unfortunately I must concede that "Curse of the Mambino" rules

Maybe Wallace Stevens had money. But, really, it wasn't poetry money.

Someone has to defend the poets here ... They, clearly, cannot pay for, well, anything.

Update: @nytimes.com Story is out but the pun didn’t make it. Sad! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

T-Shirt slogan yellow on black "what would Victor serge do?"

someone I once knew had a t-shirt saying this

Leaving Paris is already dramatic ...

More later.

But I think I get why people like him.

Working my way slowly through a Victor Serge book. Not sure why this is difficult.

An action figure of Jessica Fletcher from the tv show Murder She Wrote.

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

If stress suffering & lingering sense of doom is what we gotta learn navigate to get to the next level it’s lookin like we’re all gonna win. So that’s good news

EVERYONE: what are you doing with your life

ME: [with the utmost confidence] regretting it

Emily Dickinson was the Lisa Frank of slant rhyme

It's been a while since I had to resent Duke's success, so I feel like they're due to make the final four this year

Also, I've caught up on my emails.

A cat completely tangled up in tape from a cassette.

♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

Also, does a no two first names rule apply to Victor Serge?

I would like to believe that this is true

So we were talking about the March tournament, and she called it my principled stance against Duke

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

yeah sorry, i told claude to put itself in my shoes

the phillies have officially lost the nl east's big silly guys fun vibes status. the braves (ontologically evil) mets (have their own weird thing) and nats (AAA roster) are ineligible so congratulations to the... marlins?! that can't be right

When I type 'wtf', but it autocorrects to "Verily, I hath witnessed a spectacle so witless,mine very soul hath packed its belongings and fled mine body. Tis as though reason itself hath tripped over a turnip and perished."

I really do speak that way. It fucks with the normies.

Close reading is a powerful method.

This has been bugging me this morning.

Is Ann Carson a superfan of winter sports?

I have a hard time imagining LK sitting still for long enough to watch, like, a hockey game or a round of snowboarders doing tricks.

Like, I absolutely believe that Annie Ernaux does. And Han Kang too.

This is kind of dumb, I wonder if Laszlo Krasznahorkai watches the Olympics.

I did not like Shadow Ticket. This is just a first impression, but, hmm.

"Villette as full-on gothic horror"