Mark Mauer

Here’s one example why book reviews can be awesome:

Rent-O-Meter news! Rent is due TOMORROW, and we still need to make €750. The week has been up and down and we're lucky to be this far along, but if we get to a good €400 today then hopefully online orders in our off hours will push us over the line.
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It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

Or in ours.

Wow. I hadn’t thought that but you’re absolutely right- there’s an increasing chance we won’t.

Poor buddy.

NIN NASA ground control setup before the dozen technicians came in to run everything.

TEXAS @repcasar.bsky.social : “Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president’s political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That’s what’s happening in Texas right now.”

Those are great covers!

I was coming back from a trip to South Africa, and there was a fat white guy - obv. a big game hunter - sweating in first class as I walked back to coach. We had to make an emergency stop in Tunisia b/c someone had a heart attack on the plane. Guess who!

Century City / West Hollywood

The absolute range of what’s considered “Hollywood” has me trying to group these by some metric that obviously isn’t star power or relevance. I’m thinking zip code. Like, all of these people might have lived in Toluca Lake.

You scored.
So glad you’re opening them and sharing.

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

NEW: “Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

Peanut.

Man, I like late-era Replacements but I don’t think I ever made it all the way to this track. (Skipped ahead to Satellite).

Two copies available. One at $500. One at $700.

Oof. Just checked Amazon prices for that one.

It seems as if Mar-a-Lago's spa and Epstein Island were competitors.

That's a little sad.

I get a little alarmed when Kai says “Holy shit.”

He proposed turning some of Detroit into an Acropolis.
“Midwestern prairie would be allowed to invade from the north. Trees, vines, and wildflowers would grow on roofs and out windows; goats and wild animals—squirrels, possum, bats, owls, ravens, snakes and insects—would live in the empty behemoths

Camilo José Vergara - Wikipedia

Trained as a sociologist with a specialty in urbanism, Vergara turned to his systematic documentation at a moment of urban decay, and he chose locales where that stress seemed highest: housing projects of Chicago; South Bronx of New York City; Camden, New Jersey; and Detroit, Michigan, among others.

A paved courtyard in Los Angeles. Danny, Inside the shopping cart, Angel white shirt, Letty, red dress, Kevin, small boy. Alley w. of Wall St., north of 41st St., Los Angeles, 2002

All of these pictures were taken by Camilo J. Vergara, who has just become one of my favorite artists. I will try to find more on him.

Danny, Inside the shopping cart, Angel white shirt, Letty, red dress, Kevin, small boy. Alley w. of Wall St., north of 41st St., Los Angeles, 2002

Tomas, a cook, planting chiles, his dog Sambo by his side, Alley south of 30th St., east of Walton Ave., Los Angeles, 1996

Horse, view from alley west of S. Main St., east of Broadway, south of 126th St., Los Angeles, 1996 (I saw more horses while living in Los Angeles than I ever saw in Tucson.)

Post your favorite! I’m currently at the Pinata factory, alley between E. 26th St. and E. 27th St., east of Hooper St., Los Angeles, 1999

Just fantastic images.