Jason Fry

@jasoncfry.bsky.social

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Writer, Mets fan, Star Wars dork, genial malcontent.

Ackbar warning us -- though probably not about a new option for grocery stores -- that IT'S A TRAP!!!
Joe Sheehan: This trade is a microcosm of the real problem MLB has faced for decades. It’s not about haves and have-nots, but wants and want-nots. The Dodgers, and teams like them, want to win more than teams like the Tigers do, so they go out and acquire the Tigers’ best pitcher. MLB has built an entire labor strategy and media campaign around demonizing the Dodgers, when in fact it’s the Tigers who are wrecking baseball. You have to be through the looking glass to think the sport’s problem is the team that’s trying to win rather than the team that’s trading Tarik Skubal while sitting 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.
Cover of the Figgs’ album Sucking in Stereo
A bag of dried mealworms.
Project 2025, the policy blueprint by the conservative Heritage Foundation, called for the elimination of Head Start. “The program should function to protect and educate minors,” the document says. “Sadly, it has done exactly the opposite.”
Hallee Whatshername in the True Grit remake
A question from a crazy person: If I leave the plastic water bottle in my car for a few days, is it safe to drink the water when I come back?
The forthcoming book Star Wars: A Celebration
Emily Wilson quote: “It’s actually not that complicated. It’s people trying to come up with narratives to justify some knee-jerk desire to cast aspersions on or hate people of particular categories, and to come up with stories about why am I totally right to be consumed by online hatred, and why am I not an idiot to be wasting my life like this. For whatever reason, people seem to enjoy being angry sometimes. But I don’t think it’s particularly complicated.”
Interior of Wesleyan Chapel at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park
A lynx whose fur is glass shards
Me looking enraptured by a root beer float.
Mirabito Stadium from behind home plate
Luke milking a space manatee boob
Intrigued by her voice, Mr. Steinman invited her to his apartment in Manhattan to run through “Total Eclipse of the Heart” — which, he told her, he had originally written for an unfinished musical about the vampire Nosferatu.
I have recap
"Inconceivable!" from The Princess Bride
Me and Mr. Met, who is admiring my tattoo of Mr. Met.
Headline: Iran Gets Major Economic Lifeline for Minimal Concessions in Initial Deal Subhead: The agreement delays the most difficult steps for Iran for later talks, while granting it crucial benefits.
The White House disgraced by MMA bullshit
A 1982 custom card of Rick Sweet, showing off his trademark handlebar mustache
Blue hydrangeas behind a black iron fence. Shit’s pretty.
Jacob Misiorowski violated the Geneva Conventions in doing violence to the Philadelphia Phillies
Front of my kayak, lower Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn Bridge.
Me on the East River in kayak gear with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Freedom Tower behind me. The composition is so fucking exquisite that if you hold your head close to the picture you can hear angels sighing.
A plate of crackers with a card that says … (drum roll) … CRACKERS
The buildings of Brooklyn Heights beneath a nice blue sky with dramatic clouds. Shit looks cinematic.
Me and Emily yelling in the first car on the Cyclone, with our friend Peter perfectly framed behind us
A plate with two pastéis de nata, an espresso, and Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few.
Me and Leland onstage talking maps
Chris next to me at a panel
Headline: Nicole Polizzi of 'Jersey Shore' Relaxes by Watching Zombies
So much bullshit
Still more bullshit
More bullshit
Bad umpiring
A Coke can that appears to say HO. I was insulted too.
A common tern, though that name feels faintly pejorative.
The hosts of Top Chef
Purty red, yellow, pink and white roses.
Two blue and white Nespresso capsules. They look like Portuguese tiles! It’s adorable AF!
The web-shrouded skull of Acererak the Demi-Lich, with gems for eyes and teeth. Or maybe it's me looking in the mirror. Who can tell these days?
With the world’s most important fossil fuel supply route at a near-standstill, many advocates for wind and solar say the transition to renewable energy is about to shift to a much higher speed. The United Nations climate chief, Simon Stiell, recently described an “immense irony” in which leaders who have “fought to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels are inadvertently supercharging the global renewables boom.” He didn’t name President Trump, but the United States is aggressively promoting petroleum and natural gas, and its attack on Iran has led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the route for about one-fifth of global oil trade.
Open to new experiences
Globe Life Park interior
Me standing by a sign denoting the Llano County, Texas line.
Citi Field from the stands
Two lights. (With reflections.)
Me wearing a Cyclones jersey I got as a prize with Superman and Krypto on it.
Prologue of the TLJ novelization, which opens with “Luke Skywalker stood in the cooling sands of Tatooine, his wife by his side.” OP wants to know who would open a book that way and expresses a wish to strangle me.
Headline: ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
“Guys that I’ve talked to that are still working, they’d rather just let the computer call (everything). Then you don’t have to worry about anything,” Darling added, noting that the opinion was not universal.
Cassian from Rogue One says "I'm not the one you gotta convince."
A Twitter post: "Jason Fry’s Expanded Novelization for The Last Jedi is still one of my favorite novelizations for any Star Wars movie. Honestly might just be tied with Matthew Stover’s iconic novelization for Revenge of the Sith IMO. Took an already beautiful, thematically profound story and somehow found a way to make it arguably even better. Even if you don’t love this film, I can’t recommend this book enough. Absolutely phenomenal writing. Billions must read!" And a very nice reply: "I hope Jason Fry can come to write a new SW book soon."
A Cap Bingo list with the teams of the NL East visible
Headline: Quadruple Amputee Professional Cornhole Player Jailed on Murder Charges