If only theirs existed.
If only theirs existed.
I tried to read the newly released documents and it was so much I had to stop. So, content warning.
I wish I was angry but instead Iβm just so sad. So many lives shattered by these predatory monsters.
I think this is great criticism. I don't know much about art, but I understand Aruna D'Souza's descriptions, ideas, context and conclusions. And it's a lovely read. hyperallergic.com/the-polycris...
A new audiobook of Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeareβs sonnets is coming next month. How delightful!
But hell if Iβll link to the Audible page, so just consider this a heads-up and itβs coming soon.
I loved his last book, I canβt wait to read this one.
iI's so great that you're doing this. Long live the new Rumpus.
The Grog of War.
It could be gone in a Quibi.
I bet a hotel pharmacist had some good stories.
Stats nerd who went to work for the government, lawyer who quit to become a farmer/small town grocery store owner.
We actually did this in LA ages ago. I think we called it NAWP (Not AWP).
Buster Kitten, gray with white on his belly, asleep, upside-down, all akimbo.
Cats are elegant creatures.
2 bags of Protein Cinnamon Roll Popcorn on a shelf.
You know, Protein Cinnamon Roll Popcorn. For the kids!
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on 3 March. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Good morning and for fuck's sake stop this madness. The Guardian: US embassy in Riyadh hit by Iranian drones as Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The world sucks, so you get a cat:
Javier Mayoral, Sleeping Cat, 2021
I'm not two-sidesing this. It is American agression, a war started unlawfully, already resulting in hudreds of deaths, if not more.
It's terrifying to look at the news. Tragedy and horror. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Good for them.
"Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31."
afscme31.org/news/america...
π And a little weird if youβre watching The Pitt!
I just typed βHuckleberry Funn,β I think I need more coffee.
Congress isnβt powerless to stop Trumpβs war with Iran. From immediate oversight, to forcing a vote on a War Powers Resolution, to restricting or cutting off funding for unauthorized hostilities, tell your elected officials to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to this war.
I am the de facto leader of the NBA in all-time points scored.
I have a Mehitabel in my family tree too! I love that name.
A woman wearing glasses and a Marmiekko dress with a sun flare behing, plus the corner of a house and some very dead grass.
I got to sit outside and read today. It's one of my favorite things.
The french fry shop from the 1966 Jacques Demy film, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.
I want to go to the french fry shop, you know, the one with the cocktails and beer and espresso. This one.
I studied International Relations quite a while ago, but from what I recall bombing a historic city is not a good route to winning hearts and minds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Apropos of nothing, except a happier time.
When I was a college dropout I still lived near campus and one day a friend told me to go see a speaker whose work I'd never read and when I got to the smallish lecture hall there was an interlocutor and translator and the guy that's how I got to hear/discover Derrida.