new york times piece on the currently unfolding noma controversy has everything you could ask for. collective punishment ("even the interns who had been upstairs picking elderflowers"), gusto-gentrification (a pop up? in LA? during the climate crisis?). amazing.

dude imagine you're upstairs picking elderflowers like a goddamn garden fairy and then you come back down to the ground floor and rene is just waiting for you winding up his uppercut like a smash bros character.