michael röbbins

my wee-small-hours top 5

Louis Armstrong, "Blueberry Hill" (Live)
Frank Sinatra, "I Can't Get Started"
Billie Holiday w/ Lester Young, "I Must Have That Man"
Louis Armstrong, "Black and Blue"
Chet Baker, "My Funny Valentine"

this is my favorite poem of yrs in 25 years, Jorie

exactly

wait what if we’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year

"Today, with you, success is the supreme criterion in judging any kind of action at all. The fact itself is of no account; what matters is how people see it."—Vautrin, in Balzac's Lost Illusions

this is literally Succession

my wee-small-hours top 5

Louis Armstrong, "Blueberry Hill" (Live)
Frank Sinatra, "I Can't Get Started"
Billie Holiday w/ Lester Young, "I Must Have That Man"
Louis Armstrong, "Black and Blue"
Chet Baker, "My Funny Valentine"

"Jet" still makes no sense whatsoever

Adrienne Salinger, “Kirk B., 16, Seattle, Washington, 1984”

somehow i am closer to this aesthetic now than i was in 1984

yeah this made me curse at the writers

I think of Kansas every summer

*this is a passage from my poem “John Says the Elders Came Over,” in Walkman (2021)

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At least 93 people have died of malnutrition in Gaza since July 20 due to Israel’s monthslong blockade. Here are some ways you can help get them aid.

I think of Kansas every summer

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just give what you can today? anything helps

oh he did get Humbert

I got almost all of them, but I’m trying to understand how this person knows Godard but not Breathless or Seberg, 81/2 but not Dolce Vita, Nabokov but not Humbert Humbert, etc.

Joshua would have appreciated this post

I accidentally ordered two different CDs of Wings’ Greatest from two different sellers, which pretty much sums up middle age

shout-out to the young woman in Tompkins Square Park loudly proclaiming “I can barely tolerate having a crush! Or even the thought of maybe having a crush!”

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives, by Michael Robbins A poet’s guide to metal

For the curious. Via @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social

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i hate this worthless, sycophantic fool. he has never not been wrong

Rock in peace, Ozzy. Fuck the war pigs

Rock in peace, Ozzy. Fuck the war pigs

I liked that they brought back the hypno glasses from an issue my grandmother bought me in 1978. And the Hall of Justice shot from Super Friends. But third-act CGI slugfests are a drag