For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Sam Anderson returning to the Thunder beat, years after "Boom Town," is a good, good time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/m...

can we get @shamblanderson.bsky.social and me as the Timothée and Ben Stiller

"Now the prisoner has an advantage over his keeper in this respect, that he is always thinking of escape and watching for opportunities, while the keeper does not constantly think of keeping him." — Charles Portis, True Grit

I think of this video constantly re: current events (esp the sudden shift 90 seconds in) — they should show it in civics classes youtu.be/c8-LcuqBwW8?...

Enjoying the notebooks of Sonny Rollins

I wrote about my favorite guy, the Old Leatherman: a mysterious 19th-century folk hero who walked a 365-mile loop, obsessively, through NY / CT. He wore a homemade leather suit and slept in caves. Newspapers published endless gossip & fan fiction about him. I walked his route & sat in his caves.

I like Orwell’s description of racism as a “vast system of mental cheating.” Lotta mental cheating going on out there these days. (Quoted in Anna Funder’s great book WIFEDOM: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life)

new life motto

“Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat” — Andrew Solomon, THE NOONDAY DEMON: An Atlas of Depression

Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024) appreciation thread "When I die"

Not to brag but I had a dream where i made up this joke — i actually woke up in the middle of the night & wrote it down on my phone

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 6,1946

Eka Kurniawan, BEAUTY IS A WOUND

A.J. Liebling's book about Chicago (CHICAGO: The Second City, 1952) is VERY MEAN and entertaining.

In the caveman days of eons past (2010) I started a Twitter account where I posted the best sentence I read every day. (I was book critic for @nymag.com so was reading constantly.) Reading is still my favorite thing, so now I'm gonna try some version of that here. www.vulture.com/2010/02/ande...

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