My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

all eyes on Uta! substack.com/@medievalmar...

Really enjoying this. Here's that little kid again; my #sundaysentence: "He had his mother's bulging eyes, and, not knowing where he had permission to direct them, his gaze was fleeting, tortured, terrified, and defeated, even when she wasn't near."

I fucking love the French. A character’s 5-year-old son described with no more than he “had a vaguely American first name.” This in chapter one; it will be very hard to not smoke while reading this novel.

This was a fun read by @carolinebicks.bsky.social for those of us who soaked in cocaine-era King at a ridiculously young age & then went on to be writers ourselves. (Turns out, that's a pretty big cohort.) My #sundaysentence this week is my favorite King line: "Sometimes, Louis, dead is better."

I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.

If you’re in London, go spend a day with my super smart and altogether amazing daughter!

People occasionally ask me where I get my stupid ideas, and I think, 'um, same f*cking place as everyone else, from a ghost that lives in the chimney'.

This was a really fantastic & unique book, as much Dan's memoir & a history of Burlington as it is Bernie bio, and Dan's parts are among the most interesting (& felt very close to me). My #sundaysentence: "Though my tense home quieted me, it made me an observer."

I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table and shout that The Detectorists (2014-22) is one of the best TV shows of the 21st century.

fickle, false, and full of fraud

Well, the water is cold but I been in Baby, lose the laundry and jump on in I mean, all God’s children got skin And it’s summer again

My #sundaysentence this week is from the always sublime @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social & her beautifully crafted memoir that I waited far too long to read. "Now that I'm old, I know that my ear is tuned in to the universe, but maybe I can only hear songs in a minor key." (Why did I wait? Silly fear.)

Have you perus’d the letters from the Pope

What a great book! One #sundaysentence each for Prine's Mom & Dad. For how his Dad taught him to always order 2 beers at a time: "One to drink, and one to hit the guy over the head when he comes for you." And for his Mom: "She didn't have to look at a newspaper to know what's going on in the world."

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live; the try to pin me down edition CSN(w/ & w/out Y) James Taylor Michael Hedges Ani DiFranco The Pretenders Blue Oyster Cult Grateful Dead Paul McCartney John Gorka The Story

I don't care if you found it for free: do not dredge up AI-based mulch and drag it home to your rosebeds. You don't know what kinds of pathogens it carries.

too many people in senior government positions remind me of Jean-Ralphio and Mona-Lisa Saperstein

All I wanted 1989-99 was a serviceable pair of Chucks and to make an album for Rounder. This book (by @dmenconi.bsky.social) is a gem. My #sundaysentence this week concerns their 1st HQ, which was a 2nd-floor apartment: "Their downstairs neighbor was hard of hearing, which helped keep the peace."

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

My #sundaysentence this week: "As he sometimes said with a sigh, his skills were many, useful, and entertaining, but not the sort to attract financial reward." [Not sure how I got through life to date without reading Lisa Tuttle; thanks @medievalmarginalia.com for pushing this on me in Edinburgh.]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

This is the way

From their lips...

My #sundaysentence for this week: "When he was weak like this -- in a crowd of taller men, nervously twisting a sheaf of papers, feeling his authority undercut by their superior height -- that was when she loved him best."

summer is icumen in!

thou furnace of foul reeking smoke!

DG in the NYT gave this a pretty piss-poor review. I love DG and i respect the NYT generally, but…fuck all that, this is a really wonderful novel.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

This novel was disappointingly…thin. Still, a #sundaysentence: “The giver wishes the taker would stop.” (Posting early due to early travel on sunday)

He’s a disease that must be cut away.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.

YAY VIRGINIA!!!

Not like her 1st book, this one was just petty. I live in this town, know some of these people, but i think i would have felt that way regardless. But… a #sundaysentence: “To believe the things we believe about our families is to be able to declare about ourselves the things we wish to be true.”

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

I love not using AI. I love looking at art made by human beings, sculpting kaleidoscopic mushrooms out of clay, learning a new skill from a real person, playing with cats, spotting bats silhouetted in a crepuscular sky. Not using AI is very fun.

My #sundaysentence this week relates to the dangers found on the road to Galicia: "One French guidebook of the early twelfth century issued grave warnings of the loose morals of the people who dwelled there, such as Navarrese farmers 'who practice unclean fornication' with their mules and mares."

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

my heroes also: i learned that edinburgh used to have the nickname Auld Reekie and going forth i will only be answering to that, thank you

Come on then, and remove him.

No ma’am, not an emergency, it’s your advice I need

he is risen & the eggs await their doom kentishtown, london 7am

If you don’t have your French-Canadian IGA grocery bag at the Philadelphia airport are you even going to London???

Less “Hustle culture." More “Casually perusing quaint bookstores on cobblestone streets in Edinburgh" culture.

good morning new hope pa wednesday

I love Kelly Braffet, and this second in the series was even better than The Unwilling. I hope she does a third. My #sundaysentence this week: "Korsa tried to parse how anyone could know that a child needed to be taken care of and not -- take care of them."

Along with a heart-healthy diet, 30 minutes of enemy smiting each day reduces your risk of stroke by 90%.

advice for the 14th c housewife - read all about it! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended