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"I saw a duck die on the Gowanus. First there were two, sluggishly trying to reach the canal wall. When I looked again there was only one, head leaning left, then it stopped and died."
The Gowanus Canal. First reply.
"Every morning I lie awake trying to separate myself from the dark, like the way I’m trying to separate this book from the material of my life. Who are you, in particular, before you get up?"
An excerpt from a novel in progress by a writer worth every word, Mike DeCapite. First reply.
Substack TV: TV is boring. Watching people talk is the most boring. not as interesting as killing alligators or being naked and afraid. Substack will end up selling merch. Smart writing won't matter: the medium is the message. Welcome to adding Substack of visual chewing gum.
"Trump is an ugly man. Inside, he is a cloaca of wormy resentments, putrid hatreds, swarming maggots, flesh-ripping visions of his real and imagined enemies, blood lust and a boundless craving for power. In short, the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch."
On "Open" AI. First reply.
"My first big snow was in New York in 1967. I built a snowman with my neighbor and we made snow angels that filled up the minute we got up, and then we had a snowball fight in the middle of the street where no car was to be seen."
The Snow door. First reply.
#filmsky As the studios and networks race to abase themselves to fulfill the artless whims of the incontinent incompetent, #independentfilm, live #theater and #underground arts matter more than ever.
That is to say, watch the movie @andreicodrescu.bsky.social called "a sharp essay on art!"
"If there was a trace of concern for people, it was dividing them into 'friends' and 'enemies' who, in some instances, Russia for example, were one and the same."
Our 007 in Davos. First Reply.
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"The machine isn’t just tanks and guns, like it was in the 20th century. It is also the fastest disinformation machine in a history that is falsified the moment it happens. Words and images change sides the second they are uttered."
Missing Revolutions. First reply.
Our money
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Revisiting the 2016 election: The Dada Show. Check first reply.
Valley of Christmas: a fairytale for children about the perils of screens. First reply.
"I used to be a run-of-the-mill paranoid American who believed quite rightly that power gives the rich license to steal, and that government was a cabal that built roads to keep the cars of the rich out of the mud."
Paranoia. First reply.
Au Revoir Raison!
New poetry--first reply.
"Our mono-pictoral black & white world gave reluctant way to a serial picture world with hints of color in it. It wasn’t until I left Romania in 1965 that I realized that the world could be multi-imaged and color-explosive, and that people could actually wear unconstrained faces."
On Photography.
Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.
