Rob Ware

Me and my huge lucky’s

Spine of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. A black cover with capitalized white print

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Three high school kids in football uniforms: navy blue jerseys with orange numbers and white pants

Three middle-aged men in casual clothes with a dog half visible behind one of them

Today, I almost managed to recreate a high school pic from 25 (!) years ago with my old friends. I’m #85 in the middle of the old pic and in the black t-shirt on the left in the current pic

Haha no he was he was, but there was a lot of pushback, too, mostly from the rest of Europe but also some in Germany. The Kaiser apparently hated his stuff

That’s the gist of what I’m reading about how his stuff was received

I’ve been reading about Strauss recently and all the “real” sounds he incorporated into his work

(This is a joke.)

(Kind of.)

Read: Dover’s facsimile of the first ed, first print of Ulysses

Research: the 1961 reset of Ulysses

Recycle: the Gabler Ulysses

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Adding bourbon to the “millennials are killing” list

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

NEW: Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, loans and other products to the agency.

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White woman and white man selfie at an outdoor concert venue. She is smiling with oversized glasses, he is maybe about to say something but just looking goofy

Bring totally normal at an outdoor concert last Friday

I believe it’s pronounced “furry”

This is coming to the Salt Lake Film Society, too!

Community colleges live up to their name

Your Colorado map is actually what Utah’s map looks like, but by dividing up Salt Lake, it ensures full Republican representation

“he needed to learn that he had obligations beyond his own interests & personal advancement”

Thinking about the “empathy is destroying Western culture” or whatever idea being pushed by certain aspiring oligarchs.

Respectfully, I think this position kinda falls apart when the alternative the people chose is objectively worse in every respect that you mention. It may simply be a problem of people not actually knowing what they’re voting for

I don’t think I need to see the blocked post to get the gist here

I just did 35 more miles but took it easy. Hopefully I’m not pushing too hard — maybe I’ll take the next week off the bike, just to be safe 😬

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

The important thing about cycling is to look good, not be fast/strong

I don’t know why you’re looking for this, but I hope you find it

First ride after clearing COVID, and oh boy I am not anywhere close to where I was two weeks ago, before getting sick. Did 35 miles with ~6 miles of low-gradient climbing, and I am wrecked.

Amazing how long it takes a body to get back to 70-80% after just a moderate case of that virus 🥵

Plush. Lux. The La-z-boy of phone accessories

Etched!? What’s the medium?

Cat for sale

Every Wiley painting is amazing

Is that map behind you your creation? Like the neighborhood stickers you made, all stuck together?