Monday, July 20, 2026

"More than 50 restaurants and bars in L.A. now import ice cubes from Japan"

Fun article. (Please subscribe to the excellent LA Material newsletter so I can win some merch)





The Laestrygonian actors and Matt Damon's double for the forced perspective sequence, I believe




And a workout video:

Reportedly, ESPN told Ryan Clark, while he was doing an episode of NFL Live today, that he had been fired

NYT says ESPN feared he was going to find out from some other source, so told him immediately (but I guess they were paying him, and had wanted to get their money's worth). He "did not finish the program."


Earlier this year

James Groman sculpted a Rancor and a Wampa




Space Kook and other new Scooby-Doo toys by Jada Toys up for preorder

Scooby, Sea-Demon, Space Kook. (I have three Jada figures, they're great value.


Today's news and jokes



They’re having a completely normal one over at the National Review this weekend

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) July 19, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Watch them turning the big dial.

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

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— The Emotion Engine (@emotion-engine.bsky.social) July 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Amazon has it