{"id":162658563,"date":"2026-07-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658563"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:42:14","slug":"friday-links-into-the-sea-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658563","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links: Into The Sea Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cThe sea is, if anything, famously huge.\u201d &#8211; Kathleen Rooney, \u2018Man Overboard!\u2019<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your floors do not have sand residue, if your clothes don&#8217;t smell vaguely of sunscreen and chlorine, if your grill remains untouched, if you haven&#8217;t eaten outside, if you haven&#8217;t taken a personal day off work, if you haven&#8217;t gone to a street festival, if you haven&#8217;t gone for a bike ride, if you haven&#8217;t tossed a frisbee around, if you haven&#8217;t walked around your neighborhood right as the sun is starting to set and the bugs start singing, my dude, what are you doing? Granted, I haven&#8217;t done <em>all<\/em> of those yet. It&#8217;s summer tho. Let&#8217;s have a summer. We&#8217;re reading the perfect book for it this week, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey, would ya look at that? We got a new <em>Lazy &amp; Entitled Podcast<\/em> this week, <em>featuring an interview with this week&#8217;s author<\/em>, Kathleen Rooney. Amazing stuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/going-overboard-with-kathleen-rooney\/id1794860065?i=1000776146653\">Apple<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5hPdv9H6VO54vhonUtSGaf?si=aRHj73P8Sh-eeSxWYKmIyQ\">Spotty<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/lazyandentitled\/july1podcast?si=95762860f9f34f70a4eb4f186aff44f1&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">SoundCloud<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What I&#8217;ve Been Reading This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A perfect beach read. Wait, let&#8217;s define terms (everyone&#8217;s favorite beach activity, defining terms). I define a perfect beach read by three metrics: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>gotta move. I need short chapters and fast prose. But it&#8217;s also gotta surprise. I&#8217;m not here for boring language, I&#8217;m not here for pure plot. I can watch movies if you&#8217;re not gonna bother to write good sentences or challenge my thinking. Books can be easy to read <em>and<\/em> thoughtfully crafted, idk if anyone knows this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>gotta make me fall <em>hard<\/em> for the character, and the character should be an idiot. Many of literature&#8217;s greatest narrators are idiots. Arthur Dent, although he&#8217;s not first-person narrating. Same for Doc Sportello in <em>Inherent Vice<\/em>. Nate from <em>White People On Vacation<\/em> is first-person. Rob from <em>High Fidelity<\/em> and Will from <em>About A Boy<\/em>. The biggest idiot in literary history is Harry Stables from <em>Trouble Finds You<\/em>, and I love him so, so much. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>gotta take place on or near water. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book does all of these, and it rips like a tide, homies. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about <em>Man Overboard!<\/em> by Kathleen Rooney. Oh what&#8217;s this? A bonus song to listen to while you read the book section? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Into The Sea\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-jbF8I4VEGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Man Overboard!<\/em> by Kathleen Rooney:<\/strong> we meet our idiot, Patrick &#8220;Kick&#8221; Kilpatrick, on the ocean. Literally\u2014he is no longer on the cruise ship that he boarded and got rum-plastered on just yesterday. Instead, he&#8217;s floating in the sea somewhere between New Orleans and Cozumel, naked except for boxers and a tank top, wondering how he got here. Genuinely, he can&#8217;t remember: was he pushed? Did he fall? Did he <em>jump<\/em>? Like <em>on purpose<\/em>? Like <em>suicide<\/em>?<sup data-fn=\"2c079b99-90fa-4a6f-ba92-c5e9036070a9\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#2c079b99-90fa-4a6f-ba92-c5e9036070a9\" id=\"2c079b99-90fa-4a6f-ba92-c5e9036070a9-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> Each question brings up more troubling questions. Luckily, Kick&#8217;s got time to think. Or, uh, hallucinate conversations with sea creatures. Maybe not hallucinate, who knows. Point is, Kick&#8217;s going on a mental journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"a book, Man Overboard! by Kathleen Rooney, held in a hand\" class=\"wp-image-162658620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-1320x1760.jpeg 1320w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A9D1349A-3091-4BFA-AD7E-5031858AC9AF-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Man Overboard! by Kathleen Rooney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing