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This is my last one before the baby arrives!

One cool thing about being a teacher is that when the school holidays arrive you can hang out in your house eating a tuna melt and listening to the record "Caveman Wakes Up" by Friendship

Ok, I keep thinking about this opening from the "Will AI revolutionize reading?!" New Yorker piece from the other day. Feel free to ignore what will be an inevitably rambling thread on the topic of reading

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Copped this ancient, decaying copy of Enid Starkie's Rimbaud biography from a seller in New Zealand:

There is zero chance that I'll have the time or cognitive resources to read this during the next fifteen years, but I want to buy it anyway.

After painting a newly plastered ceiling with a roller I can barely close a fist. I'll take the 5am essay marking seshes thanks

A lot of school teachers talk a big game about how they're going to quit and learn a trade because the hours would be better and they reckon they'd get paid more. These guys need to spend a weekend painting their laundry and then get back to me

does he kill an anonymous stranger for killing his dog in that one

thanks mate!

yeah it’s really good, not sure if you’ve heard this before

I hope you enjoyed it. Long and difficult movie in a lot of ways, but it has stayed with me for years.

“The future is a monstrous, powerful colossus that will soon fall on me and crush me. My tattered childhood flaps around me, and no sooner have I patched one hole than another breaks through somewhere else.”

(Ditlevsen, ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy’)

did not expect this post to end up in a Substack essay! very cool!

Thank you! I’ve never heard of her before. This looks great!

One of the best movies of the 2000s in my opinion! Incredibly harrowing opening five minutes though

I always think of Mathew Broderick’s character in Margaret!

intro to close reading with the year elevens tomorrow, meaning I gotta smash that Hopkins button:

exactly. if it’s not afternoon on the back porch music I am currently not interested

respect to all of those in the northern hemisphere enjoying the new Mount Eerie album but it’s summer down here and I don’t have capacity for that right now

the face of a perfect angel who just looked me dead in the eye and vomited all over the Good Couch right before I left for work

I am a simple man. If I read “first two parts of wildly acclaimed Danish speculative septology from New Directions incoming” then I immediately pre-order

Thank you! I’m still in the middle of having someone explain the preface to me, but maybe in a year’s time I’ll be far enough to understand this

is it easy trying to parse the Phenomenology while the person you love most calls you a nerd? no. is it a noble pursuit? also no

my wife is making fun of me for taking notes while watching a YouTube lecture on Hegel, and she’s right to do it

Next up, thanks to a recent @yoonkim.bsky.social post:

This is the first unsolicited advice/scolding post I’ve seen on here… it was nice while it lasted

I can accept this. But it stings

Out of The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young, edited by Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, and Jacob Siefring (@jsief.bsky.social) (Chatwin Books, Sublunary Editions, 2022). Young, in a short Introduction, talks of the poetry/prose continuum and the practice of “drag” in prose:

Noroi [ The Curse] ( 2005) [ DVDrip] PT-Br e Eng : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Noroi

Streamed it on archive here: archive.org/details/noro...

Finally got around to watching “Noroi: The Curse,” and am still living with its crushingly grim vibes. A movie almost exclusively made up of cursed images and droning doom sounds. Extremely sick.