Aaron

It’s quite funny to see how eager folks on this site are to trumpet from the rooftops their inability to detect irony!

But none of us are in heaven yet.

it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!”

join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!

I will always repost Bread and Puppet content

It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today.

Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.

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It’s all fun and games until your four-year-old reveals the face of her imaginary friend.

I3S・Conversation flows on, the application and interpretation of words, and only in its course do words have their meaning. "He has gone away" "Why?" -What did you mean, when you uttered the word "why"? What did you think of? LW, Zettel

Little poems everywhere, in Wittgenstein, for those with eyes to see

in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up

Guys, he’s back

Alright, it’s got a cover and a pub date and can be yours for four interest-free payments of $4.75 via Klarna, for some reason! www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

There’s a guy running for city council here on the slogan: “Empathy with restraint.”

Thanks!

Niche request, I know, but I’d be grateful for any info on the best Francophone bookstores, used and new, in Montreal . . . particularly shops with good film sections . . .

In the background, an enormous leering snaggletoothed hippie deity of some kind painted on a theatrical backdrop, in the foreground, stilt-walkers and audience members; at Bread and Puppet, West Glover, VT.

An array of wall-mounted security and safety devices (two black-dome cameras and a smoke detector (?)) in a local food co-op in New Hampshire, triangulated so that they resemble a pair of eyes and a nose; they have been provided with a hand-drawn toothy grin on a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11” paper. To the right, a sign reading “Probiotics”.

Vermont / New Hampshire

Oh man, July’s almost over, better get started on lesson planning so that I’m 100% prepared for my first day of classes at the

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New entry at the Ruiz Diaries.
ruizdiaries.substack.com
This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday.
I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it.
Hope you enjoy.

It’s in this volume of selected poems, from 1993! (I really like the printed boards.)

The World Association of Ugly People (in Italian Club dei Brutti) is an organization dedicated to fighting for the recognition of ugly people, in a society that places a high value on physical beauty. The group's motto is "A person is what he is and not what he looks like".