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Henri Matisse, Goldfish and Palette, Paris, quai Saint-Michel, late November 1914-spring 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135558

very funny stuff around proposed caps on food prices. the damage is already done, b/c there's no way prices are coming down again. but even that's too much for supermarkets

this is what 2026 is like

financial begging email from an online magazine who accepted one of my poems more than a year ago & still haven't published it lol

on Ian Penman's 'Erik Satie Three Piece Suite' utopiadeferred.substack.com/p/the-bronze...

I took boat again, it being cold, and I sweating, with my walk, which was very pleasant along the green corne and pease, and most of the way sang, he and I, and eat some cold meat we had, and with great pleasure home.

the simpler & even less likely solution is to force the US to end the war on Iran lol

on Ian Penman's 'Erik Satie Three Piece Suite' utopiadeferred.substack.com/p/the-bronze...

the G in AG Cook stands for "gender"

17th century call-in to Stavvy's World

so so good ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/play-m...

so so good ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/play-m...

not going to watch or comment on the Michael Jackson biopic, just going to note the one white glove here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lgf...

honestly it's just depressing to read. it's a shitty situation but she's clearly so enamoured of the sense of virtue she gets from her suffering. might not finish

posted up

pretty good www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwTG...

pretty good www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwTG...

P**p & Pee 15

looked at some of my old school exercise books a while ago & the red-pen marking of "you have to try harder Daniel" & "this is a poor effort for an hour's work" brought back so much rage & shame lol

making yet another attempt at learning French & the way Duolingo deliberately punishes you for making mistakes is really triggering lol

that's right

Sounds Front Cover featuring Alison Statton of the Young Marble Giants pic by Paul Slattery in Sounds 17th, May 1980.

sincerely thought this was a bit for at least a minute

we should bring back advertising claims that beer is nourishing & health-giving. it certainly feels true

my own favourite Satie recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyB...

OK 25 pages in. he sounds like a pretentious loser but she comes across as completely unbearable. hetero marriage fission reactor

perils of an open relationship

John Centaurman

Chris Nolan spotted outside Spago reading Black Athena

Chris Nolan spotted outside Spago reading Black Athena

Home, where I found it almost night, and my wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but talking. Now so deadly full of jealousy I am that my heart and head did so cast about and fret that I could not do any business possibly.

only 10 pages into this & can already tell this will annoy me all the way through www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

get back to England & immediately have to take a rail replacement bus

Discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell, who was sweeping of it; who told me of what the earth is mixed that do floor the Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and spread to keep it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and deads the ball.

何も考えてない時の顔。がんぼるぞい。 translation: The face I make when I'm not thinking about anything.

Mallorcan Gothic panels

Miro museum

one of the central contentions of Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite is that there's a light, ironic tradition of modernism that's undervalued. wh/ seems to me just completely wrong? idk

van nuys drive-in theater, roscoe boulevard, van nuys, california, 1981

meanwhile, on threads…

on the beach w/ a boombox playing 'Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim' (1967)

one in an occasional series: these are delectable www.fritravich.com/productos/ch...

managed democracy

Prominent Novelist I knew at Warwick blurbing the new Lerner, she includes 3 big adverbs in 4 lines

you gotta feel for the music critics. spend 15 years writing about how despite it all beyonce and taylor swift actually are putting out the best music of the era. and then after you get laid off they laugh about how much you loved animal collective