Jack Long
@coltrane21.bsky.social
Left the X cesspool for blue skies. Bookstore and jazz junkie. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain.
Did any reporter call out this lying bitch?
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Did any reporter call out this lying bitch?
This book pretty much epitomizes everything I love about reading Johm Edgar Wideman. His sentences can be like atom bombs. He's one of the great prose stylists and, except by the coterie of those of us who idolize him, is woefully unknown and underappreciated. #booksky
February 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This book pretty much epitomizes everything I love about reading Johm Edgar Wideman. His sentences can be like atom bombs. He's one of the great prose stylists and, except by the coterie of those of us who idolize him, is woefully unknown and underappreciated. #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (4/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
February 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (4/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
Happy Birthday James Joyce.
"The soul has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
"The soul has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
February 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Happy Birthday James Joyce.
"The soul has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
"The soul has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (3/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (3/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
"Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves." - Remembering Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1901.
Drawing by Keith Henry Brown.
Drawing by Keith Henry Brown.
February 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves." - Remembering Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1901.
Drawing by Keith Henry Brown.
Drawing by Keith Henry Brown.
Always had a soft spot in my heart for card catalogs. These can be found tucked away in corners of Central Library in downtown Portland, Oregon. 📚
January 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Always had a soft spot in my heart for card catalogs. These can be found tucked away in corners of Central Library in downtown Portland, Oregon. 📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (2/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
January 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (2/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (1/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
January 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (1/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky
Are we great again yet?
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Are we great again yet?
"My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of the earth." - Edward Abbey
January 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of the earth." - Edward Abbey
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do."
Wendell Berry is a national treasure. #booksky
Wendell Berry is a national treasure. #booksky
January 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do."
Wendell Berry is a national treasure. #booksky
Wendell Berry is a national treasure. #booksky
Sunday Morning service. A brilliant and evocative appreciation of the life and legacy of turn-of-the-19th century African-American musician-painter-writer-scientist George Washington Carver. #jazzsky
January 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sunday Morning service. A brilliant and evocative appreciation of the life and legacy of turn-of-the-19th century African-American musician-painter-writer-scientist George Washington Carver. #jazzsky
Finished this account of Rushdie's brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed. A great reminder of the threats the free world faces, and the things worth fighting for. #booksky
January 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Finished this account of Rushdie's brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed. A great reminder of the threats the free world faces, and the things worth fighting for. #booksky
Sure Donny. Unemployment at 4.1%, Gas here in my neck of the woods at $2.89 a gallon, 2024 marked the second consecutive year the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose more than 20%, a feat not seen since 1997-1998, DJ at 43,487.83. Keep gaslighting.
January 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Sure Donny. Unemployment at 4.1%, Gas here in my neck of the woods at $2.89 a gallon, 2024 marked the second consecutive year the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose more than 20%, a feat not seen since 1997-1998, DJ at 43,487.83. Keep gaslighting.
Morning coffee with Oliver Sacks. To read these letters is to be reminded of the deeply felt humanism and ebullience that Sacks brought to his prose. The best part of this collection though is that there isn’t a shred of cynicism or pessimism to be found. #booksky
January 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Morning coffee with Oliver Sacks. To read these letters is to be reminded of the deeply felt humanism and ebullience that Sacks brought to his prose. The best part of this collection though is that there isn’t a shred of cynicism or pessimism to be found. #booksky
Grace under pressure. A mini-masterpiece.
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. #booksky
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. #booksky
January 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Grace under pressure. A mini-masterpiece.
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. #booksky
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. #booksky
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal
🖌Andrew Wyeth - Monologue, 1965
🖌Andrew Wyeth - Monologue, 1965
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal
🖌Andrew Wyeth - Monologue, 1965
🖌Andrew Wyeth - Monologue, 1965