Don’t forget to leave a brick out for Ben Folds this morning

acab includes bari weiss

the way everything stacked upon everything else to get us to her and me and this warmly-lit Christmas Eve

“What’d you fall out of boy, your mom?” my gf questioning the bands name I explain its origin … “Why didn’t they just call him Nuclear Baby?”

when she texts that she gave you a second drawer in the dresser

Joseph Cornell | Constellation (Project for a Christmas card) | 1953

“It’s like you’re putting stitches on a person,” my gf says of the way I’m taping presents

As far as that piece of good news I alluded to earlier, I'd love for y'all to check out the new first line of my bio.

one piece of good news in! More when I can say more …

“I don’t think I like this sponge guy,” my gf says in the first 2 minutes of the SpongeBob movie

sometimes reading my own draft elicits the same feeling as when my child makes eye contact with me while doing something I specifically told them not to do

21/12/25 - nocturn

Oh shit: Hildegard von Bingen reference in the new Catherine Lacey book

one thing about the party of “you don’t have to apologize for being {fill in the blank} anymore” is I haven’t heard them apologize even once

growing up in church means deflecting all compliments godward. which means never truly knowing what you’re worth, how to be good at things instead of just being good. anyway, today my partner said something beautiful about me. instead of waving it off, I asked her to say it again.

in a development sure to thrill my critics and shock my fans, I have to say I do like sombr

In 2025, I found a new favorite novelist, finished Kerouac’s road joints, delighted in manga Murakami and, oh yeah, read books by my lover aarikdanielsen.com/blog/my-most...

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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Uh yeah, this book rules @katyhoran.bsky.social

"leonard cohen made the bible sexy again" is a real thing i just texted my girlfriend on a saturday night

And like a brown bird nesting in a Texaco sign I got a point of view

this @anamariecox.bsky.social video essay is not just good editorial commentary, but great art criticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...

few pleasures as vast as talking music with my son, having his sonic awakening around the same time I did

Here, my favorite reading experiences of 2025, nodding to writers such as Mary Oliver, @catherinelacey.bsky.social, @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social, Sarah Manguso, Haruki Murakami, @emilystjams.bsky.social, @nikostratis.com and (my dear) @hollypelesky.bsky.social: aarikdanielsen.com/blog/my-most...

Collecting my most memorable reading experiences of 2025 and, god, i love writers.

Decided on a lark to play my 12-yo some of the pop hits of 1998 (I chose the year for my own relatively arbitrary reasons). I will occasionally post his reviews. First up, "A Song for Mama" by Boyz II Men (peaked at #7, 6 weeks in top 100). He responded most to the groove and scored it a 10/10!

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

Read this in one sitting. It’s neither great nor awful; he’s neither a hack nor a craftsman. Aggressively just fine. Some tremendous images whose sum the poems rarely, if ever, exceed. A three-star read if ever there was one.

12-yo: Who’s the buffest person you know in real life? Me, who hangs out with writers and painters: ……….

I’ve decided to read the David Duchovny poetry book. I’ll report back.

former Christian, former choir kid here ... these were the kinds of folks that always made me be embarrassed to be either www.vice.com/en/article/g...

“Shh, this is God’s house,” I said to my son as we walked into the library

I’m not always who I really want to be. But when I am, fuck, I like that guy.

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - John Denver and the Muppets A Long December - Counting Crows (don’t you dare)

if i get a little lump in my throat every time stephen colbert says "you are known" to a guest, what's it to you?

asked the 12-yo to give me a few vinyl choices for dinner and anyway we’re listening to this and I’m proud

god forbid i ever become an "expert" On Here. don't get me wrong, I love experts: historians, scientists, librarians, journalists and love following their work. i'm talking about the people who start posting about a certain subject, get some notoriety for it and then make it their whole thing.

the holidays are a time of reflection, a time in which i reflect on how i am still very much an introvert and don't want to be around all these people

my true life goal: to someday be known as “famously reclusive” (rn I’m reclusive but no one knows except Holly)

waiting on a lot of what will be good news when it comes. today would be a good day for one bit of it (at least).

I don’t know how to tell you this, but earlier this year my gf and I realized our parents were married on the same day, same year. That day is today. Obvious disclaimer about them being different people in different states. this is not some sexy version of the parent trap (it’s not not that tho)

Stunning that this just HAPPENED on a show with (at that point) an audience of about 8 million people a week, in 1992. Nothing about Denise was played for laughs, except other people's reactions to her.

all I’ve actually ever wanted is for people to belief the best about me

I still think this might be the best piece of music writing I’ve done (or might do) www.memoirmixtapes.com/volume-12-pi...

“It’s like Succession,” my gf tells me about the library

my current definition of intimacy: knowing my gf will nearly always curate and send me insta reels while she’s in the bathroom

Christ

adding to my Leonard Cohen phase: a Neil Young jag (just 70s and crazy horse records; I have a life to live after all). just fully rocking/rolling into midlife.