Jackie Mansky

@jasmansky

Culture writer and editor based in L.A. Professionally and unprofessionally interested in our cruel, beautiful world

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Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· 24d

Still baffled by so many of the choices Nolan made. There's a great film to be made interpreting Odysseus as someone living with the moral injury of war. But this just punted so much! Like why would you leave out one of the best exchanges that would've work thematically so well here?

Ghost of Achilles to Odysseus line (translated): "Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed."

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· 25d

Was so excited to see this I let out an audible gasp

Sheila Heti episode alert for The Critics and Her Publics

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· 27d

Feeling 3000 years old

Excerpt from Searches by Vauhini Vara: “I began using Google because Dana said it t was better and more ethical than other search engines…”

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Jul 13

Just ask Tobias Fünke

Email from Esquire with subj line: "How a Hair Transplant Could Change Your Life"

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Jul 7

Was going through this Washpo article from 1990 for a fact check. Had no idea shark week went back that far?? www.washingtonpost.com/archive/life...

This Week on The Discovery Channel comes "Shark Week '90," a big ratings success last year. The package includes a world-, a cable- and two U.S. television premieres. The shows, with encores in parentheses, are: "Jaws -- The True Story," Sunday at 10 p.m. (Tuesday at midnight and Saturday at 7 p.m.); World TV premiere of "The World of Sharks and Barracuda," Sunday at midnight (Friday at 10 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m.); "Sharks -- Hunters of the Sea," Monday at 10 p.m. (Wednesday at midnight and Saturday at 6 p.m.); "Sharkhunters/Sharks -- Predators or Prey?," Monday at midnight (Saturday at 10 p.m. and next Sunday at 5 p.m.); "Shark!," Tuesday at 10 p.m. (Thursday at midnight and Saturday at 5 p.m.) "Operation Shark Attack!," Wednesday at 10 p.m. (Friday at midnight and next Sunday at 7 p.m.) and "The Great Whites of Dangerous Reef," Thursday at 10 p.m. (Saturday at midnight and next Sunday at 6 p.m.) TDC is also showing "In Search of the Great White Shark" on its "Challenge" series Monday at 8 p.m. (Saturday at 1 and 11 p.m.). That's a total of 24 hours of sharking for the week, seven of them on Saturday.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Jul 6

Inject it in my veins www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

There will never be anything like this again, though. Three players, on the same team, for more than two decades. They’re the first to ever accomplish that in the history of North American professional sports. They’ll be the last.

For every Connor McDavid who stays in Edmonton or Alex Ovechkin who stays in Washington, there are countless great players who move on, who want more money, fewer taxes, more power.

Crosby, Malkin and Letang just want to play here.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Jun 10

Sometimes my phone decides to offload Substack to save space and I never realize this until my train is late, and then I come back to many good pieces, including this by Catherine Lacey on our dumb delusions open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

I remember when someone explained to me—I don’t know, several years ago now—that the word delusional now had a cute nickname: delulu. That’s when I knew they must have built a new fast track to hell. If being unable to comprehend reality gets a cute re-branding, you can be sure the fascists are winning.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 30

Still at the restaurant (suicide store). 2025-26 Penguins thank you for the damn fun ride www.nhl.com/penguins/new...

“You ask me how cool is it you all play together. For me, it’s natural. I play with Sid forever, and I’m like oh, I see you tomorrow. I’m not thinking (any) other way. People ask oh, 20 years... for me, it’s like, 20 years, it’s quick, first of all. Time just flies. But for me, we’re always together.”

Crosby has described the dynamic between them as ‘family.’ Letang said they’re all different, that he is quiet and intense, Malkin is loud and funny, and Crosby is the one who drives the ship. So, how would Malkin put it?

“First of all, they like me so much,” Malkin said. “I’m like middle guy. I’m always between them. Because you know Sid mad, Tanger mad, I come and talk to them [laughs]. No, we are like family. We know we're good friends. But you can’t be nice every time. Sometimes you’re feeling you angry, you’re not happy, you show emotion, but it's fine, it's good. But next day we're like, sitting and talk, ‘okay, we do this, this. We do it wrong. Okay, let's go back and play it better.’ Show emotion, I think it's good. I like to show emotion.”

“Shows you care,” I said.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 30

“Right now it's raw. At no point today did I expect for our season to be over," Dan Muse at the presser, and me, for the last hour.

x - dorothy @airyapricity: "at the suicide store yall want anything"

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 30

Girl who is not going to be OK...

Sidney Crosby on Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang: “They’re like family. … Hopefully we can keep it going.” — From Taylor Haase in Philadelphia

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 29

Totally cool and chill about tonight!!!!!!

