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Readers have pointed me to some great stuff with themes related to this story, Yasunari Kawabata’s “One Arm" and Ken Nordine's "What Time Is It." Love these touchstones.

Yep

Drives me batty when people try to argue that the Civil War was about "states' rights." C'mon.

Fascism excels at turning popular culture to its own ends, and at getting humanity to view "its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order." The response, Benjamin says, is to po-liticize art to make work that trains its audience to think critically about so-cial life

Reading this article about Walter Benjamin in the NYer by Anahid Nersessian...and thinking about the videos that the White House has been putting out.

I have German Hoffmans on my mother's mother's side! No idea it connects to this one, tho

Caption: The primary suite occupies the entire second floor. The bathroom (opposite), finished in cement and cedar paneling, includes a urinal-a special request of David's that Stephanie and Pete chose to keep. In the living room (right), the couple replaced a built-in bookcase with an acrylic painting on discarded books titled Today Is Good, Tomorrow Is Better, by Los Angeles artist Mike Stilkey. On a smaller scale, they added orange Kanto REN speakers next to a turntable left by David. "How could I resist?" asks Pete.

They painted the books!!?!!

Snow on trees in the sun.

The morning after the snow storm.

Neither Dad nor the water seem particularly happy about the situation.

Crude drawing of a man trying to put blue water creature into a red pot.

Stumbled across this cartoon my son did years ago.

"Dad tries to put non-potable water in a pot."

Water, mountains, sun streaming left to right

The light this evening over Bear Creek Lake.

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

Jared and the Giant (Can of) Peach(es)

Except for napping. Still napping large.

A correspondent writes, "BTW, The Mouth has been received by my friends with wild excitement." Which is just about the best thing ever.

Haguemaxxing

Photo of a cake with a single candle in the darkness.

Text from beginning of the story: Jake never knew what the mouth would do when he opened it, but, for the most part it, behaved in an appropriate manner. It said please and thank you in polite moments, and it yelled at people when that was the right thing to do, and it said, “You’re crazy,” or “This is a really good pickle,” at times when it made sense to say those things. He didn’t understand why the mouth kept expressing so much affection for IPA beers, and he was a little irritated by the way

#9 of 52 Fictions posted today -- my story "The Mouth." About a guy, his mouth, and the relationship between them...

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dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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ID: a graphic with a black background and images of orange and pink swirls above and below the quote. The quote reads: '"Gaelynn Lea is a true original with immense strength.. ..She has infinite optimism and energy to make the world better." -Jeff Tweedy, Wilco ALGONQUIN.

Thank you so much to Jeff Tweedy for reading Gaelynn’s new book in advance and providing this wonderful quote!

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I wish it didn't need to be said, but, to be clear, there's no AI involved in Erin's illustration work.

Top of a small birthday cake with a few sprinkles and a single candle, surrounded by darkness.

Here's preview of Erin's illustration for tomorrow's story. I love the question mark shape of the ember hidden in the flame.

Happy birthday, Blobby!

Super cool! Congratulations!

Sunset over distant mountains with tree branches spanning the frame from left to right in foreground

Today's gloaming.

My first scan of this read: "Poetry is in the business of threatening the world's desk."

Thank you!

Birds on a wire with sagging wires running below.

Birds and wires.

Rick Scott tries to rewrite history on $1.7 billion Medicare fraud controversy The Republican U.S. senator and former Florida governor cast himself as a victim of “political persecution” outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial.

Well, let's not forget that Rick Scott committed massive Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
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Jil Sander (fall 2026)

Jil Sander (fall 2026)

Jil Sander (fall 2026)

WHAT: Jil Sander (fall 2026)

OCCASIONS: punishing silence or a existential crisis on a Copenhagen street corner when you see your ex holding hands with someone who looks like you but smiles more

IF IT WERE A SCENT: airport body scanner

EMOTIONAL RANGE: watchful/devoted

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A cross between an author unboxing video and Schrödinger's cat where the author opens the box to find out whether the novel is dead.

into the courtroom, overwhelmed the marshals, and snatched Shadrach away to put him on the underground railroad to Canada. While Shad-rach settled in Montreal, where he opened a restaurant, an uproar en-sued behind him in the states. Abolitionists exulted. "This Shadrach is delivered out of his burning, fiery furnace," wrote Theodore Parker. "I think it is the most noble deed done in Boston since the destruction of the tea in 1773." But conservative Boston papers branded the rescue "an outrage.. the triumph of mob law." In Washington, Daniel Webster called it treason, and Henry Clay demanded an investigation to find out "whether we shall have a government of white men or black men in the cities of this country." Determined to snuff out resistance to the fugitive slave law, President Fillmore ordered the district attorney to prosecute all "aiders and abettors of this flagitious offense." A grand jury indicted four blacks and four whites, but juries refused to convict them. "Massachusetts Safe Yet! The Higher Law Still Respected," pro-claimed an antislavery newspaper. But a Savannah editor expressed a more common opinion-perhaps in the North as well as in the South-when he denounced Boston as "a black speck on the map-disgraced by the lowest, the meanest, the BLACKEST kind of NULLIFICATION."9 The federal government soon got a chance to flex its muscles in Bos-ton. A seventeen-year-old slave named Thomas Sims escaped from Georgia in February 1851 and stowed away on a ship to Boston, where he too found work as a waiter. When his owner traced him, the mayor of Boston decided to allow the police to be deputized by federal mar-shals to cooperate in Sims's arrest. This time officials sealed the court-house with a heavy chain (which abolitionists publicized as a symbol of the slave power's reach into the North) and guarded it with police and soldiers. For nine days in April 1851 vigilance committee lawyers vainly sought writs of habeas corpus and tried other legal maneuvers…

I'm reading Battle Cry of Freedom, and the parallels between resistance to the Fugative Slave Law in the early 1850s and contemporary resistance to ICE are extremely remarkable.

(Also, unnerving to note that this historical parallel led to, uh, the Civil War.)