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Mescal’s Stanley is incontestably the leader of his pack, but he’s content to fade chummily into the background — a baseball star who’s happiest when surrounded by his team.

“He just had that spirit of being here before and knowing a lot and an incontestable, delusional positivity about everything. I just think that was his gift.”

San Francisco “has held these registrations for such a long time that they have become incontestable under federal law,” Chiu wrote in a letter to various Oakland officials.

Five years on and his prominence is still incontestable.

“Des Moines” showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and drug addiction, deception, and statements on the bleak, incontestable fact of human mortality.