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I make a weekly podcast feat. talks w/writers, artists, cartoonists & other culture-making people, at https://chimeraobscura.com/vm Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod
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New #podcast! #PaulKarasik rejoins the show from @yaddocommunity.bsky.social to celebrate THE NEW YORK TRILOGY, his graphic adaptation of #PaulAuster (with #DavidMazzuchelli & #LorenzoMattotti)! We talk #comics, #storytelling, #art, & a LOT more, so GO LISTEN! chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

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@DrFrankSauer.bsky.social raves in @WarOnTheRocks.bsky.social about my novel A CAPITAL CALAMITY: "a sharp, funny, and fast-paced political thriller ...darkly hilarious." www.amazon.com/Capital-Cala...

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“I seem to have been designed as a machine for the relentless devaluation of life! I want to be different for once!” Ulrich retorted. —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

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NUTS SACKED

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FUCK YEAH PISTACHIOS FTW www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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100 degrees F in DC today, so linen suit & lightweight polo for today’s onshoring roundtable.

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Podcast is gonna be a day late; I'm in Washington, DC for business and haven't had time to edit, record an intro, etc. But it's a good one — Paul Karasik about adapting Paul Auster's New York Trilogy! Recorded at Yaddo! — so it'll be worth a day's wait.

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Help out @summerpierre.bsky.social & her family: gofund.me/b03e199c

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GIVE

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This will go under most folks' radar, but trust me; it's not a good sign endpoints.news/acting-cder-...

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we are all so tired www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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So, if you'd like to commission or solicit a poem from me, now would be a good time! The smol god of thunder still has one follow-up appointment, and I need to start replenishing his Vet Fund.

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UPDATE: turns out I wrote a bunch of entries longhand over the last few months that I'd yet to type up and check off on The Great Spreadsheet as "written-ish," so kindasorta even more progress.

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you could buy a book today it will be mailed tomorrow fits in a pocket & expands your mind (thunder rumbles overhead) The Private Life of Books temporary-culture.com/product/the-...

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New linky-newsletter! There's a LOT going on in the world, so maybe take a little break and check out the links, the pix, BIRDY, and more? GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

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I read the news, and it breaks my heart. It feels like there is no break from it. Just one awful thing after another. War and stupidity and assholes. Cruelty and righteousness that almost never leads to anything good. Again and again, my heart cracks open. 1/?

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A memorial visitation from spectral raptors, date night at a protest, ancient faces and footprints, and a weird walk with Euell Gibbons, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/summer-gho...

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“Wanting to live for another person is no more than egoism going bankrupt and then opening a new shop next door, with a partner!” —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2

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SGA would need to score EIGHTY-THREE points in game 7 to break Jerry West’s record. While that WOULD be “paramount,” this feels like a sign that this sports writer either doesn’t understand math or adjectives. From: andscape.com/features/one...

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On the one and the many: a story in a parade and demonstrations. petertrachtenberg.substack.com/p/from-the-m...

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(Don’t tell anyone, but I’m making progress on my book)

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Birdy is the classiest girl

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www.brushwoodmedianetwork.com/onair/cover-... tomorrow 9am PST 12pm EST! @runningwildllc.bsky.social

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New #Shelfies alert! This week, we have @zenaldehyde.bsky.social on Lat, Lord, Basu and Mitchison! Remember you can subscribe for a free weekly shelfie straight in your inbox! Or follow us on our ever-growing Instagram page.

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You've got mail!

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some recent photo scans over at my blog jamellebouie.net/blog/2025/6/...

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view during morning walkies

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New newsletter, incl. a weird Flannery O'Connor moment at a biotech trade show, so GO READ! buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

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