I rewatched the last few eps of the last season to prepare me for THIS season and I re-traumatized myself. This show is so damn good.

Spent three minutes of my life I will never get back figuring out which journo is having a snit fit now and why and I think going forward I'm just going to let this stuff burn itself out. It's just weeds in the back of the garden between the shed and the fence.

Written by yours truly. Can't wait to see the Gee's Bend quilts tomorrow. Love to see the city's arts orgs rally together to celebrate the community that QuiltCon draws out.

That was goooood. Dominoes, Power grid, coquito shots and Ricky Martin. Well done.

This is the one.

I still cannot get over this detail reported by the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/5fa6...

Read # 7 first, then read this post again.

Banging the same gong as everyone else about the need to support independent media & locally owned publications, but: For the love of god, please support us!! If not the @indyweek.bsky.social, support wherever you get your news from. Being owned only by the powerful does not work.

Bezos and Trump are at war with the arts and humanities. While trying to force “AI” on us to let machines steal ideas from the past so we can all let our critical thinking muscles atrophy in the present, they are destroying the anchors of artistic and journalistic community

And it shouldn’t miss notice that they’ve done this to the Blackest city in the country. Yes, white libs were the intended audience of WaPo & Kennedy Ctr…but the loss of teaching artists, restaurant reviews, school board coverage, public school outreach programs will harm Black DC

Bernie hit 'em with the, "uh uh", let me ask again, because

Ms. Shirley has touched so many lives. She had an astute understanding of addiction, loss, and mental illness that guided her profound sense of empathy. I closely followed her Tuesday feeds which taught me more about the unhoused than anyone could ever hope to do. Rest in sweet peace Ms. Shirley.

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

"A writing career is not a sprint. It is also not a marathon. A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

That's because we're going outside to engage with art now! There are over 80 artists represented in this show in Durham (chosen by yours truly). Support artists and buy their work! www.durhamartguild.org/71juried

Yet...(checks notes) DEI is a problem?

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

Charlotte, NC: Alma Adams is first on this list.

My God, this is UNACCEPTABLE behavior. Go ahead and pick who you think I'm talking about. There are TOO MANY OPTIONS and you'd be right.

There isn't enough neon happening with this Body Glove wetsuit. #strangerthings

If you're looking to shake things up in the new year, these streaming platforms will help you diversify your music-listening habits. n.pr/3MFVckn

Picking this childhood pic of Venus is frying me!

Pilar Tompkins Rivas's exit from the Lucas is the latest shakeup at the $1 billion museum, following May's layoffs of much of the education team, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lucas-museum...

I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...

"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.

Conservativism is a rejection of imagination. We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is a threat to society.

A little heavy handed with the Gatorade product placement on Stranger Things.

"How old am I? I’m tunic years old."

I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.

'You’re probably thinking, screw you, my doctor would tell me if something was really wrong, or else they wouldn’t have sent these. But do you know that for sure? Because there sure are a lot of numbers here and a lot of arrows up and down."

This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.

In this week's Art Insider for @kcrw.com I write about how Los Angeles is a punk zine but the Hammer's biennial feels more like a well-mannered faculty cocktail. email.kcrw.com/hammer-museu...

The sandbagging and delusion.

Reads headline: Five?

up now online, and in print tomorrow, a beautiful piece by @cultureshockart.bsky.social in @indyweek.bsky.social reflecting on two local exhibitions that tie together memory, home, kinship, and meals through photographs and multimedia work.

His ability to bring the past into the present with such clarity and a clear, actionable vision for the future is impressive. This campaign is a master class.

Secretary Uncooked Hamburger is perfect. He's about as unhinged as that hamburger meat scene in Better Off Dead.

Words are magic

@prisonculture.bsky.social Good morning. Think you’ll appreciate this essay from Octavia E. Butler’s former teenage neighbor. www.publicbooks.org/my-neighbor-...

Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative is less discussed than others in part because it focuses on this aspect of slavery.

The people who can get us through this are not going to be choir boys and girls!

I have never been a fan of this Met logo, so for them to partner with...*checks notes* California based, surfer brand Pacific Sunwear (PacSun), suggests they still in a branding identity crisis.

The audacity. Byron, wyd?

America has run out of shame

Guys, I promise you Beetlejuice won't appear if y'all bring TCN up a third time this week. Stop this.

@stillnaima.bsky.social are you still collecting these, because this one made me fall off the couch.

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Posting Betye Saar's "Edge of Ethics" (2010) I first learned about Black babies and alligators from this piece.