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"…mildly erotic with its curvaceous plaster walls." -Michael Kimmelman on the renovation of The Frick www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a...

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QUOTES DEPT: "A thousand of my father’s most subtle syllogisms could not have said more for celibacy." -L. Sterne, Shandy

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READING DEPT: Elias Canetti In bed with some light reading.

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READING AND WRITING DEPT: You have to put in the 10,000 hours. Garner told The Paris Review: “The diaries are how I turned myself into a writer — there’s my 10,000 hours.” -from Helen Garner’s diaries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...

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@slotkin.senate.gov: you need to say “SPENDING IS GOOD, AND HERE’S WHY: FREE EDUCATION FOR EVERYBODY, HEALTHCARE, SCIENCE FOR THE FARMERS AND THE REST OF US, WHATEVER!" Own why democrats can govern, goddammit!

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Nice to see Leonard Cohen remaining culturally relevant. A character in the red-glasses skit on SNL: "I once went down on Leonard cohen."

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MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN EMOJIS DEPT: Type in Emoji Kitchen into the google browser and mix and match emojis. Because it’s things like this that really matter right now.

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MY CELEBRITY AUTOBIO DEPT: Chow Yun Fat at a screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled, Divine on a NYC street. Asked for an autograph and got one. He was divine! Jerome Hellman, ditto autograph. Got a wave back from Tom Hiddleston on a NYC sidewalk.

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PARAPHRASE DEPT: Hamlet "There is more philosophy in fiction, dear reader, than are dreamt of in philosophy."

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AMERICAN DYSTOPIA DEPT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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READING DEPT: PROUST I have decided to begin reading Proust again this year, and this time finish it. The elegant Penguin Modern Classics paperback editions, from the UK are expected to arrive on February 12. I am intimidated and excited in equal measure. I hope to recapture my focus.

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