Griffin Candey

ordering iced coffee at a new café is always a dice roll, i.e. is it just hot coffee they put in the fridge or hopsital

I honestly don’t vibe with this in live performance, either lol

love it when little pink petals waft lazily down from flowering trees. I get why that’s in every anime intro ever

apparently yes lol

I’m about to write a book—𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬—and you can bet that it’ll be truly riddled with em dashes

ChatGPT can pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands

Perfect for playing Aaron Copland's El Scallión Mexico

Ravel’s Pavane pour un Oignon Géant

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

little white and gray cat lounging on a couch

sleepy morning bub

it’s not a “product”

it’s not “content”

it’s not just the object

it is the meaning and the intention—and if it’s just spat out by a prompt scraped from a melange of unsuspecting artists, then it doesn’t mean anything, other than the fact that you don’t respect, love, or appreciate art or artists

I don’t know how to get this across more than it’s already been stated:

the point of making art is not that it’s easy

the point is that we work, in every medium imaginable, to communicate things deeper than language alone can

most stuff is obvious in some way, but the fact that I now have a habit of doing a quick little search to make sure that someone actually made the art I’d like to enjoy is frustrating and exhausting

I hate generative AI for lots of reasons, and one of those reasons is that it makes me have a veneer of distrust on every image I see, every new piece of music I hear

an orange cat is sitting in a dignified position leaning on one elbow with his paws politely crossed but he fell asleep which somewhat undermines the dignified posture

[Waiting for the host to start meeting.]

The host:

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

(they don’t have a redbud emoji)

the redbuds are blooming around here, and that always makes me really, really happy 🌸

wheeler's coney island, drive-in, route 10, deposit, new york, 1987

wheeler's coney island, drive-in, route 10, deposit, new york, 1987

nothing but respect for MY king

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

“we’re big! we’re still relevant! we have big cars! and our hair is naturally blonde like this!!!”

everything about the current political environment has such a severe midlife crisis energy to it

ah dang, I wish I could be there! please say hi to the folks ♥️♥️♥️

honch

honch

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“chiSOXago” really trips off the tongue, I applaud it

2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”

BLACK.

THEY MEAN BLACK.

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."

This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.