27° | Feels like… your dick is gonna freeze off. #honestweather

Pick up the nearest book and chunk it as hard as you can at someone who voted for this.

A substack piece on a citation returning to one's mind after decades, the topography of my fascination with Roberto Arlt and the difficulty of writing about a topos one has been cut off from, remembering the host of a Triestine osteria. Disparate notes: giulianovivaldi1.substack.com/p/let-the-eu...

“Instead of the monumental ‘Who Am I,’ Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to outrun.” Easily one of the most pleasurable reads in quite a while.

Fuckers on the local news advising us to grind our coffee beans tonight bc the Texas grid is notoriously unreliable when wet.

Think I might try a little yearning this year. I'll let you know how it turns out.

I’m going to tell the kids that this is Heated Rivalry.

“Who is this bitch saying ‘thesises’?”—me listening to a podcast.

Had to drive 40 mins east to renew my drivers license bc 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕𝕠 only to be asked, “How long have you lived in Texas?” bc “no accent.” Never change, east Texas. I never want to feel welcomed by you.

Submit to your own villainy.

The turn-it-off-and-turn-it-back-on-again rule proves that technology is very much the toddler who needs to be forced to take a nap.

“To think freely is already a revolutionary act.”Joseph Beuys

Y’all pray for me & @geoliminal.bsky.social: massive winter storm set to hit over the weekend, and our piece of shit senator was seen fleeing the state, so you know it’s gonna be bad.

Nearing the end of his life, Joseph Beuys’ message in 1985 seemed more urgent not asking as often what makes an artist but rather why so many weren’t engaged in meaningful societal change. It’s made me introspective. Taking harder paths can lead to smoother roads. I need to toughen up my soles.

"The emperor's new clothes" remains undefeated as an explanatory framework

Woke up at 4:30 this morning from a disturbing dream: Ilya and Shane were staying at Jacques Renault’s cabin and, while listening to Julee Cruise records, baked brownies with lemon glaze.

„Riga’s stairwells teach a small but important courtesy: your private life travels. The sound of your day seeps through plaster, under doors, into lives you never see. To live well in this kind of city is to carry that awareness with you when you close your own door.”

This should be a great course for anyone wanting guidance through a bit of (late) Heidegger.

Ex 1: Whittled an essay from 12 pp to 5 in order to get it in a publishable state. Ex 2: Cut a 2500-word story down to 800 words to get it in a publishable state. I just need to write less since I end up cutting so much anyway. Related tho: essay took 5 years; started the story in 2011.

it's nuts that the best poe biography remains quinn's 1941 one. just a really tragically understudied writer, despite his outsized influence

Today is the anniversary of Jan Palach’s death. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/augury-o...

The United States has always been excessively violent and practically unlivable, but every now and then I do find myself missing basic professional competence.

Another Twin Peaks Sunday evening at Texas Theatre.

Hung out with this fucker today. Weird to see for the first time in person someone that I lectured on for 8 years. He acted like he didn’t know me. Reminded me of those writers whose careers I helped all those times only to be treated like shit by then.

Jon Stewart is the Oprah of stupid takes.

If I’ve learned anything from watching Heated Rivalry, it’s that every time an athlete gets in a fight it’s because of his secret queer sex life.

Every time I get close to thinking that I should donate to Liberal Currents they publish some garbage by McManus that makes me want to block them altogether.

Works by Andy Warhol feature in a new exhibition in Poland dedicated to the art of the Rusyns, an ethnic group from a region that today lies around the borders between Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania. Warhol’s parents were Rusyns who emigrated to the United States.

This was one of those slow-burn books that continues to captivate months after reading. I’m not even sure it was real and probably should read it again just to make sure.

“miracles of darkness”

Nothing hits quite like “50th Anniversary limited edition 12" vinyl of Roxy Music’s 'Love Is the Drug.'”

S: Well that wasn’t terrible. F: But it was terrible adjacent. Us watching Episode 1 of Heated Rivalry.

Today I heard somebody say “this is not 1930s Germany, honey, that comparison lets white people cosplay bravery that y’all ain’t earned yet. This is Jim Crow America with better cameras, this is slave catching with apps.”

ᴇʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇꜰᴏʀᴍ.

Primary Information is having their winter flash sale now for the next 24 hours. Great prices on incredible art books, including the Paul Thek and Peter Hujar book Stay Away From Nothing for $12: primaryinformation.org

Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him! (Dawn from my front porch with a sliver of moon.)

All is bartered, betrayed and bereaved / The black wing of death quivered near / All is torn by a terrible grieving / So how can this radiance appear? (Sunrise from my front step.)

Outstanding introduction to the ever exquisite Käthe Kollwitz.

“…the spectacle is always dubious.” Suck it, Guy.

It is perfectly acceptable and morally correct to crash & spam this fucking site as often as possible: www.studentsfirst.texas.gov/ombudsman-co.... Be sure to use a vpn.

Agree or Disagree?

Learn Ukrainian.

One of my favorite Tumblr accounts is Goths Up Trees, but maybe there’s room for a Victorian Goths Up Trees sub-account. Though points would be deducted for smiling.

Dallas City Hall by I.M. Pei, video by Quin Mathiews (about 8 minutes)

Best thing about it is that it's a review of the Phaedrus.

Finally a war cheered on by both a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a FIFA Peace Prize laureate. #warispeace #bonespursforpeace

it is time to undue to mistake that was the reconquista and usher in a second al-Andalus #Deconquista

As someone who learned Polish in the 1990s and who regularly works with pre-1936 texts, I now have 3 ways to “correctly” spell several words in Polish. #luckyme Gonna raise my translation fee, though…

Why just hold their feet to the fire when you can chuck in the whole leg?

First eight hours of the new year is always spent updating my kill list.