newspaper and cinnamon
I don't believe in my friend, oh
I started late
I work from home
and my roses are in bloom

Roland McDoland

It’s the end of the world as we know it

Yesterday I texted my son a Philip Larkin poem. Today I texted him a Ross Gay poem and said “this could be a reply to the last poem.” He wrote back: “I feel like this new poem is a tad less bleak.”

denied
our luxury of nausea, you
forget nothing, have no dreams.

Check out this Adrienne Rich poem “Artificial Intelligence” from her 1963 book “Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law”

The third slide is a note on the poem that appears on the final page of the book

Not bad Mr. Connors. You say this is your first lesson?

live now ✨

My son Alton drew this excellent flyer for Videoteca Nod’s upcoming marathon screening of GROUNDHOG DAY this Monday 2/2 🎩

Check it out!

wow—look at this great old Hallmark postcard

“You only live once, so be careful.”

—Anelise Chen’s dad

Wow, Carmella Creeper gone already? RIP Carmella Creeper 2023–2024.

great poster

Christina’s World

“Artists like Mike Kelley and Sophie Calle are exploring voyeuristic intimacy and the dark side of our world. There are clues in that for us who are doing architecture.”

—Frank Gehry, 1991

McSweeney’s Books: A Q&A with Tucker Nichols and McSweeney’s Art Director Sunra Thompson about the New Book, Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols - - -The first career-spanning book from Bay Area artist Tucker Nichols, Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols attempts to capture, in one ...

"I’ve realized that the launch of any worthwhile project comes with a feeling of being naked and unsure. Without that, I’m probably playing things too safe and might not feel much satisfaction once it’s out in the world." -- Tucker Nichols

BOOK CALL FOREVER

This ad is from 1988 and the 1-800 phone number still works as intended 📞📚♾️

the Ambetter health insurance app does not allow screenshots, so here are some laptop photos of my phone screen

Had to deliberately misspell “ophthalmology” in my health insurance app to find an in-network ophthalmologist

1995 beer coaster by artist Tim Ayres for Amsterdam’s Café Schiller

I wish I were in NYC today for the opening of Eve’s solo show at First Street Gallery!

Eve Mansdorf in 2025 with her 1999 painting SECOND STORY

“Corn is pretty good. You’ve got to chew it a lot, but what the hell.”

—William “Fergie” Ferguson (as told to David Greenberger)

a great way to make myself weep is to read the 1980 Sharon Olds poem ARMOR and the 1996 Sharon Olds poem MY SON THE MAN in quick succession

HOT DOG 2
H D W-CH 3 W-CHILI 4

front view of a colorful ceramic face sculpture measuring 7 x 7 x 2 inches

side view of a colorful ceramic face sculpture measuring 7 x 7 x 2 inches

Keavy Murphree
Ice Cream Social, Ten

Me sitting on the floor of our dorm laundry room in 1999 collating pages of the weekly newsletter

stacks of pages of the dorm newsletter; these pages have been passed under a water faucet and then run through a clothes dryer

Prepping the "Wet & Wrinkled" theme issue of our dorm newsletter, 1999. We passed all the pages under a faucet & dried them in dryers before stapling. Some articles engaged with the concept, others did not attempt to 💦

Ingres’s 1845 painting of Comtesse d'Haussonville walked so that Rob Liefeld’s 1996 drawing of Captain America could fly

I wonder if the great Basil Wolverton was familiar with 19th century Alutiiq/Sugpiaq masks such as these