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Jim Petersen

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Writer, visual artist, literary archivist. Pro-democracy. Everything changes and nothing is lost. – Ovid. Poetry is braver than anybody. – Roberto Bolańo. Don’t let it end like this, tell them I said something. – Pancho Villa.

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Dodgy Overlords of Grifter Entitlement

19.02.2025 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Biweekly can be twice a week or every other week. Bimonthly can be twice a month or every other month. Ah, the English as she is spoke. Maddening.

07.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Republican administrations are so confusing. President Musk rules w/o a single American having voted for him. And then if VP Trump becomes his backup, what is VP Vance’s job?

20.12.2024 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book of the day. An astonishing sequence of 501 sonnets! (Shakespeare, you lightweight.) #booksky

08.12.2024 19:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yesterday was November 26, Trump Sentencing Day for 34 Felonies. It’s the holidays we no longer celebrate that you really miss.

27.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book of the day. One of a series of three dust jacket designs by Semadar Megged for New Directions that perfectly evokes the mystery and beauty of Sebald’s writing. #booksky

26.11.2024 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book of the day. With the classic Alvin Lustig dust wrapper. #booksky

22.11.2024 20:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book of the day. #booksky

21.11.2024 21:36 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book of the day. #booksky A literary and cultural history of swimming. A mostly forgotten gem reprinted by Vintage Classics.

20.11.2024 19:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ha! I’m just the reverse! And The Waves is amazing too, such sentences.

19.11.2024 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slow to catch up but… this one. Book of the day. #booksky

19.11.2024 21:35 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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Inland, by Gerald Murnane

Inland, by Gerald Murnane

My first Gerald Murnane book. Haunting, strange, lyrical prose. Any other Murnane readers here? #geraldmurnane

17.11.2024 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Janis Joplin asked me for a light for her cigarette at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. I was 20, shy, and foolish. I didn’t smoke then, didn’t have a lighter or matches. She disappeared into the crowd.

14.11.2024 22:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Climbing out of the primordial Twitter ooze. Checking out the blue sky above, looks brighter so far.

14.11.2024 22:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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