Chalecos Salvavidas
@chalecos.bsky.social
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Promiscuous Reader | Shade Grown | Tonsure Enthusiast | Haikus Made From Whatever I’m Reading
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OVERHEARD DEPT:
#OverheardInNYC
I can run, but my feet hurt.
8 months ago
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LIBRARY DEPT: I love libraries! Recently, in Chelsea, NY, a duck library has materialized! The premise is simple: GIVE A 🦆 TAKE A 🦆 Support your local library!
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"…mildly erotic with its curvaceous plaster walls." -Michael Kimmelman on the renovation of The Frick
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a...
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The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation
The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/arts/design/frick-collection-reopening.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
7 months ago
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QUOTES DEPT: "A thousand of my father’s most subtle syllogisms could not have said more for celibacy." -L. Sterne, Shandy
8 months ago
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READING DEPT: Elias Canetti In bed with some light reading.
8 months ago
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READING AND WRITING DEPT: You have to put in the 10,000 hours. Garner told The Paris Review: “The diaries are how I turned myself into a writer — there’s my 10,000 hours.” -from Helen Garner’s diaries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
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‘My 10,000 Hours’: The Diaries That Made Helen Garner a Writer
“How to End a Story” collects three volumes of the Australian novelist’s self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/books/review/helen-garner-how-to-end-a-story.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
8 months ago
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@slotkin.senate.gov
: you need to say “SPENDING IS GOOD, AND HERE’S WHY: FREE EDUCATION FOR EVERYBODY, HEALTHCARE, SCIENCE FOR THE FARMERS AND THE REST OF US, WHATEVER!" Own why democrats can govern, goddammit!
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8 months ago
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Nice to see Leonard Cohen remaining culturally relevant. A character in the red-glasses skit on SNL: "I once went down on Leonard cohen."
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8 months ago
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MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN EMOJIS DEPT: Type in Emoji Kitchen into the google browser and mix and match emojis. Because it’s things like this that really matter right now.
9 months ago
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MY CELEBRITY AUTOBIO DEPT: Chow Yun Fat at a screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled, Divine on a NYC street. Asked for an autograph and got one. He was divine! Jerome Hellman, ditto autograph. Got a wave back from Tom Hiddleston on a NYC sidewalk.
9 months ago
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PARAPHRASE DEPT: Hamlet "There is more philosophy in fiction, dear reader, than are dreamt of in philosophy."
10 months ago
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AMERICAN DYSTOPIA DEPT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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10 months ago
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10 months ago
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html
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READING DEPT: PROUST I have decided to begin reading Proust again this year, and this time finish it. The elegant Penguin Modern Classics paperback editions, from the UK are expected to arrive on February 12. I am intimidated and excited in equal measure. I hope to recapture my focus.
10 months ago
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AI SNAFU DEPT: "Journalism" Fail The HAL 9000 is just running the show now, so STFU.
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11 months ago
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TEXT-SPAM DEPT: "Is there still room for improvement in the proposal we discussed last time?"
12 months ago
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Thanksgiving day mood.
12 months ago
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WIKIPEDIA LITERARY LIVES: John D. Macdonald, Weight Loss: "Following his 1945 discharge from the army, MacDonald spent four months writing short stories, generating some 800,000 words and losing 20 pounds (9.1 kg) while typing 14 hours a day, seven days a week."
12 months ago
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READING & BOOKS DEPT: Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it has this in it: J. G. Ballard and Bob Dylan traveling together to a Richard prince exhibit. My heart is full. I am done. Nothing can top this.
about 1 year ago
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T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT: I’m too sober for this.
about 1 year ago
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MUST WATCH DEPT: Mr. K • 2024 Dir: Tallulah H. Schwab A little bit of Kafka, a little bit of Walser. Looks like my kind of cinematic recipe.
about 1 year ago
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"…a vase in a window, a blip on the radio, a misplaced brick in a wall." -The New Yorker, page 36, Sept. 16, 2024
about 1 year ago
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READING DEPT: WARHOL, PHILOSOPHY A whole day of life is like a whole day of television. -p. 5 You can do so much more with a chair than you can with a painting. -p. 6
over 1 year ago
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EPIGRAPH DEPT: Janet Malcom’s Reading Chekhov, A Critical Journey "What torture it is to cut the nails on your right hand!" -Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper, October 30, 1903
over 1 year ago
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DREAM DEPT: I’m in line to check my luggage and get my boarding pass at the airport, with my dog, which in the dream is the wrong breed, when I suddenly realize I left my passport at home.
over 1 year ago
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"There were some things, some anger or passion that was beyond my understanding and had been tamped down for too long." -Diane Williams, from the Oct. 2, 2018 NY Times profile Once you read her your mind will order speech into her cadences.
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/b...
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Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book (Published 2018)
The 72-year-old avant-garde writer and editor will publish a career-spanning collection this month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/books/diane-williams-collected-stories-short-story.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
over 1 year ago
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OVERHEARD DEPT:
#OverheardInNYC
Well, my list of things to do is, I got work at the top and then a chick I gotta work out and then I have to pack my place.
over 1 year ago
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EVERYBODY IN NYC RIGHT NOW: Did you feel the earthquake? ME: I have no feelings.
over 1 year ago
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Photos that look like they’re from a Beckett play. Credit: Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
almost 2 years ago
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My mood, most of the time.
about 2 years ago
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#AdviceCorner
about 2 years ago
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So many song lines I did not know.
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about 2 years ago
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Stanley warned us. We’ve seen this movie.
about 2 years ago
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"Tengo que get el fuck out of aqui…" -Best use of Spanglish, ever, anywhere by a not-native Spanish speaker: Thomas Pynchon, 'Against the Day' 2006.
about 2 years ago
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FAVORITE ARTISTS: Nic Nicosia Real Pictures #11, gelatin silver print, 1988, Honolulu Museum of Art
about 2 years ago
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Get all your reading recs from
@pabstblueribbon.bsky.social
They know whereof they speak, and they like the weird. Keep it weird!
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about 2 years ago
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I am not a person with a complicated fate.
about 2 years ago
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ROOMS: "Everyone carries a room about inside him." ― Franz Kafka, 'Blue Octavo Notebooks'
about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
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"Odd fog patch in the south." -Foreign weather report
over 2 years ago
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"More and more in my films, I’m trying to suppress what people call plot. Plot is for novelists." -Robert Bresson, on the eve of beginning production on ‘Pickpocket', a film he wanted to be about "hands, objects, and glances."
over 2 years ago
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Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey!
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over 2 years ago
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New York City people.
over 2 years ago
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J’refuse!
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over 2 years ago
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weedy little customer ended up back down some hole early in his life #PynchonHaiku #AgainstTheDay #Reading #ThomasPynchon #Haiku
over 2 years ago
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