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Not gonna read that.

“Your bargaining posture is highly dubious” youtu.be/hzNsOGt3bHk?...

you can be the president I’d rather be the pope youtu.be/HUpBCH5dpAE?...

youtu.be/HUpBCH5dpAE?...

1. Captain Ahab 🐳 2. Uh… 😬 3. Wilbur 😭

I wrote about my old friend Joshua Clover: elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/so-blue-co...

Joshua Clover had arguably the best Twitter handle ever: Shruggie Otis.

The thought of what America, The thought of what America, The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation . . . Oh well! It troubles my sleep.

🎶HEY EVERYBODY’S FRRREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!🎶

2011!

one of the greatest letterman performances AND one of the great (greatest?) rock songs of the 2000s youtu.be/SlHrCg67axw?...

James Evans:

The grotesque.

Can’t order ebooks from B&N in my region. The 😈 is real.

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vibe

I'd open every cell in Attica, send 'em to Africa.

Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording. (I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)

Full text of my 2019 Vargas Llosa review patrickiber.org/2019/04/16/t...

Mario Vargas Llosa has died at 89. In 2019, I wrote a review of an essay collection of his for The Nation which has disappeared from the web, so I'll share it here. It's not a bad obituary. It ended: [full pages to follow]

May not come when you want but he’s always right on time… www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/39360/...

Watched RaMell Ross’ documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”. Will have to rewatch but can definitely recommend it.

Sky’s the limit.

went heavy into bonds 🤷 music.apple.com/us/album/nea...

Things gang aft agley; the center cannae hold

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some professional news

"Even artists who lean towards the conceptual tend to have had fine art training, and possess some manual facility. But Deller was kicked out of his school art class aged 12 for incompetence." An utterly charming profile of Jeremy Deller by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

Oh boy…

As usual, I have escaped because of my standing policy of ignoring anyone who uses the term “woke” as part of a critique. At that point, they’ve told you that they haven’t put thought into this, so why should you?