The Empty $72 Million Home on Flathead Lake

 

Forbes - "America’s Most Mysterious Private Island Is For Sale At $72 Million—An Abandoned Palace And A Lake Monster Included"

Jalen Brunson - Hero

NY Mag - "Jalen Brunson’s Victory Lap"

The Capital Clubs

 

FT - "Arsenal, PSG and ther rise of the capital club"
By Simon Kuper

The rise and fall of monoculture

 

WSJ - "The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture"

"Everyone my age remembers “Jurassic Park,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the early seasons of “The Simpsons.” My teenage son and his friends watch and listen and play different things, sometimes even when they’re in the same room. Whatever it one day means to have grown up in the 2020s, it won’t have much to do with pop culture."

...

"To understand how things have changed, consider the case of anime, the Japanese animation style that used to live in the remotest corners of video stores and is now one of the hottest businesses in Hollywood. There may not be a lot of anime fans, but they’re a passionate group who turn out to theaters for hits like “Demon Slayer” and all subscribe to Sony’s streaming service Crunchyroll, which caters specifically to them.

Anime fans were always willing to spend lots of money, it turns out. Before digital distribution, there wasn’t a way to market or deliver content specifically to them, so the business wasn’t viable.

Building a mass audience, meanwhile, is harder than ever, because Hollywood can no longer force content on the country by giving it the best time slot or the best position on the shelves of Best Buy."

Ellen Hughes - Mom of Quinn, Jack, and Luke

 

The Athletic - "She raised 3 NHL stars. Now Ellen Hughes hopes to help the U.S. women’s hockey team win gold"

The Kwakwaka'wakw Nation Roots Behind the Seahawks Logo

 

BBC - "NFL team's logo links Super Bowl fans to indigenous roots"

Related,

Scientific American - "Seattle heads back to the Super Bowl. What even is a seahawk anyway?"

The Re-Rise of Bathhouses

 

Bloomberg - "Why We’re All Trading Happy Hours for the Bathhouse
By Madison Darbyshire and Eleanor Thornber

Previously,
The Sauna Lifestyle of Northern Minnesota (Jan. 25)

The Rise of Hunting

 

Bloomberg - "Can a Return to Hunting Change How America Eats?"
By Madison Darbyshire

"Wild game hunting has gained popularity across the US in the past five years, as the pandemic pushed people to seek outdoor activity and popular podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Theo Von became outspoken fans of the sport. Social media platforms — and that same podcast manoverse — allowed internet-famous hunters such as Steven Rinella, Cam Hanes, Adam Greentree and Donnie Vincent to build huge followings.

Rogan and others in the Make America Healthy Again-aligned world have framed wild game as part of a protein-heavy diet, making it more fashionable with a type of supplement-loving American man. But while hunting has long been popular in some regions of the US, guides say new demand for hunts is coming from the coasts and tech centers such as Austin. "

"Why I Can't Quit the New York Post"

 

By Vinson Cunningham for the New Yorker.

Paul Pierce Loses Celtics Bets and Walks 8 Hours Home

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— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 8, 2025

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— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 9, 2025

"Gregg Popovich: The Old-School Coach Who Saw the Future of the NBA"

 

WSJ - "Gregg Popovich: The Old-School Coach Who Saw the Future of the NBA"

"By the time the Spurs won their final championship under Popovich, knocking off James’s Miami Heat in 2014, they had become one of the highest-scoring teams in the league. Flags from every corner of the globe—Argentina, Brazil, Italy, New Zealand—were draped around the players’ necks on the podium.

Historically, the NBA’s greatest teams have tended to belong to America’s major cities: the ’60s Celtics, the ’70s Knicks, the ’80s Lakers, the ’90s Bulls. Popovich has tended to downplay his role in bringing an unlikely basketball dynasty to San Antonio. In 2021, Popovich offered his keys to success in the cutthroat world of professional basketball.

“Draft Tim Duncan,” Popovich said. “After that, stay alive.”"

"My Brain Finally Broke"

 

New Yorker - "My Brain Finally Broke"

By Jia Tolentino

Life After Death

 

New Yorker - "The Dire Wolf Is Back"
By D.T. Max

"I asked Lamm when a university lab would have completed a comparable effort.

“Never,” he replied.

On March 25th, I went to meet the two older pups, named Romulus and Remus. (The third pup, named Khaleesi—for the light-haired protagonist of “Game of Thrones”—was not yet ready for visitors, I was told.) I was given directions to a one-acre enclosure at a location in the northern U.S. The dire wolves normally live on a two-thousand-acre property far from the spot where I was headed. “They live like kings there,” Lamm told me. As I drove up to the enclosure, I saw Church, looking like Gandalf, with a bushy white beard, and Lamm, who, with his luxuriant, glossy facial hair, resembles Jon Snow, Ghost’s master. Matt James was present, and a phalanx of animal-care officers stood in a corner, in case there were problems.

I suddenly saw two shocks of white—the young dire wolves. Both attentive and wary, the animals seemed not from this world. They were impressively large: roughly eighty pounds apiece, at five months old. Lamm told me that they would likely weigh about a hundred and forty pounds at maturity—at least twenty pounds more than a large adult male gray wolf."

Robert Rodriguez on The Genuis of Quentin Tarantino

Global Migration According to Facebook Data

 

NYT - "To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First"

"The girls final dinner" White Lotus Season 3

Kendrick Lamar Taking UCLA Class in 2022

 

Billboard - "Kendrick Lamar Takes College Classes in Newly Surfaced Photos: ‘Just a Normal Day at UCLA’"

Patrick Mahomes's Dad Bod

 

The Athletic - "Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticism"

The Sauna Lifestyle of Northern Minnesota

 

NY Times - "In Search of Sauna Nirvana Around Lake Superior"

Heisman Trophy Winner Travis Hunter

 

(via ESPN and Adidas on IG)