I love #HayleyWilliams. She titled her recent album “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” and now her new project is... Power Snatch. Time for a listography of favorite double- and triple-entendre band names.→ variety.com/2026/music/n... || #music
Jeff Bozos selleth #books, botoxes, and then taketh books away. → www.boston25news.com/news/trendin...
She’s right about everything…except the hope that anyone will stand up or that any change is coming except for the worse. This is beyond (literal) trigger warnings. And beyond hope. → [He was EXECUTED - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDETj4Nppsk #pretti #cowardICE
Have to admit, some of that #AI #nostalgia bait---“The late John Hughes revisits the sets of his iconic 80's movies” and “Welcome back to senior year 1988”---breaks my heart a little. A lot.
Given Hyden's routine mockery of Bluesky on the already sorely-missed Indiecast, I probably shouldn't promote this to all of us rife with "blueskyness" -- but it's too good not to recommend!
tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn’t belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.” ¶ ---Flannery O’Connor ¶ found in _The Violent Bear It Away_ || #quotes #commonplacebook #books #reading
“He don’t know it’s anything he can’t know,” the old man said. “That’s his trouble. He thinks if it’s something he can’t know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there the first thing he would do would be to test your head and
Excited to be writing these new mini puzzles for @statnews.com (my favorite site for health and science policy news!)
Current Linguistics #newsletter is a "weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and other media dealing with #language and #linguistics." And it's excellent! → linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/s/current-li...
Cover of Malaika Handa's new book Easy Crosswords for Peace
New #Book: Easy Crosswords for Peace by Malaika Handa! You can't go wrong with this one: for yourself, to support indie #crosswords, or as the perfect gift for a crosswording friend (or one who should be). More info and links → chrisl64.me/crosswords-w...
Tom Stoppard, wearing a black jacket over a white dress shirt, elbow on a round table, in 1990 at the Venice Film Festival. CC-BY-SA licensed photo by Gorup de Besanez
RIP: Tom Stoppard. My commonplace books are rife with bits of Stoppard's plays I've collected over the years, but the simple bit I keep returning to most of late is from _Jumpers_, Dottie quoting Archie, her psychiatrist:
It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting
#rip #tom-stoppard
Downloading Hyperallergic Crosswords
chrisl64.me/crosswords/downloading-h...
How is Dora Jar not more widely acclaimed (by those who appreciate indie pop at least)? So good...and apparently I literally just missed her in concert here! Blurgh. → www.dorajar.world
Reagan Dunn? More like Reagan Dunce with this kind of illogic. → www.courierherald.com/opinion/king...
The problem with Heather McHugh's #poetry is every time I read it, I want to copy *every* poem to my #commonplace book.
Is there an app that will automatically add "(in my opinion)" to every declarative statement I type anywhere in public? Or my new favorite diminutive parenthetical, (imo obvs)?
Ah, OK...
https://chrisl64.me/misc/ah-ok/
ChatGPT or Thee?
https://chrisl64.me/funny-finds/chatgpt-or-thee/
2025 (so far) section of a heatmap with colors indicating presence---and number/size---of anything published that day. More than half of the days show something published.
I am enswooned by @malaika-h.bsky.social's new site, featuring a heatmap-with-linked-flyout-overleaf-thingamajig of her astounding number of published #crossword puzzles (562 at the moment! But probably 575 by the time I press publish in a minute or two).
What Are You Reading? —question at a dinner party Finches—their reluctance to visit her feeder. Dirt in a fuchsia-filled pot. Venus and Jupiter, low in the western sky: Jupiter, closer than it's been in a while. The kitchen towel's heretofore unnoticed ochre. The marquee the marquee the marquee . . . Corn chip pretzel roasted pine nut barefoot Braille on a dining room rug. Three-way billboard just before the slats slip into meaning. Because I might need one, the 12 definitions of crown. Because I might need it, the 5th definition of congress. Spots on my Spanish teacher's skirt. Leopard print skirt not once but twice in a row. Date on a package of yeast. Umber of tracked-in leaves. Feel of the dough feel of the dough . . . Tools. A mud-caked trowel. Of the many shades of dying, of the many realms. Crumbs on this quarter stick of butter. Crumbs of this bread . . . —Martha Silano —found in _The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception_ (2011)
I can't believe I hadn't heard that Martha SIlano passed (on May 4). RIP. A wonderful #poet gone far too early. → marthasilano.net || #rip #poetry #poem
19a: Bass output (4) = ALES | New York Times | Saturday, May 03, 2025 | Michael Lieberman
Fun #crossword #clue → 19A: Bass output (4) | New York Times | Saturday, May 03, 2025 | Michael Lieberman
me: can't wait to make an ambitious themeless grid. crossfire: have you considered ANAL WAX
Seen today. If you know, you know. #crosswords #cruciverbalism
Word game in which you must decide where letters "squeeze" into an existing word. First row. for example. is H blank U blank P -- into which an M can be squeezed to form "hump"
Squeezy...a good #word #game from the aptly named Hey, Good Game studio. → imsqueezy.com
This is Aes's best album and it's his ninth? Tenth? So good. → aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/black-...
Glad I saw this in time!
Extrication (A. R. Ammons)
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