Reading Alan Fyfe's rollicking 'The Cross Thieves' and he refers to May Wirth, the trickrider. She must have been something to see.

i keep practicing singing at the most elementary level, pitch-matching & simple scales, trying to improve. i’m still not very good but it is somewhat rewarding even while still mostly sucking

Smollett: Guys, I've cracked the code for writing dialogue about technical stuff: you just copy the bit you need from non-fiction, et voila!

Olivier Chapuis

angry & bewildered abt Govt of Canada's plan for hamstringing itself thru these proposed austerity measures. in the name of National Defence

Wrote about "Randy Walters Is A Son Of A Bitch" by Afroman

astray in darkling woods midway thru this life? funny you ask, i likely am

« [Ahab] told himself that a human life has a limited number of motives, coitus and escape being among them » Pierre Senges, ‘Ahab (Sequels)’, pp. 159

So, every small unfolding happening here is enough

get in loser, we’re reading Stanyhurst’s 1582 Æneid

Apparently you can pre-order? (Thank you @alilleybrinker.com for pointing this out!) Just be sure not to read it ha ha ha? yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

“For now seven summers are spent, since thy travel hardy On land and sailing, like pilgrim, caused thee to wander.” Stanyhurst, end of bk 1, modernized spelling

“Thee world shal be quiet, then shal broyls bluddye be finnisht.” Richard Stanyhurst in his infamous pseudo-archaic 1582 translation of the Æneid, books I-IV

we imitate nature, which is changeable

march 17? for a middle aged person like me that's basically april

Reading a book about the North Pole has led me to this truly incredible 1577 portrait of Martin Frobisher

”Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print“ by @katiesisneros, on the interplay of repetition, context + meaning in woodcuts and the parallels to meme culture of today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

more to the substance of the book, it’s always awkward when the person you’re trying to assassinate just won’t die & you just keep killing them but they still won’t die

this recent album by Toni Geitani is sublime & has been blowing me away. arabic vocal melodies & harmonies in a context of dense mutilated electronic textures. amazing vox performance

reading this Juan Benet novella in FR translation for no good reason. bought it years ago, don’t know where i would have found it. sometimes i just read books now! it’s pretty good, kind of a nouveau roman vibe (ballpark of c. simon, pinget, or robbe-grillet)

My book, Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction, is now available: readexperience.net/2026/03/16/g... (If you could repost this so it might get as wide a distribution as possible, I would much appreciate it.)

This week Tone Glow is doing a five part series of interviews with the four members of the Guitar Quartet (individually & together) in advance of my residency at Roulette. First up, ME. toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

Stranded @ JFK airport, so overnight I wrote and recorded an absolutely insane noise album. Documented events include: • salad • the custodian named Hugo cleaning the floors • Delta's AI helpline • a baby This is real and it's real weird. Maybe you'll dig it. anaerobic.bandcamp.com/album/terminal

Cam 1 shows this perfectly, with the intense orange fountain of lava blasted upward, behind mostly solidified chunks raining down from the sky right in front of the camera. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

today at 2 pm USA eastern time

« It had been an outing of only two hours… » epic passage in Proust’s Le Temps retrouvé in which he compares his lassitude to that of travelers on the Caspian Sea suffering from seasickness who would not even resist if told they were going to be tossed overboard

Your context-free comic book panel of the day.

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Pardon me for being crude I was but dreaming on the rood

Finally watching “2001: A Space Odyssey” the way Kubrick intended it to be seen: from a VHS tape patched through an analog waveform monitor.

ottawa’s public transport situation is dismal. anyone who uses it regularly or who has read of its famous dysfunction knows this already

bluesky has the juice (prune juice)

not the onion? not the onion

bluesky has the juice (prune juice)

the ice-glazed garden an hr after sunrise

there she blows

a shameful response from Canada’s PM in the face of DJT’s invasion of Iran. 11 days ago

“I have alighted on the idea that the head might very well be reckoned among the pudendis, that it is regarded as one of nature's satires on human beings; that it might be kept completely covered if the organs of sense implanted in it permitted this.” Ludwig Tieck, Peter Lebrecht, tr. D. Robertson

we detected your information on the dork web

a Simpsons bar

tiny girl in the supermarket just now: "Je veux le chocolat de Mister Beast ! Je veux le chocolat de Mister Beast !"

this Sunday ~ 3/15 ~ 2 pm EDT (note the daylight savings time change)/19h CET ~ March’s A Mile Long Drawing is two hours of the music of Éliane Radigue (RIP 🖤) ~ from the first sounds I ever heard from her (Trilogie de la Mort) to the late Occam era ~ join me on @campradio.bsky.social

Under EU law, after enjoying a piece of music, you are entitled to a 14 day “cooling off” period during which you can decide that you didn’t enjoy the music.

the other day i quoted pascal’s « vous êtes embarqué » to my wife like the geezer that i am embarked towards becoming

Reflections : Carnation / Répétitions

makes you think, that Werner

yesterday i did a double take when i realized Canada prefers the spelling "enrol" over "enroll". frankly, an insane orthographic choice if you ask me. (and yet, see: "extol")

« Come on please »

The next 33 1/3 open call for proposals is open! If you’re a 33 1/3 fan, a writer, or simply a passionate music lover, now is your chance to submit your favorite album to the series. Deadline is May 5th 2026, 11:59 PM EST. Full submission guidelines: https://bit.ly/41698ZE