Thievery Corporation is a bit on the fringe of my music taste. Seeing them live last night was astounding and energizing. I felt like I was on a galactic space cruise.

I have become a flannel sheets convert. It took a couple nights, but I'm all in.

Oh, this conversation is so much fun, and I want this book yesterday.

A great book every day, but especially on World AIDS Day, is The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.

Catalogued my burgeoning vinyl collection on Discogs this morning!

Rufus loves the snow.

Finished reading Flesh this morning! It’s sparse but also rather tender. It’s not gonna land for everyone, but I found it—more often than not—engaging.

Sunday plans: Nonchaloire (Repose), John Singer Sargent, 1911.

Made this Gobble Goblin. His name is Derryk and he works in HR. He collects oven mitts and is learning latte art. Watercolor pencil and ink.

lol sign worked

Some recent-ish collage work:

It’s Anton’s birthday tomorrow.

Just got my order in for the weekend NYRB sale! (Don't mind my unread NYRBs from sales of yore...)

I can never resist the big NYRB sale.

This is some next-level American Folk Horror to rival the Wickerman and anything the English could come up with.

WHO MADE THIS FLORENCE LAPUGHPUGH omg

Autumn garden under your feet in a late 19th c/early 20th c Persian-Bahktiari hand-knotted wool and cotton runner #art #antique #antiqueart #vintagecarpet #antiques #langtrygallery #antiquecarpet #bahktiari #persianrug #classicdecor #homedecor #artforyourhome #interior #design #antiquario #arte

Ah, it’s yet another wonderful new music Friday! Orville Peck, Austra, FKA Twigs, new singles by New Division and Magdalena Bay. I’m sure there are others I’m missing.

It was this time last year that I was wholly distracted from pressing project deadlines by making this ragtag troupe. Currently resisting the pull to add new recruites...

Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚

Eager to read Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers, which I just found at Next Chapter Books in St. Paul. But there’s also this promising library stack…

Rotting now happening (finally). I hope I don’t regret this late afternoon nap.

All I want to do today is luxuriously rot in bed. But I don’t think that’s in the cards. 😫

Northern Lights in Lanesboro, MN

Happy Friday, jollies!

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Freshly laundered, new Pendleton cotton flannel sheets are calling my name for bed this evening.

My work inbox is at 4. Please clap!

Closing King Lear this afternoon. What an honor and true joy to swim in the intrigue, travel through Edmund’s rapid rise (and doom), and speak some stunning language.

The Prince of Darkness.

I have @jacquiwine.bsky.social to thank for recommending this astonishing novel by Dorothy B. Hughes: a gripping narrative about a man in the frame for murder that that is ultimately an indictment of America itself. If you haven’t read it, do – but don’t read any more about it before going in…

🚨New Orville Peck EP will drop in a couple weeks!🚨

This new Depche Mode film was sublime—saw it on an IMAX screen last night!

Morning, dewdrops!

Just going to throw this out there: memorizing poetry is a worthwhile activity! It allows you to internalize examples of carefully constructed and musical language. The possession of these fragments can (indirectly) make it possible for you to express yourself more precisely and beautifully.

One of the most essential skillsets in the age of individual "creators" (hate the term--creators is too nebulous and undersells what people do) and AI slop will be CURATION. Let me explain my train of thought... 🚂🧵

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Of course, the very second I sit down to do some narration recording, a mower or leaf blower begins sonically polluting my environment.

Awww yeah, I just got tickets for The Last Dinner Party!

🎶 oh potatoes and molasses 🎶

One of Us by Dan Chaon is a wild time! Wondrous and gruesome. I squirmed a bit. It’s vivid and visceral and I loved it. Highly recommended.

It’s a Björk morning.

So much new music today! Tame Impala, The Last Dinner Party, Sudan Archives, Bob Moses, Stavroz, Rhumba Club (released a couple days ago), and more I’m sure! What do you have on your music queue?

Morning, lovelies!

I am trying to rise above it, but I want to snatch the boomer's phone out of his hand and throw it into the river. He is CONSTANTLY checking and poking at it during this matinee performance of Lear.

A dip into this wonderful book with Rufus in my lap.

Busted out the winter coat this morning for the dog walk!

Made a little collage tonight!

I adore this book sooo much. It’s a stunner. It doesn’t pull punches. But it is beautiful. Highly recommended! Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy