“I am alone, the poem is alone, And the rest is for the worms.” (Cees Nooteboom, Bait)

Derrick Stacey Denholm. British Columbia artist. "summer cabin roof-top scene with family" (1993) Acrylic on canvas. Approx. 140 x 150 cm. #Art #BCArt #CanadianArt

Wow I had forgotten this scene! They've got such great vibes.

🖤 Bud Cort Adored your Harold (and also Maude, of course)

‘Four Night Seas’ is an exceptional first book of short stories. Niamh Mac Cabe takes the reader deep into the textures and instabilities of memory, desire and loss, with well-judged humour and vivid depictions of landscape and character. Published @lilliputpress.bsky.social March.

Highly recommended 🧵! Most entertaining read of the day!Contains comedy and tragedy perfectly balanced! Begs to be filmed! (Kaurismäki would be PERFECT)

Erst kommt das Fressen, Dann kommt die Moral. Happy Birthday Bertolt Brecht!

Genuinely upset to learn this. He has given so much joy to millions for centuries and doubtless for centuries to come. It's not right.

Noon Urs Oberlin To encounter a God is not everyone's thing. But you don't get asked. There he stands in the sunken road, goat-eyed the ocean on his horns...

If you see this, post something pink.

Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe

Poetry is a kind of lying Jack Gilbert Poetry is a kind of lying, necessarily. To profit the poet or beauty.

Wild. #caturday

The Doubletake Walk

‘…La Guillotine…it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a particular delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close.’ 📚C.Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 🖼️ P.-A. Demachy, Une exécution capitale #BookWormSat

‘On this matter I’m inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.’ 📚C.Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 🖼️ Réunion Gastronomique, French etching C19th #BookWormSat

‘A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other’ 📚C.Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities📷 Cover of Serial Vol.5, 1859 #BookWormSat

‘Mr Crunchers… always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name on it.’ 📚C.Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 📸 Alfie Bass as Cruncher, 1958 film #BookWormSat

VEGA III by Victor Vasarely, 1957 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137474

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

The Laden Bough

Cai Lei

“The so-called revolution”. Devours its children.

Day of the Voyage

Asger Jorn (the one of the telegram below), La Dolce Vita II, 1962

the painter Asger Jorn refuses a Guggenheim award, after someone else entered his work (1964)

As a gigantic insect awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into Andy Miller. Good morning.

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‘A cat having made acquaintance with a mouse, pretended such great love and friendship that he felt for her, that at last the mouse agreed that they should live and keep house together.’ 📚Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach #BookWormSat #OralTradition

“We will not open the door,” they cried out. “You are not our mother. She has a soft and gentle voice, but your voice is rough. You are the wolf.” 📚Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach #BookWormSat #OralTradition

‘Who has been eating from my plate? Who has been drinking from my cup?’ 📚Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, The Seven Ravens Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach #BookWormSat #OralTradition

“We can take off our swan-skins for only a quarter hour each evening. Only during that time do we have our human forms.” Crying, she said, “Can you not be redeemed?” 📚Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, The Six Swans Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach #BookWormSat #OralTradition

‘The princess began to cry and was afraid of the cold frog’ 📚Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach #BookWormSat #OralTradition

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

Dedicated to everyone who’s ever tried to teach a foreign language. Or learn a foreign language. And R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara. Thank you for all the laughs.

🖤 Catherine O’Hara

Nothing going well. #grickledoodle #dragon #fantasy #badday #knight #coffee #morning #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Artist: David Schmitt (German painter and printmaker)

Raymond Carver

Q.: Can an essentially boring and unoriginal person create original and interesting art? A) No B) Yes C) Yes but as a clear exception Both whimsy opinions out of thin air and concrete examples would be very welcome! (Q. to distract from burning world but also cos I‘d really like to know) #art

@davidwilloughby.bsky.social for reasons that absolutely needn't detain us here I was reading some Ruskin late last night and DO LEAVES BUT NOT UNNECESSARY ONES

coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/a...

My sister in Seattle made this cake for Minnesota. She says the flavor is "chocolate, caramel, rage." Phone number on the left is the Senate/House switchboard. Call it.

🚨Motion to endow the NOBEL PIECE PRIZE ‼️ 🎼🎶 a little piece of Greenland/ a little piece of ice/ some oil from Venezuela/ and Canada’d be nice/🎶🎵

The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Art Gallery.

The point is to evacuate language totally of its ability to hold meaning & thus to eviscerate our ability to make meaning together. It's not supposed to convince you but to silence us AND stop us listening to each other. In BAD LANGUAGE I call this anti-semism, an enmity to meaning-making.

The only known recording of Virginia Woolf's voice. She was born #OTD in 1882.