I'm delighted to tell those of you who expressed interest that @sightsoundmag.bsky.social has put my cover story "The Marilyn Moment: Monroe at 100" online in its entirety. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

Is there any organizing around the trans youth departments at the NYC public hospitals?

It seems notable to mention that for the last few evenings I haven't turned on the TV at all, in favor of reading my books. My attention span, that I'd despaired of, is still there; I've got 4 books on the go, not counting audios. Nowhere to go, no one I need to see today, another reading one.

#nowreading. #booksky

😂 BTW, happy pride month!

Check out my March reading

Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜

"This sort of outrage," snapped Father Parakeet of St Joeys Of The Immaculate Plumage, "is why we do not take the Guardian in this Presbytery."

🏳️‍🌈some special Pride Month shout-outs to a few of my favorite categories of LGBTQIAs🏳️‍🌈 1. to everyone for whom this is your first out Pride: congratulations, we love you, we are so proud!!!! by law you should not have to pay for drinks all month. try this on your straight friends, they might buy it

Herald Square from the El, New York, 1936, by Alfred S. Mira.

#booksky I'm excited to see this new edition of a Joseph Mitchell book with new illustrations.

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

The lair of the robber baron.

Sarah Bernhardt peonies.

At Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island

Lovely & loving appreciation of one of my favorite writers by another. #booksky

Changing my bio to ‘Raconteur of things’

Rosemary Williams drinking coffee — Stanley Kubrick, 1949

Best pop record with emphasis on "best" is "Good Vibrations" Best with emphasis on "pop" is "Sugar Sugar" Best with emphasis on "record" is "Paperback Writer" (mono mix only).

Look at this beautiful piece.

Chapter 4 of my #Spirk fic, Curiouser & Curiouser, is now up. They bond in this one, kids.

Chapter 4 of my #Spirk fic, Curiouser & Curiouser, is now up. They bond in this one, kids.

Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you. Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them.

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

Wonderful interplay of patterned textiles (& little musical scrolls) in this Coronation of the Virgin, 1420, by Gentile da Fabriano. Today was his day.

Quaratesi Altarpiece, c. 1425, by Gentile da Fabriano. Alas its glorious frame is lost, but the pieces are still pretty great!

Guess I was more tired from my long weekend of birthday 'hard partying'. Got a COVID booster yesterday which may have also contributed to afternoon nap followed by headache, early to bed with edibles which I haven't used in months, & staying there until almost noon this am. Being totally lazy today

Sadly damaged frescoes in Hall of the Liberal Arts & Planets, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno. Must have been amazing when Gentile da Fabriano first painted them! Today is his day.

THIS. Life has never not been precarious, but in my lifetime the changes to 'just how things are' have mostly been to make this conditional, precarious, uncertain.

Monday I went to Brooklyn for ..: reasons (pic 1) & yesterday when at Union Sq getting my senior discount for subway, a guy was selling #LPs on the sidewalk (pic 2).

As a kid, half the fun of reading old books was getting glimpses of how things once were and building a (sometimes spectacularly mistaken) model of the past, like reconstructing an entire dinosaur from a fossilized tooth. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

Wishing a joyful & reflective Eid al-Adha for all those observing. Let this be a time of solidarity with community & celebration with loved ones. May it also bring hope for a more just, more peaceful world. Eid Mubarak!

Had to move my birthday balloon into the bedroom because Zeesa decided yesterday that it's a ginormous threatening ectoplasm wanting to engulph her, & barked & growled at it all yesterday and again now this am. When I go to bed I'll move it back into the living room.

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

2/2 What a great expression on face of this alderman of city of Paris. Want to meet him! (maybe I did.) Painted by Philippe de Champaigne, whose day was today.

Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, Duchesse d'Aiguillon, in a dress that is in all ways fantastic, & also A+ small dog. No wonder she looks rather pleased! Painted by Philippe de Champaigne.

Vibe Check: Watching: Dust Bunny; For All Mankind; Euphoria Reading: Michelle de Kretser; Iain Sinclair Listening: Colin Blunstone; ESG; PP Arnold

Had to move my birthday balloon into the bedroom because Zeesa decided yesterday that it's a ginormous threatening ectoplasm wanting to engulph her, & barked & growled at it all yesterday and again now this am. When I go to bed I'll move it back into the living room.

Cis friends: declaring that you stand with trans and nonbinary people, that you will defend us in public and in private and won't tolerate our abuse or dehumanization from other cis people, makes more of a difference than you think it does. A lot of people will follow the crowd.

Escape from London's heat by finding a rural spot in the city - under the trees in ancient woodlands, cemeteries and nature reserves. To find one nearby, please visit my website.

So, those trendy little gold cushions with that reversible material you can write on with your fingers have arrived in Glasgow.

"Have started writing a memoir of this famous day, cooling down in a loincloth I've made from frozen peas. John, Bury."

"How do you know my name"

Among the many other riches in the latest Beat Books catalogue, this photo (already sold) by Graham Keen of Peter & Jane Asher stocking the shelves of Indica in January 1966. Graham provided several Floyd photos for AVIH and has a fantastic archive. More info in the alt-text

Robert Crumb's 1967 "calling card" for his poster services, all the bands - Fess Williams, Butterbeans, Peg Leg Howell & His Gang etc. - are invented for display purposes only.

'Miss Beatnik' contestants, Venice Beach, LA, 1959