Y'all don't know the magic of Scottish people trying to pronounce "fajitas."

Since Africa’s best ref Omar Artan is all over Twitter today, it’s worth remembering that Wavin’ Flag the 2010 World Cup song and one of the greatest football anthems ever was also by Somali artist @KNAAN 🇸🇴🇸🇴

Last week, I spent several days at the @SchomburgCenter, going through photographs of James Baldwin as part of my work as a consultant for a forthcoming exhibition curated by the phenomenal Karen Van Godtsenhoven. One of the highlights was this snapshot of Baldwin and Toni Morrison in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Unlike the carefully staged portraits that helped construct Baldwin's public image, this photograph feels deeply personal. It wasn't made for publication. It looks like the kind of photograph that might have been processed at a local drugstore and tucked into a family album. Here are two of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, not performing literary celebrity, but simply enjoying one another's company. There is something wonderfully ordinary about it. As I think through Baldwin's self-fashioning, this photograph reminds me that public intellectuals are not made through ideas alone. Their lives are sustained by friendships, intellectual communities, chosen families, and private moments of joy. Sometimes a casual photo can reveal more than a professional headshot.

Here's what the booing sounded like inside MSG when Trump was shown on the Jumbotron:

they have pride pan dulce at the mexican supermarket i love my country california

The only person I want to hear they're doing urban warfare training in Pasadena from. Extremely normal news.

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don’t sit on the sidewalk or the fascistic paramilitary force will disappear you

And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty!

A very L.A. gas station selection

There is a cat in the car park. We repeat. THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK.

For nearly 20 years, Read Books was a fixture of Eagle Rock’s quirky charm. Now, a 133% price hike has pushed the family-owned shop to close its doors, but not without a fight. latimes.com/entertainment-ar…

Beethoven was fucking deaf but yeah sure you need a robot to be creative for you

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

I can’t stand the way people that aren’t from here talk about LA. Los Angeles is more than West Hollywood or silverlake. Mfs swear it’s all transplants trying to get into show biz and completely disregard the millions of working class folks that have lived here for generations.

Not to be dramatic, but if we lose @NYMag too, I might die

This week, a hot new paperback bombshell enters the villa bookshop.org/p/books/the-10-… Both Booklist (“Readers will be enamored with Hanks’s curiosity and vivid imagery... like the best travel writing”) and Kirkus (“sparkling, somber, heartfelt, yearning”) gave it starred reviews, so

RT @LATACO: Daily Memo: The 15th Death In ICE Detention and ICE is Slowly Escalating. ICE’s slow increase in operations is now averaging ab…