Marie Phillips
@mariephillips.bsky.social
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
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I think when everyone reaches adulthood they should be assigned a glamorous new name like actresses in old Hollywood. Goodbye Marie Phillips, hello Mimi Bonsoir
Dorothy Lamour by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer, 1945. (Thread)
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I think when everyone reaches adulthood they should be assigned a glamorous new name like actresses in old Hollywood. Goodbye Marie Phillips, hello Mimi Bonsoir
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“Only one woman author—not as famous as Capote—equaled the power of his 1947 photograph: Jane Bowles in Karl Bissinger‘s portrait, taken in 1946 to accompany a story of hers that appeared in Harper‘s Bazaar.” — Hilton Als, The Women, WHITE GIRLS (p109) *Loving this book.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Only one woman author—not as famous as Capote—equaled the power of his 1947 photograph: Jane Bowles in Karl Bissinger‘s portrait, taken in 1946 to accompany a story of hers that appeared in Harper‘s Bazaar.” — Hilton Als, The Women, WHITE GIRLS (p109) *Loving this book.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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I would quite like his high-collared winter overcoat. And those natty little yellow gloves.
The Orange Fruit Dove decorates the treetops with its flame-like plumage. This species lives in forests on the islands of Fiji, where it munches on fruits and berries. Only males display bold orange plumage; females are green.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I would quite like his high-collared winter overcoat. And those natty little yellow gloves.
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Ok this is fucking charming, and I want more politicians to shop in charity shops. So long as they don't raid all the good stuff :p
A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Ok this is fucking charming, and I want more politicians to shop in charity shops. So long as they don't raid all the good stuff :p
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There is only Denis, Miss Parrott and me. We all get along very well. Miss Tomb is away, has been since January. I've been planting cabbages this past week.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
There is only Denis, Miss Parrott and me. We all get along very well. Miss Tomb is away, has been since January. I've been planting cabbages this past week.
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Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
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November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Sam Shepard and the iconic ending of Paris, Texas:
The story of how 'Paris, Texas' almost ended differently
Wim Wenders' 1984 masterpiece 'Paris, Texas' could've ended differently if not for the director's pleas for Sam Shephard to help him finish the screenplay.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sam Shepard and the iconic ending of Paris, Texas:
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Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
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I wish you success in whatever you do.
📸 It Is a Cat
📸 It Is a Cat
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wish you success in whatever you do.
📸 It Is a Cat
📸 It Is a Cat
I don’t know about precisely my age, but: Taylor Swift. I barely know any of her songs and what I’ve heard I’ve found utterly banal, with embarrassingly teenage lyrics, even if she was over thirty when she wrote it. And yet just yesterday I saw an article comparing her to Sylvia Plath. SYLVIA PLATH.
What is your biggest musical blindspot for someone precisely your age?
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I don’t know about precisely my age, but: Taylor Swift. I barely know any of her songs and what I’ve heard I’ve found utterly banal, with embarrassingly teenage lyrics, even if she was over thirty when she wrote it. And yet just yesterday I saw an article comparing her to Sylvia Plath. SYLVIA PLATH.
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Watching Murders In the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932) and marvelling at the cute little ape letterhead on the writing paper of Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), Dr. Mirakle who is abducting women and injecting them with ape blood in order to create a mate for his murderous sideshow ape. Pre Code, yes.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Watching Murders In the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932) and marvelling at the cute little ape letterhead on the writing paper of Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), Dr. Mirakle who is abducting women and injecting them with ape blood in order to create a mate for his murderous sideshow ape. Pre Code, yes.
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BBC News doorstepping the BBC News boss outside BBC Broadcasting House
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
BBC News doorstepping the BBC News boss outside BBC Broadcasting House
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Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
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Tim Robinson's work contains many such fedora warnings: youtu.be/1B_uPF0rCls?...
The Driving Crooner
YouTube video by Yours Daily
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November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tim Robinson's work contains many such fedora warnings: youtu.be/1B_uPF0rCls?...
Glorious Peter Falk interview. Every word a joy.
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Glorious Peter Falk interview. Every word a joy.
Men feeling inspired by the FIFTEEN YEAR OLD Louvre Fedora boy, be very careful.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Men feeling inspired by the FIFTEEN YEAR OLD Louvre Fedora boy, be very careful.
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The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving
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You might enjoy these quotes from Falk talking in general about Columbo's "reaching into pockets" business. (In that same interview he told me about directing "Blueprint for Murder" and getting help from Cassavetes and Spielberg.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You might enjoy these quotes from Falk talking in general about Columbo's "reaching into pockets" business. (In that same interview he told me about directing "Blueprint for Murder" and getting help from Cassavetes and Spielberg.)
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November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Why hello new follower! I’d love to have a strictly business convo about [whatever fucking bullshit you are flogging] with you!
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Okay, I haven't been able to get the intrusive thought out of my head of Victor and the Creature beginning to break into a dying wheezy voice/gravely monster voice duet version of "Cat's in the Cradle" at the end of the '25 Frankenstein.
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Okay, I haven't been able to get the intrusive thought out of my head of Victor and the Creature beginning to break into a dying wheezy voice/gravely monster voice duet version of "Cat's in the Cradle" at the end of the '25 Frankenstein.
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I for one am blaming my year 7 PE teacher for not teaching me that fitness at the age of 11 could be maintained by pleasurable activity rather than cross country in gym knickers by the A46 to Grimsby, being honked at by haulage drivers, in seemingly eternal December rain.
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I for one am blaming my year 7 PE teacher for not teaching me that fitness at the age of 11 could be maintained by pleasurable activity rather than cross country in gym knickers by the A46 to Grimsby, being honked at by haulage drivers, in seemingly eternal December rain.
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Now, this is what we should be doing - it would solve so many of the problems for artists in the UK at the moment, not least the ever-increasing and deeply unfair class divide.
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme follows a successful pilot set up in 2022 to help Ireland’s arts and culture sector to recover from Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
musiciansunion.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Now, this is what we should be doing - it would solve so many of the problems for artists in the UK at the moment, not least the ever-increasing and deeply unfair class divide.
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...