Jackie Mansky

@jasmansky.bsky.social

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

“Google’s functional monopoly on search had plenty of negative effects on the internet, so it’s hard to mourn its decline wholeheartedly. But as a mode of looking things up, I love Googling. It feels like wandering in an infinite library. Searching something up with a chatbot leads immediately to a conclusion: The journey happens without you, and the answer simply arrives. The search is over, almost as soon as it began.”
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."
Sheila Heti episode alert for The Critics and Her Publics
Excerpt from Searches by Vauhini Vara: “I began using Google because Dana said it t was better and more ethical than other search engines…”
Email from Esquire with subj line: "How a Hair Transplant Could Change Your 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.
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.
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.
“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.
x - dorothy @airyapricity: "at the suicide store yall want anything"
Sidney Crosby on Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang: “They’re like family. … Hopefully we can keep it going.” — From Taylor Haase in Philadelphia
Azelia Banks Instagram story “Are you ready to die” filled in with Philadelphia flyers
Twitter post by ei @mc71esbian: “genuinely why do cocaine when u can watch playoff hockey”
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
Kash Patel on Dylan Larkin's IG live
Sidney Crosby smiling after taking his first embellishment penalty and making eye contact with a Flyers fan
Meme of Emma Stone in Easy A singing "I Got A Pocketful Of Sunshine"
Screenshot of MOCA newsletter: MONUMENTS FREE FOR ALL April 29 – May 3, 2026 MONUMENTS is in its final days — and admission is free for all from April 29 – May 3. This is your last chance to experience one of the most talked-about exhibitions of the year. Join us for extended hours and a final series of guided tours before it's gone. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 Wednesday, April 29: 11am–5pm Thursday, April 30: 11am–5pm Friday, May 1: CLOSED Saturday, May 2: 10am–8pm Sunday, May 3: 10am–6pm
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.
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.
Flowering jacaranda tree in DTLA
Libby notification for Patricia Lockwood title “Agate Head / Stone Soup” for October 5, 2026
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.
I don’t know dog breeds but a very good cowspotted fluff riding the red line this AM
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.
Screenshot of the Lindy West circus paragraph
Excerpt from piece on continuing to hope despite it all
SidGeno
Athletic doing Sharks fan fic
Email reminder that you can go to MONUMENTS at the Geffen free on the first Friday of every month
Leaning into sports fan culture for the first time/holding a Team Kaori sign
Preorder ur copy of Body Weather!!!
The bodyguard was Eteri
Mention in “golden rule” by young friend
“Cults comfort their followers with delusions of their own importance, but they also control them through paranoia and terror, which is why their leaders almost always start to talk about the end of the world.” From Alice Bolin’s Culture Creep
Screenshot from Psych Today piece on the May Gray of it all
Evgeni Revere in LV
Geno to media saying the love of my life has returned from war (injury)
SidCros beautiful SidCros healthy SidCros backkkkj
Via email issuing a correction that he had too many martinis and meant Friedrich Flick not Goebbels
“Black Parade” by MCR playing over their hug on Insta
I am unwell (Quickie and Kopi embrace)
Peace, love, Dayglow seasonal spring banana cream coffee
Offish: Kopi all-time Kings point record / confirmed angel of a human
Trump admin getting $10 billion for brokering Tiktok deal
lil marshmellowy adipose
Twitter being emo about Tessa and Scott
A zillion cars breaking traffic laws to cross into dodger stadium for packet pickup
Screenshot of a user rhetorically threatening what they'd do if anyone forces Dunkin' to change its iced coffee recipe
-The Grief Cure -Esther Perel episode on grief -All There Is With Anderson Cooper podcast in general -I think it's this episode of This Jungian Life (I'm just a huge fan of this pod in general, and they address grief a lot on it) -Stay True -Our Wives Under the Sea -Whalefall -Man's Search for Meaning -Pure Colour -Small Rain -Intermezzo -LOL OK this may have just been a me/timing thing, but the plot about the dog in The Pisces really hit but I don't think most people would lead with loss as this book's major theme so YMMV -This is another one that I'd asterisk. So I think sometimes with loss there's this piece of anger that you carry so Molly by Blake Butler spoke to that for me but flagging because it's dark -And hear me out, Vampire Diaries. I was just looking for a show with a lot of seasons but realized at some point it is all about loss, and then read a piece that confirmed it was very intentionally about that
Excerpt from “Shock Doctrine” chapter 6
Fans calling for better pay for women's hockey players at Thursday's Victoire-Sirens game
Eteri Tuberitze and NateMac tweets back to back
A picture of an up rent, knock off crustable marketed “protein pb&j”
Chris Jones on SidCros
Silver Lake United Bar showing hockey and futbol
Alysa in a mirror selfie
Kaori skating in the 2026 Olympic gala
Fans holding Crosby signs and a Crosby doll in Milan
Photo of book