Hal Espen
@halsf
Formerly at The New Yorker and Outside, currently in Santa Fe, presently in Seattle and environs. Now listening to on vinyl.
Presumably the edgy Popehat / Ken White June 9 post about Elon Musk, which he later mocked Jesse Singal for concern trolling about on Twitter, is the thing that got his account suspended after 12 days of Bluesky moderation handwringing.
Watching Shakespeare In Love in honor of Tom Stoppard, yet behold this bard of the subtitles.
Caroline Fraser’s Murderland just got a top-notch callout in Emma Brockes’s Guardian diary column, paired in a double feature of homicide with the great Mindhunter series. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It’s like Alice the Aussie-mix rescue dog has a twin, including the fur thing and the fearsome ability to organize and shepherd and run our lives 24/7. ❤️
Was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead. Rest in peace, Donna Jean Godchaux, shown here in her pre-Dead Muscle Shoals days, on Elvis’s left.
My impression is that there are multiple variations of the SF homage frog poster — one I’ve seen says HOPE. If AI, seems way over on the relatively benign side of villainy.