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Promiscuous Reader | Shade Grown | Tonsure Enthusiast | Haikus Made From Whatever I’m Reading
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Simple.
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READING DEPT: PROUST
The madeleine finally makes its appearance on page 47. Quite the orgasm!
"…I quivered, attentive to the extraordinary thing that was happening in me."
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I think journalists are either mediocre or thinking about a paycheck, and career longevity, so it’s rare to see any of them press hard on any topic. The censorious mood in press conferences is palpable.
That’s how totalitarians win. Tada!
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MY CELEBRITY AUTOBIO DEPT:
Told John C. Reilly he was AWESOME at a CA. Trader Joe’s. He recoiled. 🤷🏻♂️
Laura Linney and I once made significant eye contact on a NYC sidewalk. Her glance lingered on mine for an uncomfortable length of time. Mine too I guess.
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READING DEPT: PROUST
It’s here, and it’s good. The translator’s introduction anyway.
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Game was already over. This is just Trump’s follow-through.
There’s nothing anyone can do, and wouldn’t if they could.
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They’re already here, but they’re uglier, have shitty pitch, and are really cranky.
This is not going to end well.
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Aaron, stop with the optimism.
They’re not wrong, you know this, and they’re coming for us.
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This appears to be correct.
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I get why you’d want to call this out, but repeating every burp and fart coming from the Big Brother party is promoting their noise and adding to news fatigue, when other, less sexy, things need to be pointed out.
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This is correct.
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They didn’t fail, because they enabled it.
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#NewYorkCityPeople
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#NewYorkCityPeople
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#NewYorkCityPeople
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#NewYorkCityPeople
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#NewYorkCityPeople
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Not fiction; instruction manuals.
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So, the US is not just the bar now, but the whole neighborhood where the bar is located…do o have that right?
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Yes! Would love to. I’ll text you.
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It’s so good, isn’t it! One of the most joyous cinematic rides ever. The perfect neo-noir fairy tale.
Cast is stellar!
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WIKIPEDIA LITERARY LIVES:
Tōson Shimazaki, incest: "Shimazaki's niece Komako became pregnant as a result of the affair between the two. Shimazaki fled to France to avoid the confrontation with his relatives, abandoning the girl…"
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FAVORITE ARTISTS:
Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999)
'Eleanor, Chicago'
1948
Gelatin silver print
© The Estate of Harry Callahan. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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Garland will go down as of of the greatest mediocrities in American history.
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This needs to be said to all of my neighbors.
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READING DEPT: WARHOL, PHILOSOPHY
America is really The Beautiful [sic]. But it would be more beautiful if everybody had enough money to live.
-p. 71
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READING DEPT: WARHOL, PHILOSOPHY
If a person isn’t generally considered beautiful, they can still be a success if they have a few jokes in their pockets. And a lot of pockets.
-p. 67
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I’m going to ride like the wind to see it…maybe on a flight, between the moon and New York City would be ideal!
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T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT:
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T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT:
It’s cold out, and people are wearing coats, so I can’t do much t-shirt reading in public, but thank god for social media.
bsky.app/profile/slee...
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WIKIPEDIA LITERARY LIVES:
Theodore Dreiser, Avoiding Death on the Titanic: "Dreiser planned to return from his first European vacation on the Titanic, but was talked out of it by an English publisher who recommended he board a cheaper ship."
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Yes!
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I still miss the Moondance Diner, on a slow day. Opened in 1933 and closed in 2012 at 88 Sixth Avenue, between Grand Street and Canal Street. It will live on in mainly mediocre movies.
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And black people, POC, gays, trans, poets, readers of poetry, foreign film aficionados, artists, et al.
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The humble star ship C-57D, landing on the distant planet, Altair IV, in search of the lost Bellerophon mission.
There, they find its only surviving member, the philologist Dr. Edwin Morbius, and his daughter.
Tempestuous, Freudian shenanigans ensue.
From the 1956 film 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙩.
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WIKIPEDIA LITERARY LIVES:
Alison Lurie, Hearing: "Due to complications with a forceps delivery, she was born deaf in one ear and with damage to her facial muscles."
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WIKIPEDIA LITERARY LIVES:
Iris Murdoch, Cuckoldry: "[John] Bayley [Iris’s husband] thought that sex was "inescapably ridiculous". Murdoch in contrast had "multiple affairs with both men and women which, on discomposing occasions, [Bayley] witnessed for himself.""
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OVERHEARD DEPT:
#OverheardInNYC
This has gotten a lot better since I lived here.