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If some men don’t read fiction it’s because they’re taught that reading is a waste of time, that it has no useful function—unlike, say, mowing the lawn or betting on MMA matches. Or, you know, reading is somehow a “feminine” endeavor to be avoided. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

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Some things never change.

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New motto:

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I’m day-drinking at a bar in Brooklyn. What book am I reading to indicate that I’m a card-carrying member of the intelligentsia? 1. Joan Didion - “The White Album” 2. Vladimir Nabokov - “Pale Fire” 3. Thomas Pynchon - “The Crying of Lot 49” 4. Saul Bellow - “Herzog” 5. Philip K. Dick - “Ubik”

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Folks, thrilled to announce that I finally graduated from high school today. Looking forward to all the wonderful things in my future!

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Listen, I hope that I’m wrong here, but it’s only a matter of time before Trum* and his bloodthirsty goons refer to the protests in LA as “an insurrection” (oh, the irony) and start firing on people who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Tear gas > flash-bang grenades > live rounds

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Takeshi Kitano’s “Violent Cop” is about, yes, a violent cop who stretches professional and ethical boundaries, but it’s also about the deep moral rot that runs through our most basic of institutions, eating away at society to the point where the line between “good” and “bad” is blurred.

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One of the best things about teaching Romeo + Juliet to teenagers is that they up understanding the story using their own terms: Student 1 (as Balthazar): “Shawty in a better hood now. 🕊️ 🙏 ✝️💀🪦” Student 2 (as Romeo): “Oh, word? I’m gonna hop in my whip and go find shawty, uno nunca sabe. 🐎 💔”

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Made myself chuckle at the thought of a Trum* presidential library. What would be in it? Dozens of copies of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”? Files related to various divorce proceedings? What other items would fill the shelves at such a place?

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The Human Condition, #27: So much wonderful music to discover and experience, but never enough time to enjoy it all.

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This is the funniest paragraph I’ve ever read in the Times (or anywhere else, frankly).

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“He was writing poems about bees, sex poems with pollen and stamens and pistils, bees sexing their flowers, sexing their queen, jelly and nectar and death in midair. He’d read them to me in his truck in the parking lot of the lake where we swam.” www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/f...

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The latest painting—how does he do it?—by Shawn Theodore: “Lil Bit with Collards,” mixed media, 30x40”. On display to the public starting tomorrow at Future Fair 2025, NYC. futurefairs.com

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When teachers realize that there are more than 30 days left in the school year.

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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through obedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." -Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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“Just a little lovin’, early in the morning, beats a cup of coffee for starting off the day…” m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgW...

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The only correct answer is James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans,” one of the single-worst books ever written, in any language, during any period of time, in any known universe. I will be taking no further questions on this matter.

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It is wonderful news that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released, but the stain of his incarceration will forever remain on this country, which continues to backslide into authoritarianism. Gift link below. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

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In what feels like an altogether different stage of grief, I’m finally combing through my dad’s record collection, combining it with my own. These songs, some of which I haven’t heard in decades, ring anew, and he is home again, and we are reconnected, and he is free of the pain that killed him.

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I’m neither a historian nor a constitutional scholar, but it seems that we’re in a major crisis that seems to be getting worse by the day.

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One of my favorite discoveries of new music is Corridor, a Francophone band from Canada, whose songs lean towards jingle-jangle pop, but also have some interesting psych elements. If interested, be the first to use the download code below for their fantastic third album, “Junior.” Enjoy!

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Bootlickers are going to lick those boots, but the level of self-delusion here is astounding. Gift link below: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The whole “it’s possible to separate art from the artist” discourse is tired, but it’s worth repeating that it’s not okay to listen to music made by rapists and abusers—thereby normalizing their behavior—and paying them (!) every time you stream a song.

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Yeah, pretty much. (Cartoon by Paul Noth, via The New Yorker.)

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How are readers of the New York Times—and legacy media in general—supposed to make sense of the world when even the pundit class can’t make up its own mind?

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Many thanks to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for publishing my new poem, “Liberation Song,” in Stone Circle Review. Stoked to join so many fine writers in this journal. 🙏

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How to read a poem properly

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The release of new music by Stereolab—the first in fifteen years!—is always cause for celebration. The lead single, “Aerial Troubles,” smokes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg69...

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This used to be a proper country, one that didn’t ask such stupid questions. (The answer is an unequivocal “yes.”)

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These are but some of the songs that are helping me get through the End Times: The Damned - “Stranger On the Town” Scowl - “Not Heaven, Not Hell” Iggy Pop - “Don’t Look Down” Fleetwood Mac - “That’s Alright”

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0-1: Infancy 1-4: Toddlerhood 5-12: Childhood 13-19: Teenage years 20-30: Young adulthood 30-65: Fleetwood Mac Era

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I’ve always said that Wall Street is not the economy, but anyone can see that none of ✨ this ✨ can amount to anything good.

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