Images of individual trees in black against a white background with the name of the tree under each, featured alphabetically

Irish artist, Katie Holten created a Tree Alphabet #womensart

#books

Graphic for this series with specific dates that can be found at the link in the post

Classic Movie Nights at The Frida continue!

In May we kick off with Billy Wilder's SABRINA, followed by a double dose of Cukor with THE WOMEN in June and ADAM'S RIB in July. Rounding out the summer is Fred Zinnemann's trailblazing western HIGH NOON in August!

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The only award I’ve ever cared to win

“listen I love you joy is coming”

— Kim Addonizio

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This poem appeared in Poetry Society of America. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“We are so busy / being small and hungry and alive.”

— Joy Sullivan

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This poem appeared in Instructions for Traveling West by Joy Sullivan, published by Dial Press Trade, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.

I first saw this at San Francisco State University (as a film major)...I had a great education there! #GoGators 🐊

A bright illustration of an orange and yellow squirrel with a large fluffy tail on a deep blue background with simple star shapes. The text reads: “I hope that you continue to feel more and more like who you really are. The squirrel of self confidence.” Picture by Katie Abey. Us

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little more you, today. Not the role, not the expectation, just you.

That’s enough. 🧡

#authenticity #kindness #SelfCompassion

Picture by Katie Abey

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.

gnome semi-visible with head poking out of a hole in the ground. text says "sorry for acting weird, I am weird and it will happen again"

new favorite meme

the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.

If you're a journalist who goes to this event, you will lose a substantial amount if not all of my trust.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Sometymes evil doth seeme so powerful that the heart groweth sick. But ther ys comfort yn the fact that evil ys an aberration. Our default settinge ys lovinge each othir and lookinge out and takinge care. We smyle at children. We give somebodye bus fare. We share advyce. Kyndenesse ys braverye.

One of the greatest adventures to ever grace the big screen! RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) screens in 35mm next weekend, Saturday & Sunday, April 25th & 26th, at 2:00pm. Tickets: buff.ly/pdyTaEc

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies

Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

Frankenstein (1910). Kind of wild to consider that its release is closer in time to the publication of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel than to the present day

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“Finally knowing you, I know I cannot know you.”

— Alex Dimitrov

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This poem appeared in Together and By Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I am so sad and everything is beautiful.”

— Mark Nepo

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This poem appeared in Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness by Mark Nepo, published by Sounds True, 2016. Shared here with deep gratitude.

An anthropomorphic piece of sliced bread and a bunch of red roses smiling, walking hand-in-hand. The slice of bread carries a red banner that says "We Want It All" Beneath the image it says Haymarket Books Est. 2001, Chicago IL

We want it all

New design collab with @harebrained.bsky.social

Wonderment In A Time Of Anxiety “Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again” Pablo Casals

In the midst of a very trying & difficult time, I explore the transcendence of beauty in the midst of turmoil: of birdsong, Yo-Yo Ma and the infinitude of beauty & wonder.
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sometimes writing feels a bit like poking a sleeping bear and running away to see what it does when it wakes up

I wish every movie I watch could be a Powell and Pressburger movie

Feeling down? See THE GOONIES at The Frida Cinema on April 27th as our beloved Eddies' staff pick! 💰

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You must remember this: Michael Curtiz's
CASABLANCA returns to The Frida on April 16-19, 22 as part of our 13-film Humphrey Bogart retrospective, Bogie Fest ✈️

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TITICUT FOLLIES - American Cinematheque

This Sunday at 1pm, as part of @amcinematheque.bsky.social's "This Is Not a Fiction" festival, TITICUT FOLLIES will be screening at the Los Feliz Theatre. I'm happy to say an interview I conducted with the late, great Frederick Wiseman about the film will show afterward.