an aphorism by Nietzsche: "In parting. --- Not how one soul comes close to another but how it moves away shows me their kinship and how much they belong together."

all I'm saying is there's jazz out there that is punk af

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

I love being out this late now maybe I'll get high and eat a sandwich

uh oh, pink pony club cover

there are 7 people in this new band which means about half the bar just got up on stage

there are like 15 people in this bar and the band just gave away dvds of the three Lord of the Rings films (to different people so 1/5 of us are winners) and promised to sign them this is hilarious to me

like be real with me or not at all

this band is playing a song called "can I be real with you" and yes

I come from the land of delicatessens and being in this deli is filling me with nostalgia... my first apartment on my own was a block away from Conrad's deli and while I didn't know Conrad himself I do know he made the best pimento cheese and macaroni salad

What am I doing?

Sarah Schulman on hopelessness: "nothing is more dangerous than doing nothing" @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/31879...

I don't think it counts as fall when the temps are over 75⁰ that's just more summer

maybe it was a mistake to recommend reading Emma Goldman to someone bc I just spent the whole night dreaming that I was teaching a class on Goldman and anarchism and the relationship to Marxism now I'm exhausted and missing my old gig on the plus side, I can still teach Emma Goldman in my sleep :)

I don't know why but it was like he really believed that dancing would solve everything that's wrong with the world and that seemed innocently sweet to me

we were standing on the sidewalk outside the bar talking about sad stuff. he shrugged with a half smile and said, let's go dance

kinda drunk at Aldi's

"Give me cornbread when I'm hungry, good people; Corn whiskey when I'm dry..."

wild dreams tonight

sweet baby jesus there are some achingly sad songs on here

I want lasagna

writing another letter of recommendation... I know why I say "yes" but still at least there's new music to sustain me music.apple.com/us/album/twi...

gonna start saying I'm pre-employed like I'm manifesting a paycheck

I didn't stay for Cornbread last Sunday at Palmer's bc it just felt too sad and final. I wanted to leave that place with a sense of "next time" now is next time

can't make it to Farm Aid 40? you can watch live on YouTube Jesse Wells finishing up right now www.youtube.com/live/CJbXWbd...

over here googling MFA programs like I've got going-back-to-school money

I love how former students, years out of college, will message me to tell me they're thinking of me usually prompted by an encounter with Arendt's life and writing

my teaching evaluations make me sound so amazing I want to just upload them into a dating app

would canceling my subscription to the NYT still have any illocutionary force even if the Spelling Bee editor doesn't recognize illocution as a word?

so who all is gonna dress up like Palmer's man for Halloween?

I'm on the hunt for a job and every week my cousin tells me to come home where she can get me a teaching gig in a hot east coast minute. I don't really want to go back but dang

I keep thinking I'm ready for a change of season bc I'm so done with the noise of chainsaws, drills, mowers, etc but then I realize that leaf and snow-blowers are just waiting in the wings

boy, all the smoke really added an extra bit of nostalgia to the Palmer's send-off

still here. still time to c'mon over and get 86’ed if that's your thing

Jack Klatt honoring Spider John at Palmer's

The Silent Treatment "release the files" @palmersman.bsky.social

Los Pinches Güeys "everyone is 86'ed!" @palmersman.bsky.social

The Union Suits "we wasted a lot of years of our lives here" oh, but not wasted @palmersman.bsky.social

Doug Collins & the Receptionists "tip heavily m*therf*ckers" well said @palmersman.bsky.social

Big Trouble House introduced themselves saying: "we're from the 1980s" same could be said for a lotta folks here @palmersman.bsky.social

Dingus with an apt sentiment: "you'll be sorry when I'm gone" @palmersman.bsky.social

Jeffrey Robert Larson (and brother) says we gotta drink it dry @palmersman.bsky.social

Baby Grant Johnson honoring Spider John at Palmer's

so it ends, so it begins Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs at Palmer's @palmersman.bsky.social

ok this is definitely the earliest I've ever gone to Palmer's

I wanted to spend all day at Palmer's today but remembered I told a student I'd write a letter of recommendation for him

first Whiskey Wednesday at White Squirrel with Cole Diamond band won't be the last

uh... why not??? #nerdnight

hey, nerds! we ride at dawn! I mean right now! c'mon out to Black Hart

c'mon now where are those wet leg pics?