Evan Rytlewski

@evanryt.bsky.social

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Writer. Contributor: Pitchfork. Alum: Radio Milwaukee, WMSE, Shepherd Express. Bylines: NPR, The AV Club, Washington Post, Spin, Stereogum, Paste.

Ray Nitti a few days ago, saying he’s voting for Crowley anyway
A Louis Thayer Hills abstract. At first it looks like a very good Rothko knockoff — it’s unmistakable, with two big red and white color blocks — but it gradually reveals itself to be something much more personal, with suggestions of landscape and architecture in the figures hiding in plain sight in the white block. A striking work I wish I owed so I could look at it every day.
Uncle Scrooge in NES Duck Tales, telling the kids that because of them he really is the richest duck in the world
Hayden Thomas Allen Church (forget his name but he was v good in this) in Shattered Glass
A fairly minimal, restrained abstract, lots of white space, vertical, with a pop of great red/orange color. Looks like one of Kwint's faces is suggested on the right half of the canvas, you can choose to ignore it or zero in on it. If you do, other faces start to emerge.
Restraint personified. An early November-hued abstract, all red and browns and grays against blue suggestive of either a sky or a lake. A red-white form sits as the focal point on the canvas with few clues as to what it is supposed to represent. It feels very alone.
Faces and femininity, mystical hues and spiritual iconography, nervy expressions that scan as glamour
The most amazing and vibrant pink mixed media collage with a young girl proudly walking some kind of lizard toy. There’s a lot going on.
Crisp forms and blurry ones, an uncommonly pleasing abstract
A landscape abstraction from Theodore Czebotar, with cliffs that look a bit like chiseled faces. It’s like the Wisconsin Dells by way of Easter Island
An absolute masterclass in mixed media abstraction, redolent of needle and thread and protractors. Nobody did it better.
A furious red Kenn Kwint painting, suggestive of graffiti and Halloween and anger and Sunday morning comics
Bakersfield P.D.
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck. Need to discuss with somebody else who has read this.
It's real and it looks great! an open world video game set on the East Side of Milwaukee in 1994. The character is standing in front of Phase II and an Oriental Theatre marquee shwoign The Piano, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues and Boxing Helena
I don't want to be too spoilery but it's Patricia from Widow's Bay, this week's episode
A TMJ4 promo shot with Pete from Season 5 on the right, a Don Draper-coded guy in the middle, an Alison Brie-esque woman on the left, a kind of bearded guy who you recognize but whose name you never remember, all greeting a woman wearing a lot of read who we only see from the back
Emogame
88 runs baby
John Cale's scarecrow sleeves from the new Charli XCX album cover
Method Man and Redman's Blackout! 2
A beautiful family photo of Bradley Nowell holding Sublime heir Jabok while Jabok’s mother, Lou Dog, looks on approvingly
Simpsons people from the future admiring a block of cement that says BART and wondering who Bart is and how his name ended up in cement
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air DVD cover for season three. Will is holding an Apple white ambiguous music playing device that is too small to be a Walkman.
“Go for it.”
One of the final pictures of Kurt Cobain. Mike Park famously offered to fly Cobain out to San Jose to work on an album together, but Cobain, already in decline, never took him up on the offer, but he pinned the plane ticket to the wall outside of his bedroom.
Homer holding a Wisco Stu jacket
Those brisket parfaits they used to sell at Miller Park. They look like a sundae but with mashed potatoes. Simpler times. Better times.
Ben Shapiro, looking bizarre with eyebrows three times bigger than usual and an odd mustache. Really does choices all around.
A tweet announcing that Dave Begel has died. "PR man. Columnist. Radio talk show host. Storyteller. Musician. East side legend."
A nondescript modern, grey building called Landmark Credit Union Live
An AI-generated flyer for Coffee with a LGBTQ cop at Anodyne Coffee
Liam Neeson in The Naked Gun, considering it
James Hurley performing “Basketball Shoes” for Donna and Maddie
A Quora question: "What kind of demon is Elmo?"
“Oh, you’re an R.E.M fan?” From The Hard Times. An all timer
Cobain's handwritten list of his top 50 albums. It's taken from his journals and very easy to find online in text form.
The family from Bobby’s World
A FB ad for One Battle After Another on HBO