Marla Lepore

Reinforcing my from-the-start hatred of Walt

MR WRONG: Clocked out Indignity Vol. 6, No. 20

Save Me From This Daylight Business www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-clocked-out/

People Magazine News Alert: Donald Trump, 79, Steps Out with Scabbing Neck Rash at Medal of Honor Ceremony

Whoever does People Magazine’s news alerts is my favorite member of the resistance. Also, Scabbing Neck Rash is my new band name.

Emmylou Harris: ‘It’s a lot harder, isn’t it, to just live a long life?’ As the country music titan prepares for her final European performances, she speaks to Louis Chilton about life, mortality, and being part of the ‘greatest era’ of music

💙

This gives me hope

A deeply intuitive, multifaceted actor. A true artist in every sense. Benicio del Toro covers @thr.com. My profile: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

great profile of Richard Hell

A pot of creole shrimp

Mardi Gras Creole Shrimp extreme closeup

"We’re always writing about ourselves, however much we try to trick ourselves into believing otherwise."

Harold and Maude is a movie that speaks specifically to its time, but which I mean any time between 1971 and forever. Rest In Peace, Bud Cort.

Another London, by Hari Kunzru Excavating the disenchanted city

If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...

a list of journalism job openings for Posties & anyone looking Turns out that Twitter is still good for something...

handy round-up of journalism job openings shared on the other place

open.substack.com/pub/deezlink...

Gerrymandered-to-hell territory

Elon Musk’s Nashville Tunneling Venture Has the Mayor Hoping No One Dies The Boring Co. is about to embark on its most ambitious tunneling project yet, but critics worry the company is woefully underprepared.

"Home said Davis’s description of limestone’s properties and the challenge of tunneling through rock of varying hardness was divorced from reality. Boring’s public assertions about how tunneling machines work in conditions like Nashville’s are 'definitely not true,' he said." ah details

"cowardly, plain and simple."

Five classes you took in college

Early Modern Family in Europe
Shakespeare's Histories and Comedies
Introduction to Opera
Introduction to Astronomy (barely went, regretted that later!)
English Lit Seminar - Icelandic sagas!

The only other Marla I was aware of as a child. Love that she kept working in reservations at United Airlines for the first couple of years, just in case!

'Batman' blasts Bay Area city council over ICE's involvement in Super Bowl "I'm f—king demanding that you act with some semblance of a f—king spine."

Another one

The Two-Sentence Outline that Defines the Form: An Interview with George Saunders  - The Rumpus “Usually, I try to make things as brief as I can (my model is one of those wind-up toys and I wind it up and drop it on the floor and it races right under the couch. The end). But with this, and with ...

I found some weird hope in this realization, too (re: the Sy Hersh Netflix doc): "we are not some perfect country that has recently fallen from grace ... forever, certain people have been trying to drag the whole shebang into the light. That—those people, with a hope of something better—is real."

Where to find warming locations in Nashville In a rare move signaling the major impact of the winter storm, Metro has opened cold weather warming locations across Nashville.   The Nashville Fire

UPDATE: Nashville adds transportation service to reach warming centers.
wpln.org/post/where-t...

MR WRONG: That's the way it is. Indignity Vol. 6, No. 4

The News Is Bad but Also the News the News Is on Is Bad www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-thats-the-way-it-is/

Fortunate man / Despairing diversion Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow

Fame, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to shape history, to see the truth and to tell the truth: the dimensions of ambition are vast and contradictory

If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.

Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/

Blank Generation (2017 Remaster Audio) (Remastered) YouTube video by Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Topic

#MusicChallenge
#70sTop30

13. Eventually more of a novelist/poet/essayist than a musician, but gave us some classics, none more so than this.

youtu.be/v9FkQLjOSZ8?...

The one musician Iggy Pop called "the light of my life" Iggy Pop was operating on his own frequency throughout the 1970s. That was until he met one musician who became somewhat of a brother.

"David [Bowie]'s friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is.” 🖤

faroutmagazine.co.uk/musician-igg...?

I know - I need to tackle that too.

I love a "difficult" book, and I feel like I have to take this on ... eventually. I did love DeWitt's "The English Understand Wool," but I still don't know what I think about "Lightning Rods."

The Benefits of Reading a ‘Hard’ Book The true pleasure of literature can be found in bizarre, demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

I’m ringing in the new year at @theatlantic.com with a big essay on the value of a challenging book, my yearly reading resolutions, and Helen Dewitt’s long-awaited Your Name Here www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Same

“You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.” ― Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

“You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate...” - Nobel prize winner Gao Xingjian, born on this day

Blackeyed peas and greens

Blackeyed peas and greens. If nothing else, 2026 started off with good eatin'