the lights jig in the diving pool / with a concertina movement

#stl and #stlco deploy the snow plows.

Tja...

where tf does Trump get his Irregular Capitalization from? hardly from the Reading of eighteenth century diaries and Pamphlets...

startled to hear a Spanish station, staticky but v clear on the car radio COPE Madrid, 1450km away 999kHz on the depopulated MW band

The amount of work and thought by so many different people apart from the author that lead to a well made book is not easy to imagine for an outsider to this industry. (Many of them are grossly underpaid, btw.) Brían's preface to a work he'd translated might give a tiny glimpse into what it takes:

Fingal erasure... (we could have had French Guiana)

inside the concrete factory

Really blown away by The Black Pool by Tim MacGabhann so far – about 2/3 through it. Perhaps hits harder that I spent some time with Tim and know what a gentle person he is, to see how hard his life became. This is a memoir about his slide into drinking, heroin use. A slow surrendering of the self.

ekstatic ekphrasis Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42565/...

"there's nobody handles Handel like you handle Handel" Edgar Kennedy & Rex Harrison in "Unfaithfully Yours" (Preston Sturges, 1948)

delicate & ephemeral as a passing thought Willie Nelson, (How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again, 1974 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1nE...

🇲🇽 runs on oil and guns

7 years / 700 pages a v good book; a v long & complex task of translation The World in Flames: a Global History of the Seven Years' War (Columbia U.P.)

Composition dans un cercle https://www.wikiart.org/en/sophie-taeuber-arp/composition-dans-un-cercle-1937

inside the concrete factory

US WW2 home front poster, sinister, almost noir

New at No Fences Review: @jonbern.bsky.social talks to me about his new biography of Justin Townes Earle. Released today, it's a stunning book and I really enjoyed talking with Bernstein about it. Please share and subscribe!

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

my traveling companions (they dislike each other)

arachnoid intersection

the body is the writer's essential tool John Durham Peters, "The Anthropoid Condition" lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

'Gatti’s Hungerford Palace of Varieties. Second Turn of Katie Lawrence' (1903) by Walter Sickert (Yale Art Gallery)

the US takeover of the Virgin Islands included imposing Prohibition

7'' krautrock / sacred music from Djong Yun, who was a singer w/ Popul Vuh www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNv...

shattered glass cover photo

The Daily Rothno is a painted out ARSENAL ANTIFA graffiti on a hoarding in Highbury

Siqueiros, "The Devil in Church," 1947

müüd

I think it was Spike Milligan that wrote "When Robert Graves / Misbehaves / It's the torca / Mallorca"

welcome to hell, gorgeous

This is spot on #Luddism (eng. translation in alt)

Miles Davis (Guy Le.Querrec, 1969)

the percentage foreign-born population of Ireland in 1988 is about equal to the percentage foreign-born population of Mexico in 2026 in both cases, 1-2%

the Long 16th Century clocking in at 176 years, a new record (Bolivar Echeverría "La modernidad de lo barroco")

Someone should write a book about the ability to screenshot things being a turning point in 21st century societies.

my neighbor* once maintained to me that a man built this for his 10 children, giving each one an apartment on a different floor a decade ago I think I'd have immediately dismissed the story now I just think "yeah well, could be, possible..." *sometimes full of shit, sometimea not

Bram Stoker, The Secret of the Growing Gold

all the pretty gorses

line of clouds like an encoded message

roll on O mighty Churubusco

my childhood cinema was Channel 4 and BBC2, sometimes RTE1 where I saw "Seven Samurai," "Summer with Monika," "Kes," the whole lot cinemas came later

Some notes on English spelling reform from the cutting room floor: stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/t...

"Inspiration" (Karel Zeman, PL, 1949) beautiful animated short film the painstaking labour in every frame www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qY...

the daughter's haiku about the current Berlin weather: refrigerator refrigerator plus two refrigerator

Lee Friedlander, From the Series The Little Screens, 1962 - 1969

Limited edition of 150 copies available only from me directly or at St George's here in Berlin DM or email for more information

childhood is a chronic wound

Dr. Slop en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_...