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Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
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Sitting in a cafe when Elvis Presley’s “Moody Blue” comes on; I suddenly remembered my mother owned that record on blue vinyl. She mostly listened to the radio, but she did have that record. Not long after, Elvis was dead. I can still see her shaking her head, saying over and over, “What a shame.”

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Trying to think of a dumb joke with the traction this inexplicably gained and… I got nothing. It’s too hot.

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Oof. Sad to say how likely this will be…

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nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it

submitted 4 hours ago • 62 comments

Worst. Season. Ever.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Wish I could Irish-goodbye this heatwave.

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My favourite jazz album was recorded 64 years ago today, on June 25, 1961 at the Village Vanguard. Bill Evans's great trio, with Scott La Faro & Paul Motian. Great music from the five sets the trio played that day. Bill's portrait on the cover is by Donald Silverstein youtube.com/watch?v=Hj_T...

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RIP Lea Massari; they’ll never find you now.

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Is it wrong to so enjoy that take down of an overrated writer in the LRB? No? Good, because that was a satisfying read this morning (as was, different reasons, Andrew O'Hagan's piece about Didion).

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

It is, indeed, hot enough for me.

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THIS IS A BRAD LANDER APPRECIATION POST He kept it real, he cross-endorsed, he made everyone see the BS of antisemitism claims, he threw everything he had against Cuomo like the penultimate hero in an action movie... No matter what happens next, I am filled with new admiration for Lander

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Wouldn’t it be nice.

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Grateful this morning, as ever, to look out upon the myriad harbor.

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anybody who's about to say NYC doesn't count because it's not "real America" (read: rural, conservative, just as fucked over as everybody else by this admin): as somebody from "real America" 8.258 million absolutely counts more than 8 or 5 or 2 thousand. sorry. welcome to the real world folks

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I like New York in June. How about you?

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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

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With apologies to LCD Soundsystem: New York, I love you, but you are NOT bringing me down.

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Like a scene out of some science fiction film... which is what we're living in, now.

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It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity. ~rim shot~

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Feeling as if I’ll be using “Our status is Tomb” in the near future.

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after much deliberation over my vote, i decided to rank andrew cuomo, under "who do you want to place into a small metal box and then banish that box to a lower dimension, living the rest of his or her life in a flat world, a torturous plane of existence." for comptroller i voted for mark levine

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Where have you gone, Lake Breeze? A city turns its sweaty brow to you.

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Delmore Schwartz

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Accurate.

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Just change the name from Supreme to Supremacist Court and get it over with.

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DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK

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Once, long ago and far away, I had sex for hours with this song on repeat in the background. I felt you should know.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A drop of good news.

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love this picture of a novelist sitting in on the poetry workshop

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A friend just made a World War III joke, and I said, Hey, it’s not WW III yet, and then a minute later I saw that Iran attacked bases in Qatar.

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This is great… except for that comma.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Any number of things to say; little energy or will to say them. Except for “Don’t rank Cuomo.”

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My Darling Clementine (1946), John Ford

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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

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I learned about the bombing last night just before going into my 40th high school reunion, and I suddenly remembered the first punk zine I ever saw, shown to my by a friend while we sat on the bleachers during gym class: it was called REAGAN DEATH.

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