Black Vines
@epicharmus.bsky.social
Exhausting veteran of 27 years' worth of internet. I still invented liveblogging.
To my delight, my alma mater recently instituted a Master of Middle Eastern Classics program to complement its Eastern Classics and undergraduate Great Books programs and fuck it, I'm-a gonna do all the readings on my own just like I did with the MAEC: www.sjc.edu/academic-pro...
Graduate Institute Eastern Classics Reading List | St. John's College
The St. John's College Eastern Classics Graduate Program allows master's students to explore great works of the East, including works in Sanskrit & Chinese.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To my delight, my alma mater recently instituted a Master of Middle Eastern Classics program to complement its Eastern Classics and undergraduate Great Books programs and fuck it, I'm-a gonna do all the readings on my own just like I did with the MAEC: www.sjc.edu/academic-pro...
Have you ever idly looked through a stock photo site and stumbled upon a picture of the man to whom you lost your virginity? I did last night! I don't even remember his name!
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Have you ever idly looked through a stock photo site and stumbled upon a picture of the man to whom you lost your virginity? I did last night! I don't even remember his name!
Using the discography at the end of Nate Chinen's *Playing Changes* as a mere jumping-off point, this year I've been methodically exploring 21st century jazz, and yes, I've made a spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Using the discography at the end of Nate Chinen's *Playing Changes* as a mere jumping-off point, this year I've been methodically exploring 21st century jazz, and yes, I've made a spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
"Are you supposed to be Keith Hernandez?" Siiiigh. The kids don't know.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"Are you supposed to be Keith Hernandez?" Siiiigh. The kids don't know.
Good Reasons for Stubbornness: THE METS; the second run of Marclay's The Clock at MoMA; linden trees in bloom; Bogue Profumo's MEM and Serge Lutens' Tubéreuse Criminelle; The Planet Crafter; physical therapy; new pants that fit right; @centuriesofsound.bsky.social's mixes always always always.
May 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Good Reasons for Stubbornness: THE METS; the second run of Marclay's The Clock at MoMA; linden trees in bloom; Bogue Profumo's MEM and Serge Lutens' Tubéreuse Criminelle; The Planet Crafter; physical therapy; new pants that fit right; @centuriesofsound.bsky.social's mixes always always always.
Back on my bullshit.
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Back on my bullshit.
Yeah. Still here.
February 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yeah. Still here.
Last year, I discovered the first installment of my beloved overview of the music of 1950, Mixcloud GO! 1950: The Bomb in the Heart of the Century, had been removed from Mixcloud because it was less than 15 minutes long.
January 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Last year, I discovered the first installment of my beloved overview of the music of 1950, Mixcloud GO! 1950: The Bomb in the Heart of the Century, had been removed from Mixcloud because it was less than 15 minutes long.
Maybe you can see further than I can see.
Maybe things all just look differently.
Maybe things all just look differently.
January 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Maybe you can see further than I can see.
Maybe things all just look differently.
Maybe things all just look differently.
In *Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris*, David Toop identifies the album as the center of all music, the nexus from which everything arrives at and flows from. You only wish your favorite album could receive this kind of loving scrutiny.
January 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In *Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris*, David Toop identifies the album as the center of all music, the nexus from which everything arrives at and flows from. You only wish your favorite album could receive this kind of loving scrutiny.
Back on my bullshit.
December 28, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Back on my bullshit.
I'm still around.
November 22, 2024 at 5:56 PM
I'm still around.
Fragrances to kill for: Clinique's Calyx (fruity florals); Serge Lutens' Dans le Bleu qui Pétille (a heady amber? for the summer?!?! yes!!!); Pineward's Ivymoss (IFRA wouldn't approve); and Lorenzo Pazzaglia's Sugar Kisses (a major exception to my loathing of dessert gourmands and "sexy" vanillas).
August 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Fragrances to kill for: Clinique's Calyx (fruity florals); Serge Lutens' Dans le Bleu qui Pétille (a heady amber? for the summer?!?! yes!!!); Pineward's Ivymoss (IFRA wouldn't approve); and Lorenzo Pazzaglia's Sugar Kisses (a major exception to my loathing of dessert gourmands and "sexy" vanillas).
I'm sorry, I'm alive, I still love you, but social media makes me plotz right now. If you'd like a chat, my real official email is epicharmus followed by the g and the mail and the dot and the com.
August 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I'm sorry, I'm alive, I still love you, but social media makes me plotz right now. If you'd like a chat, my real official email is epicharmus followed by the g and the mail and the dot and the com.
I found my people decades too late.
who else had the world book encyclopedia (we had the off-white fake leather cover ones) and the time life series with the cold blooded dinosaurs who else had these treasures
I’m going to have to find an old set of World Book Encyclopedias
May 23, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I found my people decades too late.
Oh no, I found a neighbor's blog.
May 22, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Oh no, I found a neighbor's blog.
A guest list from Studio 54. (Every archival image I've posted comes from collections.mcny.org btw.)
May 22, 2024 at 5:23 AM
A guest list from Studio 54. (Every archival image I've posted comes from collections.mcny.org btw.)
Tommy Lee Jones, 1974. Guess what part he's playing. Go on.
May 22, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Tommy Lee Jones, 1974. Guess what part he's playing. Go on.
This spring, there was a fragrance I kept smelling in the New York City air. It was like a vanilla cookie followed by a brick in the face. It wounded my pride being unable to identify that stank, so since then I’ve sampled dozens and dozens of femme vanillas. Prelim. conclusion: it was Black Opium.
May 21, 2024 at 10:44 PM
This spring, there was a fragrance I kept smelling in the New York City air. It was like a vanilla cookie followed by a brick in the face. It wounded my pride being unable to identify that stank, so since then I’ve sampled dozens and dozens of femme vanillas. Prelim. conclusion: it was Black Opium.
Passed by a guy wearing a t-shirt commemorating Nassau Coliseum and was tempted to give him a “Losing My Edge”-style rundown of my history with the place.
May 21, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Passed by a guy wearing a t-shirt commemorating Nassau Coliseum and was tempted to give him a “Losing My Edge”-style rundown of my history with the place.
Super glad this ad was uncovered in my neighborhood, super sad it’s going to disappear again.
May 21, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Super glad this ad was uncovered in my neighborhood, super sad it’s going to disappear again.
The fragrance is Dunhill’s Edition because I like to keep things “random,” as the kids say.
May 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The fragrance is Dunhill’s Edition because I like to keep things “random,” as the kids say.