Peter Blair
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Here because of addict behavior
“Brief Encounter” (1945) is a great example of why we need more 90 minute movies set significantly in train stations
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“Brief Encounter” (1945) is a great example of why we need more 90 minute movies set significantly in train stations
“While King Louis’s austerity came from his genuine piety, Charles’s was an instrument to gratify his longing for power. His piety was in its way genuine, but it chiefly took the form of a belief that he was the chosen instrument of God”
-Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers
-Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“While King Louis’s austerity came from his genuine piety, Charles’s was an instrument to gratify his longing for power. His piety was in its way genuine, but it chiefly took the form of a belief that he was the chosen instrument of God”
-Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers
-Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers
Tony Judt on the only lecture by Leszek Kołakowski he ever attended
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Tony Judt on the only lecture by Leszek Kołakowski he ever attended
A poem for All Souls’ Day from Jane Kenyon
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A poem for All Souls’ Day from Jane Kenyon
"Paris, Texas" is a Thanksgiving movie
November 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"Paris, Texas" is a Thanksgiving movie
Reposted by Peter Blair
Once again in the turning of the year we have made it—to the best month of the year
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Once again in the turning of the year we have made it—to the best month of the year
Reposted by Peter Blair
Surprise — Katie and Allison Crutchfield's new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook is called Snocaps, and their debut album is out now:
Katie & Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, & Brad Cook Are Snocaps — Hear Their Surprise Debut Album
We knew something was afoot, we just didn’t know we’d be getting so much of it so quickly.
www.stereogum.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Surprise — Katie and Allison Crutchfield's new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook is called Snocaps, and their debut album is out now:
Happy Halloween youtu.be/Wp_JUkP2FUc?...
M.J. Lenderman + Ryan Davis cover Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" at Union Transfer in Philly
YouTube video by John Vettese
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy Halloween youtu.be/Wp_JUkP2FUc?...
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this is my new halloween album. creaky toy-keyboard soundscapes, odd samples, funny voices, tape hiss, it's all here
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/childr...
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/childr...
Children of Reverb Mountain, by Dragon Warrior
12 track album
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
this is my new halloween album. creaky toy-keyboard soundscapes, odd samples, funny voices, tape hiss, it's all here
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/childr...
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/childr...
It's a great week to give good gifts one to another and peace, joy, and comfort gladly bestow
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's a great week to give good gifts one to another and peace, joy, and comfort gladly bestow
Marjorie Taylor Greene and John Fetterman enter the ring…only one will emerge victorious
October 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene and John Fetterman enter the ring…only one will emerge victorious
David Bentley Hart in 2013 (from “The Experience of God”):
“[Belief in “strong AI” arises when] like Narcissus bent above the waters, we look down at our creations and, captivated by what we see reflected in them, imagine that another gaze has met our own”
“[Belief in “strong AI” arises when] like Narcissus bent above the waters, we look down at our creations and, captivated by what we see reflected in them, imagine that another gaze has met our own”
October 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
David Bentley Hart in 2013 (from “The Experience of God”):
“[Belief in “strong AI” arises when] like Narcissus bent above the waters, we look down at our creations and, captivated by what we see reflected in them, imagine that another gaze has met our own”
“[Belief in “strong AI” arises when] like Narcissus bent above the waters, we look down at our creations and, captivated by what we see reflected in them, imagine that another gaze has met our own”
Brodernism is back, baybee
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Brodernism is back, baybee
“The house agent was in no way legally bound to mention the poltergeist, though he perhaps alluded to it in the phrase /usual period atmosphere/” -Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
October 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“The house agent was in no way legally bound to mention the poltergeist, though he perhaps alluded to it in the phrase /usual period atmosphere/” -Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
“It is that universal and primordial human experience of simple wonder at the being of things to which all true philosophy is ultimately answerable” -David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“It is that universal and primordial human experience of simple wonder at the being of things to which all true philosophy is ultimately answerable” -David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God
Reposted by Peter Blair
Considering the possibility of offering subscription based online courses independently in the near future. Would anyone be interested in this? And if so, what kind of course would you be interested in taking?
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Considering the possibility of offering subscription based online courses independently in the near future. Would anyone be interested in this? And if so, what kind of course would you be interested in taking?
Chuckling again at the time DBH was like “I have an immensely grave thing to say tomorrow and I am preparing you in advance in the anxious hope you will be scandalized by it” and the thing was that he didn’t enjoy going to church very much
October 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Chuckling again at the time DBH was like “I have an immensely grave thing to say tomorrow and I am preparing you in advance in the anxious hope you will be scandalized by it” and the thing was that he didn’t enjoy going to church very much
This ruled. Wodehouse meets Iannucci meets the Shirley Hazzard of “People in Glass Houses”
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This ruled. Wodehouse meets Iannucci meets the Shirley Hazzard of “People in Glass Houses”
“Captain Segura squeezed out a smile. It seemed to come from the wrong place like toothpaste when the tube splits.” -Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“Captain Segura squeezed out a smile. It seemed to come from the wrong place like toothpaste when the tube splits.” -Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
A deceased Philly lawyer found to have owned ~100,000 books, including "The Quantum Theory of Fields, Manual of Vascular Plants, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, The Art of Dying Well, Ulysses, Why Bob Dylan Matters, & Leading a Human Life." share.inquirer.com/k0b8YG
A Delancey Street townhouse filled with 100,000 books is a bibliophile’s dream — and an epic estate sale
The amazing athenaeum of a modern-day Renaissance man who lived in Rittenhouse Square will be part of an upcoming estate sale from Sales by Helen.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A deceased Philly lawyer found to have owned ~100,000 books, including "The Quantum Theory of Fields, Manual of Vascular Plants, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, The Art of Dying Well, Ulysses, Why Bob Dylan Matters, & Leading a Human Life." share.inquirer.com/k0b8YG
Graham Greene channeling Wodehouse: “One can’t successfully follow St. Paul’s technique of being all things to all men without a change of suit” (From “Our Man in Havana”)
September 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Graham Greene channeling Wodehouse: “One can’t successfully follow St. Paul’s technique of being all things to all men without a change of suit” (From “Our Man in Havana”)
I wish we had a million more of her short newspaper columns for The Concord Monitor collected in here
September 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I wish we had a million more of her short newspaper columns for The Concord Monitor collected in here
Reposted by Peter Blair
And then @peterblair.bsky.social on…the ends of life? peterblair.substack.com/p/a-friday-f...
A Friday Florilegium
“The purpose of human living is to live with each other, and if this involves living in friendship, so that the good life for human animals is one in which friendship is fostered and preserved, this i...
peterblair.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And then @peterblair.bsky.social on…the ends of life? peterblair.substack.com/p/a-friday-f...