Azelia Banks Instagram story “Are you ready to die” filled in with Philadelphia flyers

Pittsburgh Penguins: first team ever with 3 players age 38+ score in same series

Ted Lasso Believe sign in Penguins locker room

Sid aura circle posted by x - victoria (@vicsicmic)

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 29

Please enjoy this mood board intended to be viewed as audio of Dewar saying “Every win is a few more days together” plays on repeat

Twitter post by ei @mc71esbian: “genuinely why do cocaine when u can watch playoff hockey”

Sid in sunglasses and headphones under chyron that reads NHL Stanley Cup playoff: No team in NHL history has come back from trailing 3-0 in a series

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 26

pennipotentum (@spinozylvannian) riffing on the “Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by God to win.” But for NateMac missing the open net in gold medal game:
Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Canada believes that Mackinnon was chosen by god to miss an open net, but that this loss is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the United States
5:57 PM • Nov 5, 2024 • 2.1M Views

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 26

Going back to remind Feb self that arc of history is long, etc etc

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Things aren't looking great for FBI Director Kash Patel.
Speculation ramped up this week over which ranking administration chief will go next after Pentagon head Pete Hegseth ousted his Navy secretary - with President Donald Trump's blessing. Now, a top White House official tells Dasha that Patel is likely the next Cabinet-level official to go.
"It's only a matter of time," the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, said of the FBI director.
There are several reasons, the official said, but top among them is the number of negative stories centered on the FBI director is "not a good look for a Cabinet secretary," and Trump is fed up with the level of distraction.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 23

Filed under: how can u not be romantic about hockey

Sidney Crosby smiling after taking his first embellishment penalty and making eye contact with a Flyers fan

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 20

Run from the-- Run from the-- Run from the-- Run from the sunlight, Dracula

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 20

Writing this as an unpaid shill: Go see MONUMENTS! I wish all Americans could experience it. But if you are in L.A., and haven't, you can still change that!

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 17

My favorite answer in this genre came from the wonderful Pedro Lasch because it's undeniably true www.zocalopublicsquare.org/artist-pedro...

The other thing that gives me hope, but it’s not a very comforting hope, is that history is full of examples of the unpredictable. When the Soviet Union collapsed, nobody saw it coming. I was there for the immigrant rallies in 2006 which, again, nobody saw them coming; they were unprecedented. That’s my hope, that something really unexpected, that none of us will see coming, will happen. But of course I don’t know what it is.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 17

I do a ton of these silly lil interviews. They're quick hits that follow a very specific formula. Lately I've been taking them as an excuse to ask smart people what's making them hopeful. This was a good one from Michael Woo, who I could talk to all day www.zocalopublicsquare.org/1871-memoria...

I’m coming away from both the house-emptying experience and the passing of my sister thinking that life is long, and there is a lot you can do during your life. If you’re facing frustrations or limitations, think about how maybe good things can still come out of life, even when you’re dealing with sadness or frustration.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 15

We made it to jacaranda season, folks

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 9

Did not know we were getting new Patricia Lockwood this year!?!

Libby notification for Patricia Lockwood title “Agate Head / Stone Soup” for October 5, 2026

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Apr 8

Related, just read the latest Miranda July newsletter mirandajuly.substack.com/p/existentia...

For the last couple months I’ve been tunneling around underground doing research on patheticness. There is a fear of being pathetic (not creatively, but in relationships) that has grown large in the shadows; I fear it runs the show. (I just described this to a friend and she did not see it at all, “I see you as having a lot of confidence and humor in relationships and your partners sometimes being pathetic,” she said. Love that, but this patheticness is just very private, secret, and 98 percent internal.) In any case, I’ve come at it every which way1 and it’s been an interesting and painful inquiry.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 30

To make up for bad vibes earlier, here is a very good metro pup

I don’t know dog breeds but a very good cowspotted fluff riding the red line this AM

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 30

To curse the timeline

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - This is how Rahm Emanuel eats a salad:
He rips open its clear, clamshell container with two hands. He grabs the ramekin of the dressing. He pours it across the salad. Then he
picks up the salad container, shaking it with an intensity and ferocity that forces the balsamic throughout, giving no quarter to the greens and the grilled chicken.
This is material information, mind you, for his would-be 2028 Democratic presidential primary rivals. Because how Rahm eats a salad is how he does anything and everything: with intent and with verve and without mercy.

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 26

This was good! www.charoshane.com/blog/2026/3/...

Screenshot of the Lindy West circus paragraph

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 26

I keep saying it’s been a perfect storm that’s gotten me back into sports this year. But really it’s because hope feels in such short supply right now that I’m glomming onto the impossible dreams sport kindles. Love how this piece gets at that www.balls.ie/football/cze...

Excerpt from piece on continuing to hope despite it all

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 25

They can try all they want, Willmac will never be her

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 25

Who allowed this paragraph to go to print lol www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 25

If you're in LA and you haven't seen MONUMENTS yet, what are you doing with your life? Next Friday, you can even go for free

Email reminder that you can go to MONUMENTS at the Geffen free on the first Friday of every month

Jackie Mansky@jasmansky· Mar 25

If you want to know how chill I am for this short program, this was me holding the sign that got me on Japanese TV a month ago lol