Pablo Casals by Yousuf Karsh, Prades, 1954 "I have never photographed anyone, before or since, with his back turned to the camera, but it seemed to me just right."

Damn

forgot I made this drawing

Earth’s pivot to video.

Looked into this last year and it turns out that there's a back-and-forth where a friend of Adorno's wrote a 'what about Armstrong and Parker though' response-essay and then Adorno wrote an 'I mean all that stuff, it's all the same' response-essay back

mattress on the floor again til I build the new bedframe. there's a sensuousness about it

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

I think about this a lot

behind every grape man is a woman raisin him

Oh is a yearsball happening

Eyes Wide Shut is about how sex haunts upper middle class human sociality but the rich exorcise it by making it more than human (mystical) and less than human (bestial) and shifting it from an interpersonal force of chaos to suprapersonal force of class solidarity

image of my stove

shame he didn’t have a phone as paterson from the film paterson would have written lovely alt text on his posts

much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong

“Get, you rascal! Get! … Heaven knows how he keeps getting in here, Betty, but you better count ’em.”

My 87 yo grandma mentioned podcasts three times within 2 hrs of being picked up from the airport. We HAVE to get the seniors off of youtube

someone should write a proustian or sebaldian type fiction but instead of memory or history "flashing up" it's a zoomer encountering trace remnants of mere subjectivity

made an insane mess of my room within a few hours of being home in a kind of old-school hysterical release of repressed emotion

goes without saying that the fetish of the testosternized cis woman is some of the most bizarre discourse of our time and an almost Tell-Tale Heart style symptom of psychic disorder in the straight world

laid down in exhaustion and promptly broke my bedframe 😭

pay attention

they got some real freaks in columbus TSA. always need a feel

Powerscaling Peterkin Pottle

home tomorrow. everyone please come visit my bedside as I suffer from exhaustion Emily Dickinson style

thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible

i sort of see my dad as a guy with outwardly honorable virtues contradicted by a cruel and disorganized inner world. worth reflecting on my own character in this light

Feel like not enough people were mentioning Merry Christmas Mr. Lawerence for their holiday watches. watch it! It’s a subtlety strange movie, real important christmas lessons

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power

Massachusetts is basically 4chan. They have White's Bakery and a gas station called "Cummies."

Remembering Henry Miller on his birthday 🎂 📷 Brassaï, c. 1930-4 "We have in Miller an ideal instance of the interested eye, one filled with more ego than light, an 'I' which lives in a world of utility and blunt satisfactions." - William H. Gass

fascinating speculative read of the bard

with wine with poetry or with virtue......

A kid I went to high school with got the nickname “Chops Bustable” cause someone thought it was really easy to bust his chops

milestone this year is I've totally flipped on Baby It's Cold Outside misogyny discourse. it's cute that they're shy

making this complaint from a perspective of obvious material privilege, but i always feel a cutting sense of loss when I ask my dad for a book and he gives it to me without any understanding or curiosity about what it is

Personally not a big fan of the midcentury revised-scientistic 'it's not that it *will* happen but that either it *will* happen or everyone dies' strand of predictive Marxist science-of-history, and not a big fan of today's climate-change version of it either

yea buddy that's my reading terminal market!!!

your presents wrapped 2025 you disappointed 32 extended family members this year. That's A Lot. you have 15 gay people online you bought presents for. Room for one more in the polycule? You jerked off 5 times on Christmas day. Talk about a White Christmas!

😭

Merry Christmas

it's nice that as far as Santa goes it's the responsibility of the disillusioned to keep playing

I see Santa is trending, which can only mean one thing. RIP, brother 🙏 Thanks for all the crap.

For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

December 24, 1983: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Liza Minnelli at a Christmas Eve Party at Halston's home in New York City. 📷 Andy Warhol