Adalena Kavanagh

Hell yeah

Two spots left in this course! We’ll go deep on four Sparks from four different Spark eras. I’ll also give you feedback on your WIP. I love these classes and might be looking forward to this one most of all!

Vatican II was a slippery slope!

We're in a Mid Age of culture, largely because culture industries have gotten rid of their equivalent of publishing's mid-list. Instead, we get vibes and competency, but nothing more.

NYC marriage certificate from 1941 with the groom's name, Harder Lovin Hansen

G is looking up his Irish grandparent's marriage certificate and came across this groom's name

You are who eats you I know thee not, chopped unc

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

Ah!

so a republican female president, then

boo

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we try to forget how terrible the opening track is, though

some days this gal is the only way to express my mood

The question is not who is the sexiest Muppet (Rowlf) but how is it that so many of the Muppets are sexy.

Artsy people like avant garde dogs like borzoi, etc, that look like they were dreamed up in a salon in Paris in the 1920s. I prefer dogs that look like they were invented by five year olds and drawn in crayon. (Goldens, Alaskan Malamutes, Beagles, Samoyed, Great Pyrs, native mutts of Asia, etc.)

ON EATING book launch April 16 at Powerhouse Arena I am announcing this wherever I am speaking to very few people lol events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powe...

My sister teaches a high school film studies class so at least she's keeping some of them informed

Agree

Mostly. I enjoyed seeing the various permutations of Rose Byrne's face and emotions. I also admired that they didn't do much exposition. You really had to piece together what was going on through the action and dialogue. Also, they didn't give the audience easy closure. The ending is open-ended.

"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" makes an interesting choice to keep much of the film in closeup of Rose Byrne's face. Rather than feel voyeuristic, like many films feel when centered on women, it (to me) felt more like an attempt at the interiority that fiction does better than film.

Beautiful

Leonard Michaels' I Would Have Saved Them If I Could

For Christmas @martinseay.bsky.social got me SALVAGE by Hedgie Choi & it’s funny & great.

The Pavement algo hit, Harness Your Hopes, is one thing but I wonder if it's discovered their weird song Greenlander yet.

These are a welcome innovation on our black & whites

Tom, there's a difference between Bitch Mode and Little Bitch Mode. Important distinctions.

This is horrible but also...most photographers would just say they threw their camera but a Leica user HAS to let you know it's a Leica.

In the fall I was interviewed by the UFT newspaper on how the school phone ban has affected the library & said our circulation is up. I finally ran the circ stats yesterday & learned not only is it up, we've already circulated 100 more books than all of last year.

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Black protest marchers proceed down Fifth Avenue in 1917, dressed in white, led by drummers.

A flag reading “Love” flies next to a golden statue of General Sherman

People chanted “Shame” when we got to the Trump abomination on Fifth Ave.

Colorful signs abounded, like this one that says, “We wanted Huddled Masses, not Hooded Assses"

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

My mom showed me how to sharpen a knife with toothpaste and the bottom dull edge of a ceramic plate (and also the edge of my stone topped sink). She'd survive in a post-apocalyptic world.