#2, 1/1925
#2, 1/1925
“John , John . . .” Yoko Ono
45 years tonight💦
Remembering John — “When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience is still asleep.” John Lennon
Remembering John — “When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience is still asleep.” John Lennon
Remembering John — “When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience is still asleep.” John Lennon
Remembering John — “When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience is still asleep.” John Lennon
There’s rumors tailors have been hired.
The overwhelming influence of social media.
“- - nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.”
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
Callas and Pasolini impersonating.
He that can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
He that can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
“We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
Tom Stoppard
“Why, then, ‘tis none to you, for there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so”. Hamlet to R & G
“We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
Tom Stoppard
“Why, then, ‘tis none to you, for there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so”. Hamlet to R & G
@tribe-xx.bsky.social @adaspota.bsky.social @gilaay.bsky.social
Barbara Sukowa in Fassbinder’s Lola (1982)
Seems I’m unable to a pick winner. Top from Booker 2024 short list. Left to right: My pick, thought would be the winner and the winner. Bottom from 2025 short list in same sequence.
Seems I’m unable to a pick winner. Top from Booker 2024 short list. Left to right: My pick, thought would be the winner and the winner. Bottom from 2025 short list in same sequence.
If 5 Dems hadn’t relented, imagine how much more MAGAts would be scurrying tonight after today’s revelations.
Good Night
If 5 Dems hadn’t relented, imagine how much more MAGAts would be scurrying tonight after today’s revelations.
Good Night
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere. Rimbaud
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere. Rimbaud
Cinema history is the history of boys photographing girls. Goddard
Cinema history is the history of boys photographing girls. Goddard
Yo crinoid, soup got cold for a while. Thought I (we) lost ya. Outta touch. Must’ve been on a black ops errand. Glad yer back.
Without a sense of what should be, we cannot be clear about how what is could ever change.
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Yo crinoid, soup got cold for a while. Thought I (we) lost ya. Outta touch. Must’ve been on a black ops errand. Glad yer back.
BOTD 1941 Art Garfunkel “I’ve been singing since I was five. It’s my identity. . .I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.”
BOTD 1941 Art Garfunkel “I’ve been singing since I was five. It’s my identity. . .I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.”
Without a sense of what should be, we cannot be clear about how what is could ever change.
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
Without a sense of what should be, we cannot be clear about how what is could ever change.
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom
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I posted this 1/3/25 on X. As we approach dia di los muertos it appears to have become an epitaph. “So it goes.”
I posted this 1/3/25 on X. As we approach dia di los muertos it appears to have become an epitaph. “So it goes.”
I take my Camus neat.
Seems like years since I posted these 1/1/25.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau
The war that matters is the war against imagination—all other wars are subsumed
by it. Diane Di Prima
Revolutionary Letters, City Lights Books, 1971
Prefatory poem ⬇️ and Letters #1 & #2 follow in thread.
The war that matters is the war against imagination—all other wars are subsumed
by it. Diane Di Prima
Revolutionary Letters, City Lights Books, 1971
Prefatory poem ⬇️ and Letters #1 & #2 follow in thread.
The war that matters is the war against imagination—all other wars are subsumed
by it. Diane Di Prima
Revolutionary Letters, City Lights Books, 1971
Prefatory poem ⬇️ and Letters #1 & #2 follow in thread.