My Bookless Mountain Cave

Some pairing these are making, the masculine violence study, which I didn’t expect, in Topeka and its scathing critique, which totally checks out, from Woolf. Both are brilliant btw. #booksky #virginiawoolf #benlerner

He’s having fun here. #mobydick #booksky

Connections is a big nothing, but you can knock it out together over the breakfast table. Wordle is solo only, which kind of stinks. Spelling Bee forever!

Ha! Thanks! Just about 10 pages in. So nowhere. But it’s already a little queasy-making. Brilliant so far.

Roof reading #benlerner #booksky the Topeka school

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Meet me third period in the yard behind the white and purple fence. I’ve got the three footer #ozzy #blacksabbath

Isaac Babel - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

The number of plates spinning, and the myriad relationships of the plates…it’s amazing

20 pages in and this is extraordinary. #sebald #booksky

“Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.” Amen. #mobydick #booksky

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

The feeling when a doctors appointment is over in half the time and your on the way to an egg sandwich and coffee

A new voice in my world. Assuring me it’s ok, you don’t need to write. Just enjoy

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch because they might be dead

Marking her favorites are playing cards from an old Delta flight. #booksky Shell Silverstein

John mulaney show is glorious of course. It’s kind of like the Best Show with Tom Scharpling? In the best way!

Finished for the third time. I cried out seized by the radiant rapture of ruin. #booksky

Very strong casserole today

Real real good so far. Woah. #books

Happy Memzo! #books

Top Hammers: hammer, ball peen hammer, MC Hammer, hammer head shark

Can’t wait to hear Stefan Zweig’s voice again

How do they not think about the sharks when they're swimming that 1,400 miles? Green turtles must have the kind of mind that doesn't think about sharks unless a shark is there. That must be how it is with them.
Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary #worldturtleday

Nabokov does it again

Tony Gilroy deserves a statue. Not some entertainment award, an actual statue, Lincoln monument style.

The Boring Newsletter, 5/18/2024

Hi Friendos, I recently listened to an interview with a financial journalist who says that people don’t need a budget and that budgeting doesn’t work. She published a book called “You Don’t Need a Budget” which I won’t link to because...come on. She says budget…

I think it’s significant that the lions “play” on the beach in the old man’s dream

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

When I hear With or Without You in line at a convenience store I think of how old it is. It was born when I was first awakening to music and will maybe fade as I fade.