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Can’t go wrong with the whole first collection open.substack.com/pub/austinkl...
Haha yes!!
Really didn’t have becoming a huge Sherlock Holmes nerd on my mid-life bingo card, but here we are
One of my favorite endings in Sherlock Holmes stories is when Holmes has some dude cornered and the dude is like, “I loved her! I would’ve died for her! That’s why I killed her murderer with this weird African root powder nobody else knows about” and Holmes lets him go because he’s impressed
Jackasses in Texas driving white $80k extended cab nonsense getting 10mpg could never
Here's a playlist of 40 Isley Brothers classics from four decades. Hard to think of another group that has excelled across so many different musical genres - rock'n'roll, R&B, soul, funk, disco, slow jams, pop, AOR, protest songs, folk rock...
▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/07T...
Text from This Is Orson Welles: PB: There's a line in Lady from Shanghai, "When I start out to make a fool of myself, there's little enough that can stop me. ... Do you feel that's been true in your life-have there been times when you feel you've made a fool of yourself? OW: That's one of those searching, penetrating questions 1 thought we'd avoid PB: You don't want to talk about it? OW: There've been so many occasions I don't know how to begin. PB: Regrets? OW: Millions. But, you know, I like the people who are ready and willing to make fools of themselves-being, as 1 am, a full member of the fraternity. Still, there are lots of nice felines who just can't. PB: Felines? OW: If spiritually you're part of the cat family, you can't bear to be laughed at. You have to pretend when you fall down that you really wanted to be down there just to see what's under the sofa. The rest of us don't at all mind being laughed at. PB: Then you're canine? OW: I'm a comic, anyway, even if I don't wag my tail very often.
The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Orson Welles, 1996).
One of my favourite photos – dated 12 February 1967, but no other details. From this flickr collection of library buses: flic.kr/ps/oGfN8
City Park, New Orleans
Here's some green for you
You could have a whole segment in the newsletter: Anne eBays
Those rule. I’m making this my new thing
God I hate to say this out loud but I bet you could feed AI a Barbara stanwyck movie and it could make a model you could 3-D print 👀 I’m going to look and see if anybody has done this
You don’t need capitalism — you need some high school pottery students! 😂
When I was watching THE PRICEMASTER for the 20th time recently, I thought, “That Don Quixote bust is killer.” austinkleon.substack.com/p/tuesday-tr...
We need to bring back busts
I MISSED AGAIN PHIL COLLINS
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Plus, it’s really fun to play with side A / side B, which isn’t possible with playlists
austinkleon.substack.com/t/mixtapes
the mixtape is superior to the playlist precisely because of its limitations: what selections from the maker’s music collection can fit on a C-90. & it was a labor of love, pushing record, stopping just in time, over & over. not to mention intricately thought-out cover art on the insert
@add-hawk.bsky.social reading THE SCORE in the same week I watched the birding documentary LISTERS makes me think you'd really enjoy it (it's about when a ranking/scoring system takes over a pleasurable pasttime!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
Working on a new typewriter interview!
Read them all here: austinkleon.substack.com/t/typewriter...
Gotcha!
Is DUNE fandom still good or is that what you’re referring to? (I remember really liking this piece) theoutline.com/post/5333/du...
It’s hardcover but it’s the same trim so it should match them nicely. (I don’t know if/when there will be a paperback)
Talk to @atrubek.bsky.social
100%. Also: Craziest shit just happened — after I read that one of my best friends from college texted me a photo of him in the delivery room with his new daughter — I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THEY WERE EXPECTING. What a morning
This is a goofy and childish thing to say, but, the good news is that it has occasioned this absolutely terrific essay!
I really can’t imagine missing it. Being in the room both times. The absolute terror but also the elation — how someone wasn’t there and then in an instant they were? Crazy.
New book coming out in June! austinkleon.substack.com/p/my-next-bo...
Putting your post here so I can read it later! open.substack.com/pub/tjwilson...
