It's often more convincing to draw a simple character and subvert it with a simple contradiction than it is to draw a complex character with many traits. In the first case, your audience will infer dimension, but in the second it'll get confused. You're making magic--use the crowd! #scriptsky

Yum, can vouch for this one personally. Genuinely fantastic boozy homemade eggnog, and in large, shareable quantity!

I wrote Between Two Rivers to share something I love in a way that anyone — whatever their work, prior knowledge, or exhaustion levels — could enjoy. So many writers have done this for me on topics I’d never have time for a deep dive on (trees, the ocean, eels), and I wanted to do this for others❣️

don't be stealing my bone ash ok

doleful moo, always worth a read, this time with chocolate!

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

I named my fists Signifier and Signified because I'm always game for a little vigorous deconstruction.

Have been a Tom Stoppard superfan since the film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and am only just learning, to my astonishment, that his first language was likely a Moravian dialect of Czech.

lord love a duck #Photography #Landscape #Autumn

I’ll give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise you won’t procure the book from a billionaire…

Not gonna do the full concerts-list thing, but maybe the most interesting one I lucked into was the Pixies at Oberlin College, 1991, with David Bowie and Tin Machine unexpectedly showing up to hang out and watch, too.

drop your New Wave album cover here:

This got away from me. I was watching (or listening to) TV.

LA River, Glendale Narrows, egrets, horses, sunlight, clear day... The serenity I need before the holiday. 😎

Nice concise thread from a very smart neuroscientist/self-driving-tech entrepreneur. Safety isn't an adequate reason to cede the roads to Google, *even granting* that current driving culture is dangerous and unsustainable.

Re: on a roll, I specifically often find it helpful to stop in the middle of something--a scene, a sonnet, even a sentence. I'll leave a short note to myself about what's coming next, and usually that's enough to start the next session with momentum.

Et in Arcadia ego, Charlie Brown.

Did I know that dame was trouble? Sure. Did it make a difference? Does any of it? Ask her husband, he's the priest. #Photography #Birds #FlashNoir

if you feel like mud, you'll end up gold if you feel like lost, you'll end up found so, amigo, lay them raises down #Photography #Autumn #TownesVanZandt

@alexdecampi.bsky.social These are great! I've always liked this Metzinger from the Indiana Museum of Art, too. Similar style to the one at Christie's, which makes sense given the IMA's neo-impressionist strength. collections.discovernewfields.org/art/artwork/... (Arrow-click to see the front.)

fortunate to visit many campuses + easy to say English at Montclair with its many ties to the Honors College, is among the most vibrant undergrad communities the break things+fail upward admin has got to go students speaking out are being subject to admin harassment www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

gather ye rosebuds #Photography #Birds #Poetry

The Pope said go to the Music Box

bald eagles #Photography #Birds #Ohio

Robert Musil on business and film, 1930: "In its present form, cinematography may not look like much, but once the big interests get involved--the electrochemical, say, or the chromochemical concerns--you are likely to see a surging development in just a few decades, which nothing can stop." (1/2)

Chicago Botanic Garden, pre-snowfall

another huge problem writers are facing with a new james bond movie: james bond looks totally different now. its like hes a completely different guy

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

Someone in a Teams meeting just said “It’s the old chicken and the egg question isn’t it? Why did they cross the road?” then realised what they’d said and turned their camera off.

The first two who come to mind for me are Sam Shepard and Peter Boyle, whom I first encountered through The Right Stuff and Everybody Loves Raymond, respectively. Buried Child! True West! The Candidate! Young Frankenstein! etc., etc. Little did I know.

dapper #Photography #Birds #Ohio

#Booksky - this cult classic was legendary in the twitter lit scene back in the day and it's been out of print for ages. Fucking brilliant book from one of the most original and versatile voices on the block. You'll need to move fast if you wanna get a copy cos these aren't gonna stick around 🦩📚

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! The lone and level sands stretch far away. #Ozymandias

night statues #Photography #Ohio #Wildlife

public research, public goods, hanging on: such a phenomenal conversation about debt, collective action, personal narrative, absurdist humor, and the power of art for social organizing! thank you to The Debt Collective, Jason Wozniak, Kashana Cauley+ UIC English! everybody read The Payback!

Wounds

the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

witch king #Photography #Ohio #Woods

Robert Musil's amazing chapter titles, example one zillion: "General Stumm Invades the State Library and Learns about the World of Books, the Librarians Guarding It, and Intellectual Order"

Some Like It Hot Pot

Holy smokes. Co-edited by Tony Kushner, if you needed any further boost. What a gift to anyone who loves theater and film.

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech. hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

A History of Violence comes to Criterion! Congrats to screenwriter extraordinaire @josholson.bsky.social.

Just found this promo pamphlet from a 70mm 2015 Roadshow screening of Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT tucked away on the bookshelf. Advertising swag, sure, but still, his love for the medium and attention to detail couldn't be more obvious. Long live the movies.

raptor rehab, Yellow Springs, OH #Photography #Birds #GlenHelenPreserve

North Uist, 2019

New link. www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

Pure disgust at the use of LLMs to reanimate the dead for fun and profit. I don't even care if they previously gave permission, which almost universally they have not.