about Kick is he&#8217;s just a dude. He&#8217;s a personal trainer at a gym that his friend owns. He&#8217;s in pretty good shape. He&#8217;s reasonably close with his sister. He&#8217;s in a &#8220;we&#8217;re not putting labels on it&#8221; with Justeen, who&#8217;s both super hot <em>and<\/em> age-appropriate for early-30s Kick. He&#8217;s not some manosphere grifter, or &#8220;#metoo went to far&#8221; jerk, or MAGA. That said, he&#8217;s not exactly strong or secure in his values. He considers sleeping with some woman at cruise ship karaoke (remember, that was his first night on the ship). He doesn&#8217;t push back when Ankush, his gym-owning friend, says he should listen to Joe Rogan. He is a personal trainer<sup data-fn=\"4feaa956-fbf5-4284-85e9-b2e2b79b1f9b\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#4feaa956-fbf5-4284-85e9-b2e2b79b1f9b\" id=\"4feaa956-fbf5-4284-85e9-b2e2b79b1f9b-link\">2<\/a><\/sup> who sleeps with clients. He tells everyone his mom died of cancer when he was 10, but that isn&#8217;t what happened at all. His mom survived cancer, and after her brush with death, decided to leave her not-great-and-not-gonna-get-better husband and pursue the life she really wanted before she got pregnant. Kick has absolutely never dealt with that trauma, has absolutely never established a value system for himself, and now he is floating in the sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I&#8217;m trying to get at with that paragraph is I think Kick is a kind of underrepresented man in contemporary narratives about masculinity. Personally, I believe the &#8220;masculinity crisis&#8221; is somewhat overblown, but I won&#8217;t deny that men are mostly trash. Kick isn&#8217;t trash in loud ways, he is trash in fixable ways if he just decides to get his shit together. I&#8217;ve been there. Shit, 33 was around the time I turned my life around. If Kick is rescued, you hope his journey results in inner peace or enlightenment or better understanding of his mother or whatever. You also hope he can maybe drag some of his casually shitty friends and relatives out of the gutter, too. First, though, he&#8217;s got to get out of the unforgiving sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LINKS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something to listen to while you browse? Cruise ships love playing reggae songs, but they know that their customers don&#8217;t <em>actually like<\/em> reggae, so they play the same shit over and over. I address this in my story &#8220;Aboard Empire Cruise Lines,&#8221; available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/B0GZQGKQ4S?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_1BBSAN4C7ZY5XHXF9CV9&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_1BBSAN4C7ZY5XHXF9CV9&amp;social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_1BBSAN4C7ZY5XHXF9CV9&amp;bestFormat=true\">latest edition of Hollowpoint Press&#8217;s journal<\/a>. In spite of white people, I do generally enjoy reggae. I like the way the music is written, with high guitar chords and bass lines that often start on an upbeat. So here&#8217;s Pachyman on KEXP: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pachyman - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fpH832P2Tg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This week in ICE: <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/unlike-the-defendants-one-of-the-prairieland-judges-is-part-of-an-organized-cell-of-extremists\">Unlike The Defendants, One Of The Prairieland Judges Is Part Of An Organized Cell Of Extremists<\/a> by Sohini Desai in <em>Defector<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/amp\/world\/mexico-to-seek-criminal-charges-over-deaths-linked-to-ice-after-fatal-shooting-of-houston-man\">Mexico to seek criminal charges over deaths linked to ICE after fatal shooting of Houston man<\/a> by Mar\u00eda Verza of <em>The AP <\/em>(accessed in <em>PBS<\/em>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/06\/memphis-national-guard-troops-shoot-man\">Tennessee national guard troops shoot man dead in Memphis<\/a> by Richard Luscombe (and agencies?) in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/ice-arrest-of-nun-in-southern-texas-spurs-bipartisan-concern\">ICE arrest of nun in southern Texas spurs bipartisan concern<\/a> by Sydney Carruth in <em>MSNOW<\/em>,<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/ice-detained-10000-people-in-5-days-after-white-house-ordered-surge-in-arrests\/\"> ICE Detained 10,000 People in 5 Days After White House Ordered Surge in Arrests<\/a> by Shireen Akram-Boshar in <em>Truthout<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskapublicmedia.org\/en\/news\/news-articles\/a-venezuelan-man-was-accused-of-attempting-to-choke-an-ice-officer-to-death-in-bellevue-bystander-video-tells-a-different-story\/\">A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story<\/a> by Molly Ashford in <em>Nebraska Public Media<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2026\/07\/09\/ice-arrests-are-on-the-rise-in-chicago-heres-what-immigrants-need-to-know\/\">ICE