the question for all the already actually rich people in entertainment is do they make stuff for these people (and amazon) or are they just wearing cute red carpet pins

Robert Coover’s J. Henry Waugh : fantasy baseball :: Gerald Murnane : imaginary horse races

This is pretty good news as I’m a fan of @adamoprice.bsky.social. The Hotel Neversink is a great book. This guy does the “good writing” so many are taking about.

[checking the roster for the city's summer music festival] social distortion?... limp bizkit... the guess who... cypress hill... shaggy?

There is never a bad time to note that Mathias Enard's novels are all great and that @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social's fantastic translations make it possible for me to read them (as I am certain that my three years of high school French from the early 90s would ne cut it pas).

"Neil Young was never normal."

Child asking me about photographs in my office… ”…is this one your mother, or your teacher?” “That is Iris Murdoch, my favorite novelist and philosopher” “Is this one your mother?” “…that is also Iris Murdoch.”

I spent the weekend rearranging the books on my part of the main bookshelf in the living room. I switch from organizing them based on "I feel like this goes here" to "roughly chronological based on when the author was born, unless that would cause an author's books to be split between shelves."

David Cronenberg's asthma inhaler

Do you enjoy misanthropic melancholic baroque lofi bedroom orchestral pop music?

Keep honking! I’m listening to the LibriVox recording of Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 gothic masterpiece “The Mysteries of Udolpho” and am so engaged by the voluptuous prose that I missed my turn and now I am lost, traveling along an empty lane, the trees bending ever closer, an endless horrid embrace.

Keith Emerson Moogmogged Rick Wakeman. I am almost certainly going to delete this

At the grocery, my daughter asked to look at the dish scrubbies. She has a whole collection. She bought new one to draw a face on and play with. On the way to the car she said she was overwhelmed with excitement because she was “starting a new adventure” with this scrubbie and I almost cried.

Neil Young & The Restless - Paramount Theater, Seattle, Washington, February 21, 1989 (a classic tape)

I like sports headlines that could also be summaries of medieval chivalric romance

After careful consideration, Ummagumma will be the first album I play in my new car today.

Honestly, the weapons formed against me are doing quite well.

"It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones." -CS Lewis

C.S. Lewis on reading old books:

If you are sad that Martin isn't going to ever finish the Game of Thrones books, let me give you a suggestion.

There comes a time in every father’s life when his daughter asks, “Can we please stop listening to The Residents?”

Julian Lage is an all time great.

Jim O’Rourke

Jad Fair runs to the phone to call Yo La Tengo.

what a nightmare

Honestly if you made PONTYPOOL into a video game I'd imagine it having sections like this

e-lady and her podcaster boyfriend

A panel from one of the last Peanuts comics. I think of it often.

The person who wrote a novel that got turned into a movie is commissioned to write a novelization of a sequel in the movie series his novel inspired. Ramboroboros.

Link to the 1984 The Cure show. archive.org/details/ajc0...

‘All my books are written in French. But I live in another language, so my French is probably contaminated’ Mathias Énard in The Observer! observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I love The X-Files

And then you turn the page, and descend into 400 pages of war. Absolute gut punch. I was already a Vollmann true believer, but that’s real GOAT stuff

At the halfway point of Fathers and Crows, there is a brief section about a Jesuit missionary who embraced the the native population with love and converted 4k people single-handedly. The chapter ends with “it could have been done this way in Canada. It could have been done.”

I was just informed by my daughter that the enemy of chocolate is macaroni and cheese.

Reading The Mill on the Floss and Eustace and Hilda at the same time has been a good idea. A very fun pairing.

I must’ve forgotten this Bible story

a successful society does not engage in "dibs"

catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent

#AgainsttheDay #ThomasPynchon “The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out...broken, dying...intimidated into silence...all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State.

Hard to describe something I could possibly hate more than “Machine that destroys books to consolidate corporate information dominance”

I got tired of lugging that single-volume brick around. So look what I got! So handy, only 7 x 4.25". And such pretty covers too. (The brick, shown for reference, measures 8.125 x 5.5".) Direct from #Gallimard. #Proust #Proustsky

for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...

Tapping the sign

Last summer I saw this at a target and genuinely thought I was hallucinating

Both Gödel and ABC's "The Bachelorette" explore topics of incompleteness.

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.