AI: "Moby-Dick? OK, but have you met MOBIDIC, my whale of an ancestor who worked in the military?"

To sum up the timeline instead of retweeting it all, it's this to infinity now

In old movies, the bathrobe is something you put on when you're sopping wet. Is this because of filming constraints (too much nudity/awkwardness/time involved in toweling off within the scene) or were bathrobes a different breed of thing in the 1940/50s? My fav, from Young Man w/ a Horn:

“Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities...at the margins of society—in industrial suburbs, on isolated farms, beside disused railway tracks, and in other places not claimed by the prosperous.” —Jé Wilson

Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My favorite time on the other site was a couple of years ago when people wrote in describing their deranged and terrifying salvia trips. I saved a bunch of them for posterity, i.e., here. Happy New Year.

Impossible not to picture the stylish but illegal one

Wrote about Barbara Comyns www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

In costume news, just encountered an alluring-verging-on-sexy Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Found one riding the subway. At first I thought "they've won" but if anything can slow the spread of lanternflies, it's the MTA

If you're going to get panned by Musil, get panned for your "moospolstrigen Stil"

It's in Ellen Harvey's Disappointed Tourist project @greg.org www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...

Even the dogs in Chekhov are Chekhovian & say things like "Yes, at times I suffer unbearably, but please excuse it"

Marianne Moore's advice in Women’s Wear Daily, 1965: "The best cosmetic is lemon juice and sour cream (or fresh). Hair should not be synonymous with a hurricane." Armholes should be "roomy but snug." Esquire asks her what her "most paradoxical quality" is: "Like to be inconspicuous but look well."

One nostril means Latin, the other means Greek.. allpoetry.com/Queer-Things

“I am quite aware that the reader does not want to know all this; but I am bound to tell him.” Rousseau, apologizing for describing a room.

Charlotte Bronte, aged 34, writes to her dad about the animals she saw at the zoo: "Some of the American birds make inexpressible noises."