Buzzati - The Stronghold Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop Christie - And Then There Were None Forster - Howard’s End Grossman - Life and Fate Manzoni - The Betrothed Hughes - The Expendable Man Lewis - Babbitt Lowry - Under the Volcano Tolstoy - War and Peace

33 years ago today, Krusty the Clown was forced to replace Itchy & Scratchy with Worker & Parasite. “Krusty Gets Kancelled” first aired on May 13, 1993.

Sad, but inspiring. In a mundane sort of way.

My intrusive thought of the morning.

Russ Meyer Wienermobile

I’ll never forget my first Boy Scout overnight trip: John Sterling calling the final out of the ‘96 series on a transistor radio by the campfire RIP to a legend.

Post your warning sign

Rise and Fall of The Third Reich by William Shirer The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times by Henry Russell Hitchcock The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Ship of Ghosts by James Hornfischer Wilderness And The American Mind by Roderick Nash (A very incomplete list)

I asked Claude, and he’s shocked. SHOCKED!

just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag

Today is April 10th, so naturally I’m spending it watching the legendary film about the legendary liner: #Titanic. Barbara Stanwyck AND Thelma Ritter? Who could resist??

A lovely day for early voting in the Free City. #OTAlx

im still waiting on some ambitious democrat to talk about razing the ballroom. its one of my personal 2028 litmus tests. it cannot be allowed to stand.

And what handsome housing it builds.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

I just needed to make sure that @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social saw this.

Lest we forget Sunda.

One could make the argument for Malacca being the most crucial strait.

Bosporus!

Taylor Ham spotted in the wild in the Free City:

Guy blows through a red arrow while I have the walk sign and has the temerity to roll down his window and tell me he has the right of way??

Today is the 10th of February. I have already voted more times this calendar year than any other year in my life. Pending any more resignations or vacancies, there are at least three more elections to go between now and November. Alexandria, Virginia: Never Not Voting.

I’m ready.

Apartments > fascism sticker when @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social

The Guns of Navarone

Quote post with five jobs you have had: 1. Event Planner* 2. Guy who pulls stuff to the front of the shelf at Target 3. Crab Shack 4. Server 5. Architect

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

From a piece earlier this year: Trump wiped away more than 600 years in sentenced prison time for Jan. 6 rioters. Gift link: wapo.st/4qGmHZY

See a bridge, post a bridge.

Top notch stuff for the archives turning up in my New Year’s Day purge. Some serious weight loss goals for the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge circa 2005.

I’m pretty sure I put down more than five Diet Cokes at lunch alone.

Has anyone done this yet

Books of 2025. I can’t believe: American Prometheus wasn’t the longest book I read this year. I had never read War and Peace before I only read two books about Guadalcanal I resisted the urge to reread Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

post a no context photo from your 2025 holiday festivities (Didn’t mean for this to be a “take a picture of the tv” thread, but I couldn’t resist) #GotThatToWorryAboutNow #WhizzoTgeClown

In this house We believe It’s not really Christmas Until that jolly fat man utters those famous words: What a Christmas! What a Christmas!!

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Guess I'll post this again

New Old Town affordable housing building and 640-unit Potomac Yard project receive approval

Writing Christmas cards while livestreaming the City Council meeting. Apologies for anyone who gets a “merry density” greeting this year.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

A six-oh vote for 88 more affordable homes in Alexandria! Also: Apologies for the scalp sheen, bottom center of the livestream.

Showtime.

Happy #GauchoDay to all who celebrate.

congratulations to 17 voters on not being entirely bored of Aaron Judge's greatness

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Oldest Selfie on your phone 9 years ago (I came late to the smartphone era) Feat.: medallion, chest hair, and Campari

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

A great step forward in the process! Thrilled and honored to be working on those 88 affordable units. Onward to DSUP!

A private to call this place Home. (the Free City of Alexandria, not the GW Masonic Memorial.)

Every hot dog stand will in fact be replaced by the deconstructivist falafel stand from the 1995 Parker Posey vehicle Party Girl.