Twenty-four-year-old Anthony “Emory” Hernandez Valadez own $18 million in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. He claimed that the company’s talc-based baby powder caused him cancer. Unfortunately, he won’t live long enough to use his money. Isn’t life a fucking bitch? Even if you have all that money, you can’t use it. Enjoy life while you can or it will be too late. Life is too short to stress out.

Gần đây hay bị đói lúc nửa đêm và phải vào bếp ăn cereal với sữa mới ngủ không bị bụng cồn cào. Chắc đã trở thành thói quen vì giờ đã khuya mà vẫn thấy đói. Đêm nay quyết định không ăn nên chỉ viết lên blog. Thôi buồn ngủ rồi. Tạm biệt nhé. Mai rảnh viết tiếp.

As long as they stay the fuck out of my way, I don’t give a fuck. I just need to make my money and get the fuck out. I am done dealing with all the incompetent bullshit.

I am looking forward to reading books written by Vietnamese authors:

• A Man of Two Faces, a memoir by Việt Thanh Nguyễn
• Banyan Moon, a novel by Thảo Thái
• Nothing Follows, poems by Lan P. Dương
• Owner of a Lonely Heart, a memoir by Beth Nguyễn

Jim Jones, a Vietnam combat veteran who served 12 years as a justice on the Idaho Supreme Court, opines:

[Leonard] Leo has not overlooked other members of the SCOTUS. majority, making perks available through affiliates, such as Scalia Law, George Mason University’s law school in Virginia, and other gatherings where the justices can rub elbows with conservative business titans.

A couple of weeks ago, I lost a pair of my prescription glasses. Yesterday, I lost another pair. I am at the age where I need the string to stop me from losing my glasses.

I have a profile page on Marketplace where I sell new and used hockey skates, figure skates, roller skates, and rollerblades. My kids grew out of them and some aren’t interested anymore. Prices are dirt cheap. I had bought used skates, skis, and snowboards on Marketplace as well. I guess I just can’t deactivate Facebook.

Kris Sowersby writes:

To curate means to care, not to make a list. We like to remember those who start things, but the real work of archives and institutions is the maintenance and continuation of them. Starting something is easy, caring for it over centuries is hard.

Read Kris’s in-depth essay on Martina Plantijn, his latest typeface release.

Vào ngày của cha, người ta chúc cho những người cha một ngày vui vẻ. Giờ đây vào ngày cha, con chỉ nghĩ đến ba. Xin cầu nguyện cho linh hồn của ba được yên nghỉ.

Max Berlinger writes for the New York Times about the return of aggressive skating. I prefer aggressive skating as an underdog sport at the skate parks so I just do my own things without being embarrassed.