june 2 gdb
Okay, so, I don't imagine too many of you care about or have been following the destruction of CBS News (the brand and the idea) by the new regime, but I can't look away from it for reasons including that it is just a perfect metaphor for what is going on in America right now.
In short: some of the worst people ever who don't know or care how anything works were handed the keys to American culture and posture ββ by which I also mean its past, present, future, culture, conventions, and institutions ββ and they responded by destroying all of it so that they can remake it in their image, and that image is really small, and ugly, and petty, and stupid, and unqualified, and sociopathic, and solipsistic, and really fucking lame ββ but you really can't teach people to have taste, or self-respect, and so here we are.
Institutions are interesting. When we were in Paris last month we walked by the CathΓ©drale Notre-Dame de Paris many times, and every other time, my partner brought up the fire, which reminded us both that everyone was so quick to donate money to repair a building. And I get it. Buildings are avatars, they are representations of the public, they can, at times, stand for the body politic, etc.
But it's just a building.
It's an institution, but it's just a building.
The point I am getting at (while also meandering) is that while I think people should come before property, I understand why people wanted to preserve it. I understand why it is, and was, important for the culture of the place ββ by which I mean Paris, but also France.
And yet in the last fifteen years or so, I have seen several American institutions beaten to death with baseball bats, and, like, nothing is happening. I'm a Canadian, in Canada, looking southward and hoping some adult will come back into the room and chanse the Hail Hydra motherfuckers back into the sewers, but if you read the news ββ including the fucking New York Times ββ you'd think that things are slightly fractious, and not skraight-up bananas.
And now, because I like to rock a Crazy Ivan every now and again, some basketball things:
π Sparks guard Rae Burrell had a great game tonight before rolling her ankle.
π NBA fans of a particular vintage will like this little game a whole lot.
π Jon and I recorded a new episode of Red Black Comeback focusing on the NBA Playoffs, the WNBA regular season, and the efforts of our respective expansion teams, and it should go live tomorrow.
π RIP Rick Adelman. I loved those Sacramento teams, man.
π It wasn't in the best 100 dunks I've ever seen but I'm going to remember this Devin Vassell dunk forever.
π Shout out to Mayor Mamdani, who signed an Executive Order repealing bedtime for New York's youngest Knicks fans.
π² gonna
πΌ go
π± touch dream
π³ grass some
π· now drems
Be good to yourself.
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