It's the classy thing to do.

What, indeed, is going on?

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

‘In cutting literature programs, universities like my former institution are dismantling the intellectual infrastructure that enables young people, and particularly the least advantaged, to become critical subjects capable of engaging with the all-too-many systems of power around them.’

Let's hope it keeps on giving.

Maybe Fran is terrible at life.

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2-D House of Wax!

Lucan was btd in 39 CE.

Of civil wars and worse waged on Emathian fields,
of crime made law we sing, how a powerful people
turned on its own heart its conquering hand,
of ranks of relatives, and a broken pact of rule
that dragged a shaken world with all its strength
(Trans. Matthew Fox)

Chewin' The Fat - Betty (2) YouTube video by József Csáth

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Happy Halloween!

"Bill’s a slum boy, you see, he’s got a slum sense of humour. That’s why I never take him along with me to parties….There’s nothing wrong with slum slugs in their place, but this one won’t keep his place—he crawls all over the walls of nice houses, leaving slime, don’t you, boy?"--Pinter

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Local mansion-squatting welfare king enjoys masturbates with hypocrisy.

"He has his father's eyes!"

Gotta make even more room for Jesus on the dance floor.

King in a Catholic Style? Wall of God?

"This quotation is my support animal."

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In some things, being undecided is like Fleabag going to a therapist with a "free session" coupon from her father. When the therapist tells her, "You already know what you're going to do," she becomes restive, annoyed. Because sometimes, being undecided is the trade name of disavowal.

Some people chase their dreams; still others hunt them down and kill them with kindness.

Congratulations!

“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine” --Max Beerbohm, from The Works of Max Beerbohm, p. 55.

Tallulah sporting her Phone Answering Hat. Gotta have the right hat to answer the phone, yo.

Ronald Firbank, the Samuel Beckett of Camp, was born 138 years ago today!

"The world is disgracefully managed; one hardly knows to whom to complain--RF, Vainglory
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating--RF, Vainglory

Portrait of Firbank by Wyndham Lewis

I was at his funeral. A grad student, waaay at the back of the church.

Kevin Bridges on Doja Cat was hilarious, though.

David Bomberg was BTD in 1890! Here's his "Ju-Jitsu," ca. 1913 and "In the Hold," ca. 1913-14::

And when Ed Sullivan was taken off the air for his involvement with Watergate.

Obscene.