features @gqmagazine. next book FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL w/ Joan LeMay coming Nov. 3 from Random House

preaching on the burning shore
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new tangled up in blue verses in 2026. oh my god. oh my god.
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Incredible little artifact of 2026 hyperreality: AI James Gandolfini reads an obvious ChatGPT script about Indian scam call-centers, set to a seven nation army remix and posted by the Director of the FBI
OPERATION BLACKOUT. These aren’t random scammers sitting behind laptops. They built fortified compounds, trafficked human beings, forced slave labor, and constructed an international fraud machine targeting Americans. So we’re dismantling the machine. $15+ BILLION in assets and crypto seized. 500+ fake investment sites shut down. Hundreds arrested. Thousands of trafficked workers freed. 10,000+ Americans warned before they could be robbed. More than $500 MILLION saved. And 20+ countries are now coordinating in this fight. These criminals built an industry that could target Americans from anywhere. -DKP 🇺🇸
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HOTEL LOBBY but the beat is Hotel California
if the migos were transported to the 70s and they still made the same music do you think they’d be the most influential group ever
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had to put the most “me” spoiler warning ever on my talk with Chuck Klosterman about the Beatles, the Velvets and parallel universes gq.com/story/chuck-klosterma…
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got a drop of pure Dr. Bronners’ in my eye before first day of reading the FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL audiobook #hippiehazards #ICanBarelySee
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love it when the DVD starts with an ad for Blu-Ray that’s like “The way you watch HANCOCK and DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN will never be the same”
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80 and still unlocking new levels of “God’s lonely man”
80 year old Paul Schrader tried for two weeks on a paid website to get AI bots to meet him in city parks and back alleyways
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not trying to tell men how to live their lives, but men, if you can work a cell phone, you’re probably too old to be in a stroller
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gotta go with the one that doesn’t feature a hilariously miscast William Hurt as, I assume, the boss of the Pennsylvania Dutch Mafia
“Eastern Promises or A History of Violence” is my favorite cinephile Rorschach test. You can learn a lot about a Cronenberg fan by asking that question.
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dog walk in Atwater Village, stopped at the “Pass the Mic” stairs to check my head
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rewatch triggered
Has anyone ever gone as hard as Vanilla Fudge on Ed Sullivan in 1968?
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“sprinting across great distances” a neo-Wambsgans-ism up there with “ludicrously capacious bag”
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for GQ Hype, spent a day in the A w/ @druski on set filming his new TV show—at a real prison lmao—talking everything from Emma Stone to Rubi Rose (+ if he rly went to Travis' bachelor party lol) and total Hollywood domination gq.com/story/druski-gq-hype
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as good an excuse as any to watch "the target shoots first," a behind-the-scenes documentary about the record club's mid-90s peak that was shot by an employee with a camcorder youtube.com/watch?v=f4IaB-eB…
Columbia House, which somehow still exists in the year 2026, is finally shutting down next month pitchfork.com/story/columbia…
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For @GQMagazine, I had an expansive chat with Tom King about how he created LANTERNS, casting Chandler & Pierre, John Mulaney (it makes sense, trust me), and that major reveal at the end of the premiere. Spoilers at the link: dub.sh/bPC965v
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incredible run and I couldn’t make the text small enough to include Tales From the Hood (1995). RIP
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went here and a small but passionate group of fans had heard of you
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