JP

BOO! Did I scare U... I wrote about attending a Death Café, an event where people gather to discuss death, and why it's important to be the most popular person at the Death Café johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/my-date-wi...

[solemnly and full of dread] here comes the hotstepper

oh bother

this got an lol outta me johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

auto-translate on social media will not bring us closer together it will make us hate each other in novel, at times thrilling ways as a species

literally nothing scared me like De Palma's Carrie (1976) when I was a kid. I thought that was the scariest a movie could be

I hate being a millennial because sometimes I will melodramatically ask myself "what am I doing?" and mental autocorrect suggests "oh yeah that's right I'm doing me" . I would pay an exorcist good money to remove Drake from my brain entirely

I think there are fewer psyops than people like to believe. I think maybe one or two pysops pop off every few months and when it happens everyone in the office is like YAAAAY!

is it the Madame Web review

after retiring my last story for The Moth, I'm back with a new one! it's unhinged! I'm debuting it here in NYC on October 22nd! tickets here www.themoth.org/tickets/the-...

I actually can't believe how lazy I'm being today

A painfully beautiful take on being single, gay, and feeling eternally broken but never knowing where the cracks are, if there is a piece missing, and if glue or anything at all could help repair. Using a pull quote to repost felt like a disservice to the kind of writing that feels like a mirror 🫂

opened chess dot com today. the bots are Halloween-themed. this is a huge relief because if they hadn't been Halloween-themed I would have done something drastic. I would have lost control

thinking about how rich I'd be if I didn't have chronic anxiety. because I would have started a lucrative cult by now

oh interesting. I have to do stuff in order for certain things to happen

Wow. This really gets at some of the experiences I've been trying to articulate/ write about recently. But it's also just an extremely enjoyable read. This is the kind of writing I really wish we saw more of.

"I don’t believe in psychics, but I believe in curses. A curse is misfortune, with a storyline. Inside, a curse, tragedy, is a natural force. Like the wind, or the sea. It makes certain activities on certain days impossible."

Yes

I'm not even abstaining out of snobbery like I simply know that TikTok would ruin my life. that would be a wrap on "my brain." I recognized this immediately and never touched the stuff

just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

Insomnia has its perks. This is the most brilliant thing I’ve read all night.

still attempting to be a weed edible person. ate 6 garlic knots and laughed until I cried at a hypothetical joke about "fashion weak" with no idea what the setup or even the punchline was. just imagining a frail creature ambling down a catwalk

A lot of people are saying this is good and they're really underselling it.

I actually enjoy that this is wrong but in a correct way

*sigh*....fuck

hoje não john paul eu já to lidando com coisas demais (agendei um tarot)

Love it when a writer I admire writes something that is peak *them* - fantastic in all the ways they’re known for being fantastic.

Funniest fucking article I've read all year.

someone trying to clown on me for having sex… no that’s the part that makes me a normal New Yorker actually

It's peak

Babe 😭 (Genuinely, read this right now. It's excellent.)

“I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. “Because you’re Mexican?” he asked. I asked what he meant. “Isn’t a novella a Mexican novel?””

fewer people questioning the “I’m Winston Churchill’s reincarnation” than I anticipated, which is for the best

This was SO good

I'm sorry but "I don't believe Helen Keller existed. There's just no way she actually flew that plane." is perhaps the best 1st date icebreaker of all time...

lord have mercy