30 years, still the right question.

"When I came down again Mrs Bannister was there. She was standing beside the car in the light from the house. Just to look at her took my breath away."

"You don't look at all like the noble defender of poor defenseless widows. But then again, I don't look like a poor defenseless widow."

CHOTINER: So you got two new books today? ME: Yeah, Patricia Lockwood and Sarah Gailey both had new releases. CHOTINER: And you’re going to read them right away? ME: Of course. CHOTINER: So all those other books I see on your shelf, you’ve finished those? ME: Ok can we back up a second

Found a photo that made me really sad - this vanished during one of my house moves - a very valuable and uncut sheet of Ed Wood cards.

The Cars Hiss By My Window

Placard from March on Washington “WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW”, August 28, 1963

"Vincenzo Barney is back."

On Kawara, I Got Up..., 1977 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137596

The Godfather of the Bride

A wild story - like a Charles Willeford novel come to life.

A really interesting piece about the writing life, the story form, the prize landscape, the challenge of the market for stories. Lots of generous callouts for peers as well.

R.I.P.

"It’s nostalgic... absurdly gripping and finally unpersuasive in that familiar McEwan way (you turn the pages hungrily, and then at the end you think: Hang on)." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Strongly recommend people read the fantastically odd and compelling novels of Marc Behm (well, the two that are available in English anyway - a crazy state of affairs).

"I know it was you"

My collection is neat and complete, and now I can read all of them in chronological order (by release date)

Under the volcano, over the volcano Wandering free, The consul of Quauhnahuac is he. Making good use of the drinks that he finds Drinks that make everyday people go blind. @backlisted.bsky.social @malcolmlowry.bsky.social

We need to find a way to divert troubled young men into cinephilia. No one who has logged 300+ films on letterboxd has ever assassinated anybody.

My guess youtu.be/yPPsSeDR_iI?...

Now, in the broader context of my adolescent development within the socio-spatial milieu of West Philadelphia—an urban environment where my recreational energies were overwhelmingly invested in basketball, often proximate to my immediate educational facility, and where the quotidian rhythms of play

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

Just knowing I annoy someone by improperly using possessive forms is it's own reward.

Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

"If you're going to kill someone, there has to be a reason, a valid motive, a need to avoid some greater harm. Or suppress some pain. Pain is the greater evil."

Man in Blue II https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/man-in-blue-ii-1954

"An anti-memoir is not really about the author – it’s more about the reader. The reader isn’t going to read these books and think to herself ‘Oh, this is a great narrative’. Rather, she’ll say ‘That’s something I’ve thought, too’, or ‘That’s how I feel’." fivebooks.com/best-books/a...

“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born.”

"The old stalker was a sullen, dirty man, crawling through the Zone inch by inch on his stomach, earning his keep. The new stalker is a tie-wearing dandy, somewhere a mile away from the Zone, a cigarette in his teeth, a cocktail by his elbow--sitting and watching the monitors. A salaried gentleman."

Flatley kaput

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity." William S. Burroughs This is about A.I.

Seems reasonable www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Stipe is explaining lyrics on Bluesky dot com

I’m doing font analysis

First watch: Cutter's Way (1981). Directed by Czech New Wave pioneer Ivan Passer, an early 80s neo noir set in Santa Barbara with at least one foot planted in the 70s. Part post-Vietnam downer flick, part crime thriller, part state-of-the-nation allegory, it's tonally bumpy but quite fascinating 1/4

Stop changing your profile picture. Choose one and stick with it for 25 years like a normal person

Just reading this, before you even manage to get to any of the novels listed, will start you on your way.