Whenever I spot something from far away I think about how good a hawk I would make.

Thrift stores are pretty reliable, if you’re looking for older titles and trying to get off streamers.

Welcome to the hidden track at the beginning of February.

I think that a film like “Killers of the Flower Moon” might be productive because of the way it includes and interrogates genre films within a much larger story of capitalism and crime. Also, Reichardt’s excellent anthology “Certain Women” takes gender and space seriously in its Western rethinking.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

little throwback ditty I wrote a year or two ago when I was immersed for months in Shelley

I'll second this point about Kerrygold for spreading. One of the latest butter game-changers in our house has been shifting from a butter dish to a butter crock. The difference is meaningful!

if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street

Golomb - Real Power Music Video YouTube video by Golomb

Popped this album back on the turntable tonight, and this track jumped out. It's such a great sequence of songs. youtu.be/nRIse5DLzQo?...

Yeah, our dogs had the zoomies this morning and our cats had a wrestling match. I wondered about the full moon because it was a supermoon as well. Glad you mentioned it!

no tunnel but the tunnel whose contours we identify for the purposes of finding its exit, no light but the one we follow to better times

This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

You could be reading a book right now.

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

John, this is fantastic. Thank you.

Thank you for this perfect post.

Might fuck around and
Resist alienation,
Hate and despair, dude

The evil that men do lives after them

Yo La Tengo - "Spec Bebop" (Official Audio) YouTube video by Yo La Tengo

Started the day with Bettie Serveert, wrapping it up with Yo La Tengo, just riding the feedback into the sunset: youtu.be/ecXAs79nHLk?...

Bettie Serveert- "Under The Surface" (Official Audio) YouTube video by De Betties

youtu.be/7A7MwaHB9_g?...

I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

I saw them open for Rilo Kiley on a tour in 2005 after this album was released and their set remains a top life highlight for me. Everyone was dialed in and playing for their lives. Thanks for reminding me to re-visit it!

Revolution and Ruin Book Club: George Sand's Indiana Indiana is married to a brutish man who bullies and abuses her.

This has been such a fun project to work on. For this episode, we do our best to hover between the particulars of Sand’s novel and her frustrations with 1848 in Paris. open.substack.com/pub/thecultu...

picture of Cañones, New Mexico

picture of Cañones, New Mexico

picture of Cañones, New Mexico

picture of Cañones, New Mexico

Cañones, New Mexico
Population: 37
Photos from Google Places API
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cañones,_New_Mexico

What do you think of Nicolas Roeg’s work?

This prospect brings to mind one of @mattseybold.bsky.social’s recent running arguments on “American Vandal,” thinking of print as a rent strike.