Julian Hanna

That is SO on my list! And with a proper introduction too 💥

Yes, that would have been nice; a future edition, hopefully. Maybe a better cover too. But the writing is so gripping - so strikingly relevant and vividly depicted - that it hardly matters

Yes!

Another manifesto writing class done. Always gives you hope, never gets old. Manifestos - now more than ever! Students grabbed up our card decks too, which is nice :)

www.futuresofeurope.org/manifesto

‘Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders’ - Simone de Beauvoir in America Day by Day (thanks @joannapocock.bsky.social!), talking about NY

You can’t have too many copies

Eurostar confiscated my corkscrew; they knew how dangerously charming I’d be if I had unfettered access to all that French wine

They say purgatory is underrated!

But I am in favour of any country with a bicycle allowance

So would I! (Though my kid tells me it’s surprisingly chaotic despite the smooth veneer)

It is always in the Netherlands; this is why the Netherlands exists, like a pleasant purgatory for artists and academics

We seem to have similar students

Christy Malry’s Own Double-Entry has the virtue of brevity (and accounting)

Pure jealousy

It was fantastic - all the better for being unplanned!

Poster of Agnes Varda exhibition on street

Agnès! How fortuitous

As penance for today’s foray into futurism I’ll have a drink after with the San Lorenzo anti-fascists ✊

Museum doorway with Sala Balla

Unknown painting by Balla

Just popped into the Sala Balla

✊🙌🫶 but also 🤔

That seems to be the gist

‘does the busywork so you don’t have to’ - I mean, why do anything?

I think once was enough for the Cremaster Cycle

I remember watching Tom drive off towards LA from Iowa City - should have shouted ‘watch out for the 2020s! Pay your writers, for real!’

‘His real name was Shorty / Dizzy / Squeaky but everyone called him Mr Smith’

Absolutely

Insulation helps! I’ve come along way from my place in Canada where the cat’s water dish froze over in the kitchen

As were the Abyssinians

The Beautiful South?
I also suspect (deep cut) the Canadian prog band Chilliwack were actually from Vancouver proper

A manifesto! ;)

Odd full-circle moment then to the early days of hopeful internet? Reddit is another space maybe worth mentioning, bridging the Olds and the Kids; also fandom-adjacent as well as preserving the Twitter Real in some respects