Laurie Woolever

Johann Joseph Fux (German: c. 1660 – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrinian style of Renaissance polyphony

tired: GG Allin

wired:

Just stumbled on this threatening photo of GW Bush, with corn

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Leaving home / Coming back Laurie Woolever’s bureaucratic burden; enjoying a family trip with John Saward

The baroquely terrible ways in which The Machines are persecuting @lauriewoolever.bsky.social

(I laughed a lot but it's worrying)

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thinking of her today

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Hey tip-a-tee-tip
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It’s Dominic the Donkey
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The Italian Christmas donkey

just....enjoy this

No Space Like Dome Seeing 'The Wizard of Oz' at the Sphere, Las Vegas

TONIGHT: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social visits, oh my God, the SPHERE in Vegas. “I was suddenly, profoundly grateful to be dead sober, and fearful on behalf of the past and future aging Phishheads and Deadheads trapped in this expensive place, trying to stay upright.” flaminghydra.com/no-space-lik...

DONALD TRUMP'S COMPLETE LIST OF DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WHO CREATED THE HOAX "EPSTEIN FILES"

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Zuckerberg in a black suit and a wig that's a thick, black bob

zuckerberg trying for John Wick this Halloween but ending up more ghislaine maxwell

It appears to be an advertisement for a hoodie that is sewn to look as though skin has been flayed revealing a new underneath

AAAAHHHHHH WHAT IS IT KILL IT WITH FIRE

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

It’s Not About the Cookies There are 182,000 members of the Reddit community, r/vanderpumprules, a subreddit I have been really digging into since I started watching all eleven seasons, in order, of Vanderpump Rules, a reality ...

I wrote about blood donation, Vanderpump Rules and astonishing cookies for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/its-not-abou...

Uta Hagen in the Summer Podcast Episode · Carbface · 08/23/2025 · 1h 3m

New episode of CARBFACE featuring Andy Corren, author of DIRTBAG QUEEN podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Liberal label / Tourist tips Tom Scocca and Maria Bustillos on the latest media flimflam; advice for travelers from Trevor Alixopulos

TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social and @mariabustillos.com chat about The Argument, a new publication that is supposedly For The Left. "So they whiffed instantly on the most volatile topic in U.S. news right now, and I bet not by accident." flaminghydra.com/r/eddbcc67?m...

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

See you in Manhattan with all these smart folks on October 28?

Art for Art’s Sake a fiery writer-owned cooperative

ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social looks at art in Norway. "[I]t would appear that people have been aura farming all along, centuries, in fact, before the age of antibiotics and electricity." flaminghydra.com/art-for-arts...

Show Us the Labubu Podcast Episode · Carbface · 06/24/2025 · 53m

New episode of CARBFACE podcast featuring Helen Cho, the woman behind many of your fave docuseries:

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I wrote about being 23 and delusional in Ireland, for The Places Review:

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At 35, She Left Her Hard-Won Editor Job to Become Anthony Bourdain’s Assistant It was the best decision Laurie Woolever ever made.

“When I left my hard-won editor job, I was 35 years old, an overwhelmed new mother who had once dreamed of rising through the ranks of a magazine.” @lauriewoolever.bsky.social

folks let me tell you: a normal administration is "veep shit." this signal stuff is not veep shit, it's "the entire national security team of the Trump admin is complicit in behavior that ensures that every hostile government has a direct line of sight into American-decisionmaking" shit

Anthony Bourdain’s Assistant Laurie Woolever Reveals His Eerie Final Texts to Her in Emotional Memoir (Exclusive) In an exclusive excerpt from 'Care and Feeding: A Memoir,' Laurie Woolever offers a look inside her relationship with Bourdain — and the weeks leading up to his death by suicide.

My forthcoming book *isn’t* a Bourdain tell-all, but PEOPLE mag knows the angles and kindly excerpted it here: people.com/anthony-bour...

Book tour dates for my forthcoming memoir, CARE AND FEEDING, published by Ecco:

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