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November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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"Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery."

Hart Crane “Letters, 1916-1932”

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Hart Crane
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Books I've read in the past few months ...

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan, the final book (and my favorite) of the Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn trilogy.

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Book cover of My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan
October 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Richard Bach:
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

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Richard Bach
October 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Our Hyacinth has passed away. 😥 RIP Dame Patricia Routledge
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 3
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...
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October 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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W. Somerset Maugham:
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

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W. Somerset Maugham
September 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Books I've read in the past few months ... the moving and beautifully written novel Grief by Andrew Holleran

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Cover of Grief by Andrew Holleran
September 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Joy Division "Atmosphere"

Walk in silence
Don't walk away, in silence
See the danger
Always danger

Endless talking
Life rebuilding
Don't walk away

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Photomof the band Joy Division: Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Peter Hook
September 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have you found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

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Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
September 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Charles Bukowski:
"I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, 'crazy.' But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there."
(Ham On Rye)

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Charles Bukowski
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11

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Photo of the sky to commemorate 9/11
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Star Trek was everything to me growing up. Mr. Spock was my hero. 🖖
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 8
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
September 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Franz Kafka:
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

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Franz Kafka
September 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Christopher Coe (1953.11.27–1994.09.06) wrote two novels: I Look Divine (1987), a brilliant tale about the fragility of beauty and vanity, and Such Times (1993), a beautiful, heart-breaking semi-autobiographical story about a love affair cut short by the AIDS virus.

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Photo of Christopher Coe (1987) by Thomas Victor
September 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Oscar Wilde:
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
[The Picture of Dorian Gray]

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Oscar Wilde
September 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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James Baldwin:
"One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."

(Notes of a Native Son 1955)

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James Baldwin
September 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Truman Capote:
"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

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Truman Capote
August 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Books I've read in the past few months ...
Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan, entertaining second novel about gay friends Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn.

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Book cover of Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan
August 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Albert Camus:
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

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Albert Camus
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Edna St. Vincent Millay:
"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."

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Edna St. Vincent Millay
August 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Dorothy Parker:
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

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Dorothy Parker
August 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Books I've read in the past few months ... one of my favorites and a very entertaining movie, as well
Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund @boyculture.bsky.social

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Cover of Boy Culture
August 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Sylvia Plath:
"I love my rejection slips. They show me I try."

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Sylvia Plath
August 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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E.E. Cummings:
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

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E.E. Cummings
August 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Thoughts on rejection...

Henry Rollins: "Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."

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Henry Rollins
August 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM