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So great to be back in NYC!
Phone notifications for heat, flood, and heavy rain
So great to be back in NYC!
It's quite healthy to realize that politicians can do things that are deeply annoying and obnoxious but nevertheless don't actually affect anything in the real world and Obama's releasing of playlists is probably top of the list for me.
Thank you Roland Barthes and Brian Dillon for ruining chopsticks
Twitch Plays Parenting
Invited my manager over for drinks while he's in town, obviously stressed about it, looked up some fun new recipes, bought 4 bottles of liquor and citrus. He was "sticking with water tonight, thanks!" so I am now in the market for friends who want to come try my cocktails.
The two funniest pieces I saw were a $125,000 single page from a Gutenberg Bible (but as the dealer assured me, one of the good pages!) and the absolute best piece of ephemera I've every encountered: Jack Kerouac's bank card and a welcome letter from the CEO. They're just like us!
Haha, it was a rare book fair, the whole room smelled like old paper. Could not more highly recommend!
It was truly special; bottle green Morocco binding with a SECOND red Morocco binding on the inside covers, three or four different marbled pages, then the perfectly preserved original soft cover. The (French) dealer and I were like "Yeah, the French know how to to this right."
Spent my time in "the real world" (wandering around a large room looking at rare books). Please enjoy my favorite find, a gorgeously bound inscribed 1st Edition of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal. Yours for a cool $187,000. They let me hold it!
Man, forgot what it was like to be on a frothy social media platform. Step away for 2 days and everything has changed! The hellrope sounded nice though
Also the oysters, laughing offscreen, such a great joke
Oyster happy hour with friends! They're all laughing just out of frame.
Not sure if we're back to doing earnest skeets yet, but anyone in NYC going to the Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend? Love a hyperspecific meetup situation.
Yeah, it's probably since they weren't using agile crop breeding.
Look, Rome wasn't built in a day, but it definitely had a dark mode after the first sunset
The history is actually amazing and instructive; it took 12 years and HAND pollinating A HUNDRED THOUSAND PLANTS in test tubes to get a noticeably sweeter grape that is still firm. Please remember this when you get mad at the 3 Bluesky devs for not building utopia overnight.
I only discovered these last year! Science is truly incredible and Frankenstein is an aspirational novel.
Folks, what a fun day we all had. The skeets are reaching peak deranged insanity just as Jake Tapper joins, and while I'm sure this won't last I will treasure up all these things in my heart and ponder them often. I'm off for the night, be excellent to everyone who doesn't post cringe.
But they're going to track us with COOKIES!!! ON OTHER SITES
BRB calling my HS crush's ex-husband's brother-in-law to ask have you ever considered retiring from posting early?
This explains the fake duck!
Twitter: Tokyo Skeet
People seem pretty unaware of which season of Deadwood we're on in this new frontier. Watch your back out there.
NOBODY THINK THIS IS THE REAL PERSON, LEAVE THE CRINGE BEHAVIOR ON TWITTER
This place is a can of Coke that's been shaking for weeks. Adding dril was like dropping in Mentos. My theory is the first external event that catches on will explode the joint, just skeeting violently in every direction.
You people are walking a razor edge here
This is what Twitter should have felt like Monday during the Tucker defenestration. Just a barrage of posts, no quality control, utter mayhem until the dust settles and you've followed 50 more deranged accounts.
On the other hand, execs are here so the free leftovers have taken a huge step up
Trying to write an email while two loud sales guys take calls next to and in front of me, office culture is back baby!!
One of my favorite Twitter voices, so glad you're here!