Riley Greenleaf

teeth feeling almost normal again!

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I should phrase this more clearly: does anyone have favorite arguments—that appear in published writing guides—on why endnotes should NOT contain substantive discussion, including digressions and side conversations?

the weather is supposed to warm up starting Tuesday…..that’s about all I’ve got 😔

still true

anyone have favorite arguments in favor of *not* putting substantive, discursive material in endnotes? ie, just dealing with citation and documentation matters in the notes?

a counter-example, e.g., would be Eric Hayot's discussion of the multiple things notes can achieve [cont]

happy birthday!

“All-Time High,” the title sequence song in OCTOPUSSY, is so atrociously bad on every level it seems like sabotage

bumping this, folks. still a chance to say you helped Winteron Girl Scout meet her goal!!

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"Of course Chicago has nothing to say about that particular situation"

does the ending of ABSALOM, when Quentin shouts "I don't hate the South!," also count as one of these moments?

because @thescrvnr.bsky.social has been posting about Fleetwood Mac, it got me thinking about "Gold Dust Woman" and I came up with this interpretive analysis of it:

"it's like a 70s California drugs/outlaw movie somehow mixed with a giallo"

not to get self-congratulatory, but I think I nailed it

interesting example of how true nihilism is distinct from mordant shitposting

I feel silly for having come to FM so late in life (basically really started listening to them in about 2018!!) but that run from 75 to 82 merits obsessing over

I don’t even think he’s that wooden! I mean let’s be honest, it’s not the most complex role in cinema 😆

but Connery definitely had a kind of louche swagger that one no else has matched

!!! 🤣 how did you ruin it for him?

“Storms” is the one for me. phew

totally coincidentally, I’ve been rewatching some of the movies since they’re all on Netflix now.

I still say On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the best 007 movie! and Lazenby isn’t as strong as Connery, but he’s not nearly so bad as some make him out to be

I’m kind of morbidly curious to see what I’d think of the writing now

interested to hear what you think of it. I read all the Fleming novels in high school and never since

yeah, I know Asimov and Heinlein were bad dudes.

Arthur C Clarke? I dug him back in high school

(never read Asimov or Heinlein and don’t plan to)

**PKD 🤦🏻‍♂️

I started reading PDK in my late 20s and am still slowly working my way through his stuff. I like him, despite his often flat characters. (and he writes women terribly)

who are examples of Golden Age?

YouTube video by Ray Barretto - Topic Guararé

more clave

YouTube video by World Circuit Records Ibrahim Ferrer - Buenos Hermanos (Official Audio)

clave

prepared and also on some basic level interested in the work of governance

Prince's Minneapolis book cover.

For Minneapolis folks, Rashad Shabazz will be at Magers and Quinn on February 24 to present his new book Prince's Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place. This is very cool work, in my view.

10 Books that Celebrate Black History Among the new books hitting the shelves for Black History Month are two novels about the legacy of Black American soldiers in WWII, works of history that trace the fight for freedom and justice, and b...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social on @drshabazz.bsky.social’s PRINCE’S MINNEAPOLIS (@uncpress.bsky.social) as a book that celebrates Black history: “Shabazz analyzes Prince’s life, career, and discography, showing how it was intrinsically shaped by Minneapolis, and shaped Minneapolis in turn.”