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Architect, aphorist, Anaximandrist. Delirious ekphrast. MacDowell Fellow-in-Exile. “Unabridged paranoid hippy monologues.” CEO of Run-On Sentience Pictures. Mark Wright, FWIW, circling in my basin of ancient thoughts as if it had a drain.
Pinned
This is *the* book they are terrified their teenagers might be given to read. Chapter 4 is like something read into evidence at Nuremberg.
(I dare you. I **dare** you.)
I’ve started following a Staffy puppy-page on account of I don’t think I can stand much more of this.
(It’s puppies, or shoelaces and a doorknob.)
February 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
“Because you can’t get a turnip to bleed.” ——Steven Sondheim
February 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Had I been anyone I’d’ve known Patti Smith. On the other hand I’d’ve bored her to the point of murder, and here I am, so I guess I dodged a bullet
February 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Fatigue. What is this, now? (This?)
Fatigue. Nothing between me and the ink but a rippling skin of tin.
February 18, 2026 at 2:10 AM
What percentage of 🧊 agents have handy US birth certificates, or passports for that matter? They should be required to carry them everywhere as ID in addition to a name/number/agency nameplate worn prominently beneath their unmasked face. The SAVE act is d
undoing the Real-ID drivers license system.
February 17, 2026 at 4:03 PM
So many reasons in our time to revisit Robert Duvall’s masterpiece, The Apostle.
Sad today that there is another.

Double bill in re America:
Secret Honor (Altman as teaser)
The Apostle (Duvall as chaser)
February 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM
“Polis” means police in Swedish, but something bigger in Greek.
(Whoa. Cops wear penny-loafers in Stockholm??) Huzzah and hats away for the designer of this book.
All Day Permanent Red, by C. Logue. Photo by Paul Popper; jacket design by Jonathan D Lippincott
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
All Day Permanent Red
is hand-to-hand death in dust that’s been worked all along the ridge into a good batter. Watch for the pink tongue of the smiling dog—it’s all for him!—for Zeus’s teenage daughter, and the god’s Olympian boredom with monied sport.
February 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The sathan’s wristwatch is set to ten past ten.
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Oh, hey, it’s snowed
February 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Doubtless there’s an aisle of men on the Isle of Man
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Last year we went to the fabulous Archibald Knox exhibition at the Manx Museum in Douglas #IsleofMan #ArtsandCrafts
February 16, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Go see the humbling work of world-renowned architect Viollet-Le-Duc at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. Here is one of his tiny sketchbooks made—doubtless to his order!—with horizontal watermark guidelines.
The Notre-Dame de Paris that burned was in some ways his.
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
There may have been better organists at the time than J S Bach
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Last four.
sucked
really sucked
SIMPLY THE FREAKIN’ BEST
lovely thing, innit
February 13, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The other poem:
The Two Yvonnes
by Jessica Greenbaum
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The poem:
Dear Seymour Penn
by Robert Pack
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Presidents are raised like the flag at Iwo Jima: it’s a group effort, and what we remember of it was staged for the camera.
We’d best start now, or we’ll just be stuck with someone else’s old dreams and make the same life-or-☠️ mistakes. Who now? And why?
We put pirates in place last time.
🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️
February 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The cargo craft that will one day routinely shuttle twixt Earth and Moon would be called a Lunar Schooner if folk knew anything about sail power anymore
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
“Cameras are for people who want to let a *machine* do their Seeing for them.”
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(Or words to that effect, in French?)
—Le Corbusier(?)
February 12, 2026 at 11:46 PM
“Teenaged Athena”
All Day Permanent Red. Logue.
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
“I feel as old as yonder elm.” Jim wrote that. ALP said it. What was true for her is true for me.
February 11, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Lonely because we should be. I guess.
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I have seen a cumulonimbus cloud rise to its feet and speak
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Born #onthisday in Dublin in 1882, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. Celebrate with a listen to him reading his very own work (excerpts from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake) in two rare recordings from the 1920s: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/james-joyce-reading-his-work-1924-1929 #otd
February 2, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Based on his business plans we can aver that Elmo never saw the movie Gravity. What’s *wrong* with him it’s got Sandy Bullock in
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM