Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

today I learned

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Baked eggs!!!

Philly #bookhaul courtesy of Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni’s Room

the new york times can try and fail to recreate mcmansion hell however i can take comfort in the fact that no one else on god's green earth has written five essays about the incest twins from the ring cycle

An excellent cookbook haul from my local vinyl store. Yes, that’s right.

barbra streisand telling rambling anecdotes and then breaking into song is my platonic ideal of the oscars

That was an elegantly handled In Memoriam, probably the best ever. One of the only times in Oscar history that it actually felt like the show was asking people to stop, think, remember, smile, and mourn.

No she is singing!!!!!

my first post :)

Which is which: a gala, a dinner, and a pool?

New swim trunks. Hope my pool friend cuties like em

Live your life! Watch March Madness from your patio!

No Sunday scaries here just crying at the end of Erin Brockovich

Grating cheese is SO fun until it starts getting scary.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Browse the stacks!!! Find unexpected books!!! Also used to be a good place for cruising!!!

The idea even that it is elite to succeed without struggle. Which... describes nepotism and legal impunity, a fantasy of protected classes.

What a great day of cooking and light workouts!

10 pm bedtime total cultural victory

I read this, and I am freshly reminded that one of the most important insights in humanism is that this our one and only life.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

by Mary Oliver.

So someone on BlueSky called me the c-word for posting about a football game. Others are critical of posting about something as trivial as football when so many awful things are happening. So we shouldn’t post photos of pets, flowers or sunsets either? C’mon. We can resist AND live our lives.

✅ half marathon yesterday ✅ protesting today

#NowWatching Louder than Bombs (2015) with Isabelle Huppert and Jesse Eisenberg

#gayreader #books #januaryreads

Great swim today

(Un)fortunately I do love: - an envelope slipped into a copy of your favourite book - bold men - neck kisses - planning months ahead of time - beautiful women

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Heavy pullover double collar situation is my dream

NW: BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI on Criterion

oh noooo lolol

Reading ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE alongside PONTIUS PILATE is crazy serendipity. What strange books with which to play in hypothesis land.

Wow ok unfollowing now. I loved him as a loyal butler, did not know he was an unreliable narrator

I have reason to believe that outsourcing a responsibility whose intricacies you don’t fully understand to someone else with even less grasp of those intricacies is a bad idea.

Tonight is a good night to bring up––once again––how I attribute my scholarly methodologies, habits, and perspectives to the fact that 80% of my readings in undergrad were shitty photocopies of my profs' books.

so good to see @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social’s Close Readings finally back, & with a beautiful ep on beloved Alice Notley w/ @nicksturm.bsky.social

I can't believe I deleted Twitter before getting a final tally on how many people I successfully bullied into reading McTeague

Nathaniel Hawthorne will never break your heart like this