Anastasia Miller
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Anastasia Miller
@akmskylarking.bsky.social
Artist, designer, editor
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In case you missed it in the obituary: In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Classical Theatre of Harlem, where Braugher served on the board.

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem | Kindful
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December 13, 2023 at 1:45 AM
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I saw Mr Braugher in a play in a small off-Broadway theater many years ago, and his talent was ferocious. What a tremendous and terrible loss.

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December 13, 2023 at 2:09 AM
He was absolutely stellar actor and should have been around so much longer than this.
December 13, 2023 at 3:00 AM
Memory, history, wayfinding, poetry—a transcendently lovely piece. It touches on the particular nostalgia we feel for lost places. I've feel that acutely now, as favorite landmarks are razed and my city of 35 years feels less familiar to me.

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An Intimate Cartography of Costa Rica in “Direcciones”
In María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse’s short film, addresses suggest an alternative understanding of space and time.
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December 6, 2023 at 6:42 PM
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a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
A letter to our readers
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December 5, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Years ago I was a bartender; many of the waitstaff were working thru grad school. Few had even a droplet of common sense. Favorite question ever was "How do you garnish wine/a beer?" SO tempted to let them put whipped cream & cherries on the pints of Bud for Table 3.
We once hired a woman who had a master's degree in performance violin. She didn't know how to use a rake.
Let me put it a different way. Assume you run a business. Do you want to hire someone who cannot read and write at a college level?
December 3, 2023 at 11:35 PM
Yes! I love it and so many 70s films—I (mostly) prefer them to 80s/90s when things got aspirational(?). Wardrobe was ordinary; people got noticeably sweaty; clothes/hair got messy; chases/fights were scarier because they felt riskier pre-CGI (e.g. French Connection vs Bourne series).
There’s so much to love about 1974’s “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three”. One of them is how wonderfully ordinary everyone looks. It’s such a relief. There’s a tyranny of beauty in so many modern movies. Beautiful people, beautiful bodies. It’s as exhausting as it’s alienating.
December 3, 2023 at 10:56 PM
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If you would like to do a small thing to help undo the mark that Henry Kissinger left on the world, I recommend a donation to the HALO Trust, which was working to de-mine Cambodia when I visited in 2002. The work continues today, and will for years to come. www.halousa.org/where-we-wor...
Clearing Landmines & Making Land Safe In Cambodia
Landmines have had a devastating impact on the people of Cambodia. Find out how HALO is helping to make land safe so families can rebuild their lives.
www.halousa.org
November 30, 2023 at 4:04 AM
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say war criminal challenge
November 30, 2023 at 3:21 AM
How I look to Gen Z
November 7, 2023 at 3:05 AM
QT ten of your favorite novels:

The Bean Trees, Kingsolver
The Boy Kings of Texas, Martinez
[...] Kavalier and Klay, Chabon
The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
The Shipping News, Proulx
Thief of Time, Pratchett
Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz
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QT 10 of your favorite novels

Ward, Salvage the Bones
Hazzard, Transit of Venus
Ulitskaya, Jacob’s Ladder
Ginzburg, All of Our Yesterdays
Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Mantel, Mirror and the Light
Manning, Fortunes of War
Hughes, Fox in the Attic
Farrell, Troubles
Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson
Moby-Dick / Melville
Wuthering Heights / Bronte
My Antonia / Willa Cather
Go Tell It on the Mountain / Baldwin
Middlemarch / George Eliot
Love Medicine / Louise Erdrich
Street of Crocodiles / Bruno Schulz
The Summer Book / Tove Jansson
True Grit / Charles Portis
November 5, 2023 at 7:55 PM
So indulgent!
Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door
November 1, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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Been seeing reports of kids coming home with Ornette Coleman records so please make sure you check your children’s candy to protect them from free jazz.
October 31, 2023 at 9:41 PM
The danger is real, kids. 🎃
Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.
October 31, 2023 at 11:22 PM
Quote skeet with a picture of street graffiti from your phone (Atlanta, 2023)
October 24, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Using an image, show a movie you're sure you've seen ten times. (This is an all-time favorite).
September 10, 2023 at 1:10 PM