Elizabeth Scupham

YouTube video by JonBatisteVEVO Jon Batiste - LONELY AVENUE ft. Randy Newman

The kinda blues that's good for what ails you. Wring out all that heartache, leave it on the floor. youtu.be/50W_ePTb5rY?...

WHAT MAKES PROTEST MATTER
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Poster by buffet reads "DON'T THE FOOD WITH BARE HANDS - Use the concern spoon."

me: *reaches for spoon*
spoon: you doing ok? you look tired

Nicholas Fabiano, MD
@NTFabiano
Daytime napping is associated with a larger total brain volume.

“Some things you must always be unable to bear. [..]Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.”

― William Faulkner

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

Writing is thinking.
Don't let AI do it all.

There was the memory of being
The memory of love

Let the water take you in
So your neck is just a stalk, the head blooms

Let everything go away
You are a person

Be a person
Become a person again

Dorothea Lasky

C.D. Wright, “More Blues and the Abstract Truth”

The Intimacy of Being Understood Truth is. I don’t even know how to write this.

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in tiny rented rooms I was struck by miracles — Charles Bukowski

Call me.

“The Antichrists are antichristing each other with antichristly ferocity so I must go and make peace.”
― Leonora Carrington

Utah…

[tomb]

MARY MAGDALENE: *gasps* Where did he go?

[Olive Garden]

SERVER: Everything okay here?

JESUS: [stuffing breadsticks in his mouth] These things are friggin’ fantastic.

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

Gaza is much more than a “humanitarian catastrophe.” It is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions and the long discrediting of the West’s commitment to the very norms it helped develop after World War II.

“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Kai Cheng Thom, from "to a lost sister", Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

If he builds his golden ballroom, how soon can it be torn down?

Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.

Three bananas individually wrapped in plastic on a metal wire shelf.

brought to you by the same species that landed on the moon

Steve Brodner

Al performs “Smells Like Nirvana”

Al performs “Smells Like Nirvana”

Al rocks the accordion

Al performs “Dare to Be Stupid”

Thanks to Rolling Stone photographer Sacha Lecca for these great pics from last Saturday’s show at Madison Square Garden.

You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Walker Percy

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after Congress pulls funding Congress recently voted to strip CPB of its federal funding.

I think it is reasonable to be skeptical of any state funding media. But the thing is, CPB acted with integrity and has a rich history of informing this country. CPB never constrained my reporting. No they helped make it possible. www.axios.com/2025/08/01/c...