Arrests Are On The Rise Again In Chicago. Here\u2019s What Immigrants Need To Know<\/a> by Francia Garcia Hernandez in <em>Block Club<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/2026\/07\/07\/chicago-venezuela-asylum-seeker-court-immigration-policy-trump-dhs\/\">\u2018They\u2019re Going to Take Everything Away in Just One Month\u2019 <\/a>by Camille Vocelka in <em>Borderless Mag<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/seminole-nation-data-centers\">Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land<\/a> by Joe Wilkins in <em>Futurism<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techfixated.com\/young-inventor-who-left-engineering-studies-removes-nearly-50-million-kilograms-of-ocean-plastic-aims-to-eliminate-90-of-floating-waste-by-2040\/\">Young inventor who left engineering studies removes nearly 50 million kilograms of ocean plastic, aims to eliminate 90% of floating waste by 2040<\/a> in <em>Tech Fixated<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/sectors\/technology\/articles\/starbucks-quietly-retired-its-ai-agent-just-months-after-deployment-after-it-miscounted-coffee-shop-inventories-and-slowed-down-baristas-192259953.html\">Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas<\/a> by Sasha Rogelberg in <em>Fortune<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b1a62a7f-6df5-4c90-94ce-64ce9c9961b6?syn-25a6b1a6=1\">Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores<\/a> (paywalled, I&#8217;m honestly sharing a headline) in <em>Financial Times<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblioklept.org\/2014\/07\/09\/lewis-and-clark-overheard-in-conversation-james-tate\/\">&#8220;Lewis and Clark Overheard In Conversation&#8221;<\/a> by James Tate in <em>Biblioklept<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;re you still doing here? To continue what I was saying earlier, they have three songs they play on cruise ships. &#8220;Brown-Eyed Girl,&#8221; &#8220;No Woman No Cry,&#8221; and &#8220;Margaritaville.&#8221; I&#8217;m the son of a parrothead, and you could probably call the way I dress &#8220;punk parrothead.&#8221; So I thought it&#8217;d be fun to see what sorts of interesting covers YouTube has to offer of &#8220;Margaritaville.&#8221; After wading through a slippery-clean, smelling-of-cleaning-product-and-sellouts pool of Zac Brown and Miranda Lambert, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z43jDl1mGQc&amp;list=RDZ43jDl1mGQc&amp;start_radio=1\">someone covering it in D minor<\/a> (the original is in D major). What if &#8220;Margaritaville&#8221; sounded like a Sade or Dire Straits song? Sure, that&#8217;s fun. The winner, though, is polka on the beach. Take it away, West Coast Prost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett (Cover) - West Coast Prost!  #RIPJimmy\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzzLo8GZGn8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you work in the service industry, may you clean up in tips this weekend. Especially if you work on a cruise ship. My god. Actually, if you are a cruise ship worker and reading this while &#8220;cleaning&#8221; during an 18-hour shift? Thank you for choosing the shipwrecked sailor blog. Sorry about what that one person said to you earlier, you didn&#8217;t deserve that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry you got an email, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris<\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"2c079b99-90fa-4a6f-ba92-c5e9036070a9\">that&#8217;s right dudes, lazy and entitled dot org is not subject to the same algorithmic censorship other places are. We don&#8217;t run from the truth here, and we don&#8217;t say &#8220;unalived.&#8221; All that said, if you need help, please seek it. The National Suicide Hotline can be reached by dialing 988. There&#8217;s never any shame in getting the help you need.  <a href=\"#2c079b99-90fa-4a6f-ba92-c5e9036070a9-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"4feaa956-fbf5-4284-85e9-b2e2b79b1f9b\">I wouldn&#8217;t exactly call Kick vain, but he does care a good deal about his appearance. It seems like normal levels of caring about his appearance to me, but maybe that says something about how much I care about my appearance, because it read as familiar.   <a href=\"#4feaa956-fbf5-4284-85e9-b2e2b79b1f9b-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 2\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe sea is, if anything, famously huge.\u201d &#8211; Kathleen Rooney, \u2018Man Overboard!\u2019 If your floors do not have sand residue, if your clothes don&#8217;t smell vaguely of sunscreen and chlorine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162658620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"that's right dudes, lazy and entitled dot org is not subject to the same algorithmic censorship other places are. We don't run from the truth here, and we don't say \\\"unalived.\\\" All that said, if you need help, please seek it. 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