The need for zoos to stock exhibits is often in conflict with conservation, as not all zoo animals are bred in captivity.

So maybe targeting food dye is a red herring?

I’m a Luddite at heart, but it is revolutionary to be able to argue with AI in Spanish (to practice Spanish) about whether Fredric Jameson romanticizes the art of the past by denigrating the art of the present as commercial.

Why did the grand watchmaker withhold from humans the horse’s ability to drink and breathe simultaneously??

BORDERline behavior of Vanity Fair writer casting himself into the role of Cormac McCarthy (prose, guns, horses) down to the “thousands of hours” he spent with his “muse” in 9 months, which has only 6,480 hours.

Western-hero (cliched) domains of excellence:

1. guns, horses, sexuality

2. fighting, tolerance, roping

3. Spanish, engines, fiddle

The article about Cormac & Britt positions her at the first level. I'm half-surprised Barney didn't claim she can shoot a smiley face in a tin of Copenhagen.

Perhaps not surprising that Cormac McCarthy's reclusiveness was not all about the virtue and marketing of the enigma but a strategic motivation of the legal.

Romanticism is just a longing for the non-anthropomorphic.

Go ahead and tell me our 4yo didn't finger paint a diver in a submersible suit! (And someone please kill off AI art.)

Best of the Net Rankings for prose. Near the top: @therumpus.bsky.social, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, @passagesnorth.bsky.social

www.davidmcdannald.com/best-of-the-...

I updated my nonfiction rankings for magazines and journals. Hope you find it to be a useful tool.

www.davidmcdannald.com/the-rankings

The more journals we keep from closing, the stronger all journals will be. @gettysburgreview.bsky.social

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…one is a writer as Louis XIV was king, even on the commode.

Roland Barthes

We are in this techno-scientific world like Gulliver: sometimes too big, sometimes too small, never at the right scale. – Lyotard

"A friend and I were arguing about Freud and I said, 'My problem with Freud is he suffers the problem of misplaced concreteness. He thinks the mind is in your head.' My friend said, 'Where do you think Mind is if it’s not in your head?' And I said, 'Here. Between us.'" - JM Bernstein

I guess it's a parental right of passage to have the Frozen soundtrack stuck in your head.

Moving to Massachusetts has filled a library of small miracles, this one a 2,000-pager left last week by someone at our town transfer station (the dump).

“If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”

I’m thrilled to have an essay up at @pinchjournal.bsky.social. It’s an exploration of war and identity that details an attempt to understand my grandfather, who carried an impenetrable silence (save for the occasional outrageous line).
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