du côté de chez rob

The most annoying person you know just captioned “IYKYK” on basic instagram photo of a Starbucks order

good time to do it, now that elon's twitter is in a complete shambles!

The Right: YOU MUST HAVE BABIES. YOU MUST HAVE SO MANY BABIES. THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU HAVING BABIES RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Also the right: Hold our Huel real quick while we destroy civilization

Keep coming back to this poem by David Schubert, it’s quickly becoming one of my all time favorites

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

poets should have high-quality public transit so they don’t need to use those licenses. interstate 35 is always threatening to turn me into a bernhardian ranter

I think I’ve gotta be chalant about this

no

it’s way too soon, but he deserves it!

Mussolini made the trains run on time but Trump’s new streamlined FAA has the planes landing early:

I fear its people like me giving us a bad name, lol. I dread the moment when a student asks me what I “do for fun.” “Uh, Russian art cinema? Can we
give it up for Andrei Tarkovsky? No? I also like Pierre Boulez, gotta be a few IRCAM stans in here, right?”

julian of norwich-ass fragrance

Forsyth Park, Savannah, GA

when cats curl up so much their faces go upside down rt if you agree

Nolan should transpose the odyssey onto the Great Depression and make Odysseus a prisoner on a chain gang who escapes and becomes a folk singer / hero

Imperial Bösendorfer - Wikipedia

i just want to make it 100% clear that i am open to receiving one of these if you are rich and want to be my patron. to be clear, i am a fairly shitty pianist and don't really have room in my house, but i can get a new house (for about the same price as the piano): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...

RIP schopenhauer; you would have hated leaf blowers

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

eugene thacker:

didn’t know he went in for the bernard-henri lévy “suit and white shirt unbuttoned halfway” smoldering public figure look

I do just need to say that if I were going to make up an Italian guy I would probably called him Luigi Mangione

It gives real “JK Rowling says he’s the Italian wizard at Hogwarts” energy

got to love that silky pentameter. soft to the touch.

and strava

it's the "fungible transcendentals" one, about boredom in the pale king. i wrote an essay on tpk when it first came out (and i was still in grad school) and to my complete shock, got invited to contribute a chapter to that volume years later. i did what i could as a beleaguered comm. college guy 😂

whoa, is it the bloomsbury one edited by mcgowan? if so, i’m in it …

gaddis’s carpenter’s gothic and a complete bashō (which preserves exact syllable counts like by line !!!)

just about anything by can xue!

Long-haired tan and black tabby cat perched on a blue ledge of a cat tree.

Long-haired, gray and black tabby, cat standing and looking straight at the camera from the inside of a cubby. There’s a gray blanket on the ground.

Bluesky, looking for a home for an adorable bonded brother and sister born in the same litter in Northern VA. Kitties are 16 MO and need a loving home. These are 2 super affectionate and adorable furballs. Help me amplify this message to find these little ones a home this holiday season.

that was my introduction to pessoa! had to get the zenith too (and the poetry, and the biography, etc.). you are in good hands with jull costa.