLandes thevisionarycompany.net/2025/06/30/ste…
Pavement performing Frontwards live at the Axis (Boston, 1992)
Drove around the Twin Cities suburbs getting in car chases and fucking up lawns to the tunes of Ozzy Osbourne. Was a teenage telemarketing prodigy, selling the shit out of duct cleaning from a boiler room stripmall sty to the tunes of Ozzy Osbourne. Crazy, but that's how it goes
This must sound great if you’re stupid.
Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits.
Ahistorical bullshit.
The starter home of a 19th century worker. Then we made them illegal to build and now that house is $1M+ and that worker instead has to live 45 min outside of the city, completely detached from the community he works in.
*to the tune of Owner of a Lonely Heart* homer maggie lisa bart
If you want to hear a podcast featuring me talking about Tolkien and the far right, have I got something for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/myt…
Computer show me an image of Cormac McCarthy holding the monkey from that David Lynch short.
Happy Birthday to the late Cormac McCarthy, born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. 92 years ago today
I have nothing more to go on than my conviction, my sense that I make sense.
wrote about Eddingon, a post-woke stab at Do the Right Thing for the Covid era that ends up becoming a vacant thinkpiece-as-film without a thesis for @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-am-l…
Literal breadline massacres every single day
Every single day Israel is starving Gaza and slaughtering the Palestinians who dare to find food for their families.
Put out your hand, isn't there an ashtray, suddenly, there? beside the bed?