Helena Fitzgerald

anyway somebody please let me write a big essay about being driven so mad by living through history that I read all twelve books of A Dance to the Music of Time in like six weeks

I’m letting myself reread Against the Day as a treat in advance of the new one and I cannot stress enough that this right here is the mud I want to live and be buried in, sorry in advance for how annoying I’m about to become

among other things, this is why intergenerational friendships are the key to wanting to stay alive and present in the world as one gets older (and certainly the only way to make a meaningful life in a place like NYC past the age of, idk, 32)

I’m making myself read a bunch of contemporary stuff, mostly so that I stop having to tell my friends “sorry my texts sound like they were written by somebody who fucked Evelyn Waugh in the Eton toilets,” but then, yeah probably

well that and your one weird friend from college being into weird sex stuff

I finally finished A Dance to the Music of Time and basically this is what A Dance to the Music of Time is about

the quotes here (on the post Angus is quoting) are a real treasure trove, and also this is why that line about “she was an astronaut” from that one later episode of Mad Men always destroys me

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.

Absolute hell poison to believe the most valuable ideals are open exchange, debate, and regard for the beliefs of others, instead of actual ethics.

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

they're calling her "the coolest person who has ever been alive"

not the point of my post but EXTREMELY accurate to my experience as well

(post brought to you by several excellent photos of my husband wearing my nicest sweater while I’m away visiting family)

short guys who don’t want to date tall women is one thing (I have many opinions but that’s not the subject here), but tall guys who don’t want to date tall women are like oh so you really just want to buy your own sweaters for the rest of your life, huh

liking a pop music album shouldn’t require faith in things not seen!

imagine catholicism but the aesthetics aren’t even good

the last few Kali Uchis records are pretty great, Red Moon in Venus especially imo

I see everybody’s posting about their favorite perhaps-underappreciated pop albums from the last few years, and I just think that’s nice

I’m never going to stop being mad that hedge funds and tech middlemen siphoned off all the money that should’ve let someone like Kaleb Horton have the career he deserved

I’m so proud of everybody that so far only two or three of you have gone for the obvious joke (no I didn’t learn about “twenty thousand” until much later)

This is abominable. They go after sleeping children because every fair fight chases them away.

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Alexander Skarsgård, five minutes after the Pillion trailer was released:

dads having to desperately scramble to make up bedtime stories out of whatever material they have available in their heads is a beautiful tradition and also why it took me until I was in middle school to figure out that Wilt Chamberlain was a real person and not a character my dad made up

if you feel like walking into the ocean my advice is to go on a bike ride instead. Bike ride won’t solve everything but it sorts out a lot of stuff

also look I think in general we should all move away from approaching art through a self-help framework, but, on the other hand, telling myself to think of Benicio saying “ocean waves” whenever I had to ride on the road where there are cars was incredibly effective

Marge Simpson lifting a big bar of weights under the caption “me after telling myself a fascist worked out this morning”

here’s me getting up and going on a 12-mile bike ride today despite not having been on a bike in the better part of a year (it was so great)

do NOT let them into the zoom meeting

“Hello, friends, Willem Dafoe here, back in the HUP Hutch …”

:: pulls a green book from a shelf of green books ::

“… well, we all know and love this man and his Poetics, don’t we folks?”

few small beers