Craig Svonkin
@svonkin.bsky.social
Craig is a professor and a bit of an obsessor, but never a confessor, aggressor, represser, and rarely a dapper dresser.
I've been reading lately about this country, the USA. And each day, I grow more and more wary.
February 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've been reading lately about this country, the USA. And each day, I grow more and more wary.
Work is better than despair, I guess.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Work is better than despair, I guess.
Harry Belafonte - Hava Nagila (Live)
YouTube video by Harry Belafonte Television and Video Archive
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February 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Harvey & Sheila (Hava Nagila)
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February 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Sorry to hear about Jules Feiffer's death. But I guess that much productive creativity and 95 years ain't too bad a story.
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February 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sorry to hear about Jules Feiffer's death. But I guess that much productive creativity and 95 years ain't too bad a story.
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I am what I am and that’s sadly mostly what I am.
February 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I am what I am and that’s sadly mostly what I am.
Now that I live alone, I regularly put the ice tray back into the freezer with just one ice cube remaining.
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Now that I live alone, I regularly put the ice tray back into the freezer with just one ice cube remaining.
"It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope, even if you have to get out your phone. Record that message, ‘I will not give into the lies. I will not give in to the fear.’" --Jim Acosta as he quit CNN
January 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope, even if you have to get out your phone. Record that message, ‘I will not give into the lies. I will not give in to the fear.’" --Jim Acosta as he quit CNN
I'm glad to hear that Biden, as one of his very last acts as president, has allowed Leonard Peltier to leave prison for home arrest for his remaining days. This doesn't forgive an unjust prosecution and trial, but it does allow Peltier to live with a degree of dignity for the remainder of his life.
January 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I'm glad to hear that Biden, as one of his very last acts as president, has allowed Leonard Peltier to leave prison for home arrest for his remaining days. This doesn't forgive an unjust prosecution and trial, but it does allow Peltier to live with a degree of dignity for the remainder of his life.
Werner Herzog on Buster Keaton
January 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Werner Herzog on Buster Keaton
I'd go with you to see David Byrne, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Hayes Carll, Dolly Parton, or maybe even Lana Del Rey or Jack White.
I wouldn't go with you to see Billy Joel, the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Kid Rock, Kanye West, or M.I.A.
I'm open to other suggestions.
I wouldn't go with you to see Billy Joel, the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Kid Rock, Kanye West, or M.I.A.
I'm open to other suggestions.
January 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'd go with you to see David Byrne, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Hayes Carll, Dolly Parton, or maybe even Lana Del Rey or Jack White.
I wouldn't go with you to see Billy Joel, the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Kid Rock, Kanye West, or M.I.A.
I'm open to other suggestions.
I wouldn't go with you to see Billy Joel, the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Kid Rock, Kanye West, or M.I.A.
I'm open to other suggestions.
Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear (1944), starring Ray Milland and based on Graham Greene’s novel, would be a good film to remake. The film entertains, but I wanted it to be less clear for longer about whether Milland’s Stephen Neale was insane or trapped in a series of bizarre events.
January 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear (1944), starring Ray Milland and based on Graham Greene’s novel, would be a good film to remake. The film entertains, but I wanted it to be less clear for longer about whether Milland’s Stephen Neale was insane or trapped in a series of bizarre events.
I invented a new beverage today by accidentally pouring Diet Dr. Pepper into a half glass of ice coffee. I’m thinking of calling it Dr. Coffee. Delicious!??
Dr.glass
January 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I invented a new beverage today by accidentally pouring Diet Dr. Pepper into a half glass of ice coffee. I’m thinking of calling it Dr. Coffee. Delicious!??
Just watched Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), a very funny play on Ernst Lubitsch's 1939 Ninotchka (co-written by Wilder). The film has some great acting and writing, including terrific plays on moments from early James Cagney films. And Cagney is hilarious.
January 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Just watched Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), a very funny play on Ernst Lubitsch's 1939 Ninotchka (co-written by Wilder). The film has some great acting and writing, including terrific plays on moments from early James Cagney films. And Cagney is hilarious.
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Out with a friend in New Orleans! @svonkin.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Out with a friend in New Orleans! @svonkin.bsky.social
My friend decorated for Chanukamas for me!
December 25, 2024 at 4:48 PM
My friend decorated for Chanukamas for me!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Hanukkah, all around the town!
December 10, 2024 at 1:18 AM
It’s beginning to look a lot like Hanukkah, all around the town!
"Balthy 4"
With rubber duck and battleship,
Sponge and loofah do the trick.
Pink skin and cheeks, he never reeks,
But smells so sweet: hurray!
Balthazar Josephus Fleet:
The USA's greatest Bathelete!
With rubber duck and battleship,
Sponge and loofah do the trick.
Pink skin and cheeks, he never reeks,
But smells so sweet: hurray!
Balthazar Josephus Fleet:
The USA's greatest Bathelete!
November 26, 2024 at 4:49 PM
"Balthy 4"
With rubber duck and battleship,
Sponge and loofah do the trick.
Pink skin and cheeks, he never reeks,
But smells so sweet: hurray!
Balthazar Josephus Fleet:
The USA's greatest Bathelete!
With rubber duck and battleship,
Sponge and loofah do the trick.
Pink skin and cheeks, he never reeks,
But smells so sweet: hurray!
Balthazar Josephus Fleet:
The USA's greatest Bathelete!
"Balthy 3"
Yet Balthy has a skill
One that he practices still:
To tub all night and day
Until his skin does pucker,
Man, he loves to bathe, this sucker!
Yet Balthy has a skill
One that he practices still:
To tub all night and day
Until his skin does pucker,
Man, he loves to bathe, this sucker!
November 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
"Balthy 3"
Yet Balthy has a skill
One that he practices still:
To tub all night and day
Until his skin does pucker,
Man, he loves to bathe, this sucker!
Yet Balthy has a skill
One that he practices still:
To tub all night and day
Until his skin does pucker,
Man, he loves to bathe, this sucker!