Marla Lepore

No Let's Active music on streaming services? It's an omission that will soon be fixed "When I looked on Spotify and saw that Let's Active was not there, I thought it must be a mistake," Timothy J. Smith said of the beloved indie band from

I’m lucky to have the physical copies, but everyone needs easy access to the Let’s Active catalogue 🎶 fab news

Indie bands from the 1980s “honed their craft on the road, connected with fans and had an authenticity that can't be replicated by AI-generated music.”

journalnow.com/life-enterta...

Good old Woz. Good for him.

49 years ago today
Richard Hell and the Voidoids made their debut at CBGB in New York, November 19, 1976

Richard Hell – vocals/bass
Robert Quine – guitar
Ivan Julian – guitar
Marc Bell – drums (soon to adopt the name Marky Ramone)

#punkrock #punklegends #richardhell #cbgb #punkrockhistory #otd

Julian Sancton’s “Madness at the End of the Earth.” Charles Spencer’s “The White Ship.”

“It made me dare to hope.”

"I voted" sticker on David Johansen t-shirt

Postcard that says: Hi Marla, Thank you for being a voter! Your friends and family may need your reminder to vote. Please ask them to vote in the Tues. Dec, 2 Speial Election for US Congress. Thank you!! Robin

Very strange feeling to have a congressional race in Tennessee that anyone at the national level cares about. This is the first time I've been on the receiving end of a postcard campaign...

Yeah you don't see them in the *cities* in the south, but you definitely see them in the rural areas (along with the giant trump banners)

Eliot Weinberger, The Art of the Essay No. 4 “Except for my less than two years at Stony Brook, I’ve never been in any scene or community, ever.”

"People always ask, 'Who’s your ideal reader?' Mine is somebody who reads a few pages and then falls asleep and has a fantastic dream." @parisreview.bsky.social

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

Human Authored Certification - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not...

FWIW (and maybe not a whole lot): authorsguild.org/human-author...

Impossible that no one recorded it

Only took about 5 minutes at the Lentz Public Health Center today

Tulane’s Katrina Generation More than two decades after Hurricane Katrina, Tulane alumni reflect on the storm that tested their resolve, shaped their purpose and strengthened a community.

“Tulane taught me not to give up, that community is real, culture matters and the road less traveled is scary but rewarding.”

Love this story about Tulane's Katrina generation--and that 450+ colleges offered to take in Tulane students, tuition free, that fall.

tulanian.tulane.edu/fall-2025/tu...

Pulp: Tiny Desk Concert Jarvis Cocker croons, coos and dances his way through this career-spanning Tiny Desk with Pulp.

the very best Tiny Desk

And it’s been known since at least the early 2000s that you shouldn’t be taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

A very cool interactive deep dive.

Great reporting. (Also, we need a new season of The Wire)

Me outside the student media room at Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, Louisiana

Poster in the student media room at Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, Louisiana: "Peter Parker and Clark Kent were both journalists. Coincidence? I think not."

Fun visiting my high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, as part of our reunion weekend. Back when I was editor, The Enterprise was a newspaper -- now it's a magazine. Looks like Captain Shreve is doing a good job of inspiring student interest and opportunities in journalism!

Sweet beagle in a witchy/princess costume

Sweet beagle in a witchy/princess costume

Orange cat in a bumblebee costume having a few treats

Orange cat in a bumblebee costume wondering how it has come to this yet again

Happy Halloween from Lucy and Emmylou Hairy (stress-eating her treats). They are thrilled, I tell you, thrilled to once again don their costumes. #cats #dogs #halloween

Orange cat sleeping on top of a plastic dry-clean-wrapped formal gown laying on a bed

Obviously I blame myself. Impossible to resist plopping down and getting comfy-cozy on a freshly dry-cleaned formal gown. #cats #catsofbluesky

One Four Two Five Old Sunset Trail, by Joy Williams On the last days of Gene Hackman

“The scenario was incoherent. Yet it could not have happened differently on this earth. If it could have it would have.”

A lyrical, devastating meditation on time, death and Gene Hackman's last days

A new fund will route millions to the literary arts A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.

A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years. n.pr/3WYkn3o

They’ve been killing it for a while now. Did a great piece on Project 2025 last year.

Proud of you, Nashville.

#NoKings

Dear Traveller, You have reached the end of the journey that led you to climb the Palatine Hill and walk, with your eyes but above all your imagination, in what remains of the Farnese Gardens, scattered amid the ancient, ruins and vegetation today. Here, on this very spot, travellers, writers, artists, men and women of culture and enthusiasts of art and archaeology paused before you. Like them, you can enjoy the charm of the hour, and with a purified and understanding gaze contemplate a panorama of "unheard of richness", just as Johann Wolfgang Goethe did before you. He also visited this place, where you sit now, and described the sensations he felt. «That same evening we went for a walk in the gardens on the Palatine which have reclaimed the waste spaces between the ruins of the Imperial palaces and made them attractive. There, on an open terrace beneath magnificent trees, with fragments of ornamental capitals, smooth and fluted columns, bas-reliefs etc., strewn all around us in a wide circle in the same way that tables, chairs and benches are arranged for a merry party out of doors, we enjoyed the lovely hour to our beart's content, and when, at sunset, we surveyed the panorama with freshly washed eyes, we bad to admit that, even after all we had seenthat day, this picture was still worth looking at. Drawn and coloured by someone with Cassas's taste, it would arouse universal enthousiasm» Goethe, Italian Journey, September 1787, London 1970, p. 392. Translated by W. H. Auden and E. Mayer.

Dear Traveller,
You have reached the end of the journey that led you to climb the Palatine Hill and walk, with your eyes but above all your imagination...
Here, on this very spot, travellers, writers, artists, men and women of culture and enthusiasts of art and archaeology paused before you...
#Rome

This had to be intentional!

The Cat Who Woke Me Up The hierarchy that places humans above cats has broken down. I know, in a way I once didn’t, that cats and dogs and birds and bees and every living creature are conscious in a way that’s too hard for ...

"How often Cirrus pulled me out of my gloomy thoughts, my preoccupations, my melancholic reveries, just by entering a room."

Sy Safransky for The Sun: www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/598...

Thrilled to have my essay published in the fall issue of North American Review! "Real People" is an ode to inventing yourself and realizing the power of not "fitting in," featuring Fiorucci, Klaus Nomi, Richard Hell, David Bowie, the new wave, and seventh grade villains and allies.

And don't psych yourself out and convince yourself you can't build the habit. For me, it turned out not to be that difficult to get into the groove of it, and now I just regret that I didn't do it sooner so I could have enjoyed the benefits sooner.

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...