this gives joy

so much joy

if you want people to ask, you have to give them the answer they want to hear - that's not your thing

most of my mutuals share that surname - it's why I think of you all as family

💙

The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque / Deleuze

also lapsed (to my Italian grandparents' chagrin), also encouraged (and shocked) that they didn't swing back to conservative after Francis

if my kids turned on tuned in and dropped out they'd be shocked at how ok I'd be with it

also read it over 20 years ago

the last wild ride before the Bretton Woods collapse set us on the road to neoliberalism en route to where we are now (fascism and the superficial non-existence of technocapitalism)

like every child of the 80s, I romanticize the 60s and loved that book

pretty sure that wind up is legal (quasi-dance moves leading into wind up are actually a thing) - could be a quick-pitch issue, but the batter is also dancing and seems part of the choreography so I don't think they'd have a case

🤔

idk, let's see where banging my head against this wall goes before we do anything rash

that's crazy but it just might work

it is, but then you've never been to Orlando, because it's close

no one took this bait

they'd have been all over it on X

ah, Nerval, indeed it is

easy for some, some would need a youtube tutorial to figure out how and may actually enjoy sparring with the bots

tried to use the word "botification" and the bot autocorrected to "notification"

[shiver down my spine]

Capitalism fracks the sensorium.

Lauren Berlant

Thoreau asks Emerson

a stack of books with the words i want to read all the books ALT: a stack of books with the words i want to read all the books

It's Indie April. Support your local indie author!

#readsky #booksky #writingcommunity

if you look closely, the real joke is in the profile pic - I'm finally admitting authorship

[apparently no one has taken a good look at my profile pic]

2nd tier: Sopranos, Six Feet Under, MASH, Mad Men,
The Leftovers

1st tier: Newhart

not sure his politics have tarnished his "legacy" - I think we'd still be laughing at/forgetting him if he was Mother Teresa off the set of Walker Texas Ranger

on this day every year I think of my friend
@joshuarothes.bsky.social
and hope this is the year he makes his triumphant return to social media with a well-crafted whopper

T. Eliot backwards spells toilet.

- @nameofauthor.bsky.social

We are metonymies, we cling, vivacious mortals that we are, like ivies to the banks of shipwrecked books.

Helene Cixous (Tr. Laurent Milesi)

Very much enjoying the latest by @joshuarothes.bsky.social

it's that place down in the tanning district

An Absence of Sea front cover

“the book of a time where our dreams find rest”

@erratumpress.bsky.social

turning a blind eye of the needle