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Just to nitpick re: Sorensen, we actually HAVE seen a team do what caps have done in MLS history, last year’s Crew got to the same round of CCL, finished on 66 pts (Caps will finish @ 66 if they win) and won Leagues Cup (at least as hard a winning Canadian Champ). He is deserving COTY regardless.

In college, pretended to be a Stalinist to impress a coworker at the used bookstore I worked at part-time.

Appointment viewing

Vow of Silence: On Sebastian Castillo’s “Fresh, Green Life” - Cleveland Review of Books Rife throughout the novel are men adrift: young men looking for role models to follow and old men at the end of their charade.

I wrote about Sebastian Castillo’s new book “Fresh, Green Life” for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social about one man’s quixotic journey to the end of the night. clereviewofbooks.com/vow-of-silen...

Vow of Silence: On Sebastian Castillo’s “Fresh, Green Life” - Cleveland Review of Books Rife throughout the novel are men adrift: young men looking for role models to follow and old men at the end of their charade.

I wrote about Sebastian Castillo’s new book “Fresh, Green Life” for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social about one man’s quixotic journey to the end of the night. clereviewofbooks.com/vow-of-silen...

An older translation renders this as “the barbarians were elated by their arrival.” Personally I enjoy “cock-a-hoop,” more colorful, pride before the fall, foolish etc.

Clearly a bit of whimsy on the part of our Oxford-trained translator

I have never encountered this phrase before. From Caesar’s Gallic War

Currently reading

That’s right

Finished Henry Esmond yesterday

Moron is fighting Radagon with rivers of blood

Spending my Friday night harassing strangers streaming Elden Ring on live

Started writing by hand and it was like the fetters were taken off. Mostly crap but that’s what revision is for

2025 is the year of Thackeray.. but 2026 will be the year of Trollope

Everyone on the Paris metro is so quiet. Like a library in here.

Figured out how to connect to the bt speaker in paris so I don’t have to listen to muzak while looking at sacre coeur. Now I can listen to the gap band.

Going to Paris next week, currently reading Caesar’s Gallic War. Bad taste to bring it with me?

My failure with social media is I find replying to others to be a cloying, desperate venture. Whereas other people see it as making friends. If you compare the results “they” have a commanding lead.

Think I’ll have a beer this afternoon… maybe two..

It’s always 2014 in my mind

Look I think we can agree it felt like this app was going somewhere in Nov 2024. And yet.

Against the Day is a steampunk novel

I Will Never Go To A National Park

“A loose baggy monster” — Henry James

Now playing this Friday

Not hip to say but I have been reading through Thackeray and enjoying it thoroughly. In his time second to Dickens, today, largely unread beyond VF.

THEODORE SOVINSKI / IF THE KNIFE OF GOD SHOULD BE FOUND DULL LET MY HAND BE HIS WHETSTONE — always crashing As the booming voiceover welcomes its thrall, the camera pans and zooms slow in towards the lofty Coliseum spitting up in the valley ringed by sheer escarpments and Mormon sanctuaries tunneled therein...

Happy Super Bowl Day…

Perfect time to read a super bowl short story featuring terrorism, Las Vegas eunuchs and a sport gambling oracle published in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social

www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2024...

Several dreams this week from the pov of the avatar player character in dark souls (I have never played dark souls) dying over and over again etc. getting walloped by 12 foot tall knights in glowing blue white armor.

My review of UXA.GOV by Blake Butler, from Inside the Castle, is up now on Full Stop. A movie inside a book beamed from another dimension. t.co/eH1mS4aTA4