David Connerley Nahm

the question for all the already actually rich people in entertainment is do they make stuff for these people (and amazon) or are they just wearing cute red carpet pins

Gayle Jones is great. I just got Mosquito and hope to read/reread all of her work this year.

Thank you--I needed this pick me up.

Robert Coover’s J. Henry Waugh : fantasy baseball :: Gerald Murnane : imaginary horse races

Book release party at IP III or Carrburritos?

This is pretty good news as I’m a fan of @adamoprice.bsky.social. The Hotel Neversink is a great book.

This guy does the “good writing” so many are taking about.

[checking the roster for the city's summer music festival]
social distortion?... limp bizkit... the guess who... cypress hill... shaggy?

Thank you for all the hard work!

There is never a bad time to note that Mathias Enard's novels are all great and that @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social's fantastic translations make it possible for me to read them (as I am certain that my three years of high school French from the early 90s would ne cut it pas).

"Neil Young was never normal."

The bass player in our band has flatwound strings on his Rickenbacker. I love the sound.

Child asking me about photographs in my office…

”…is this one your mother, or your teacher?”

“That is Iris Murdoch, my favorite novelist and philosopher”

“Is this one your mother?”

“…that is also Iris Murdoch.”

I just find it very soothing to move them around.

The youngest author on the livingroom bookshelf: Mathias Enard (1972). Not likely to change as no one younger than me is allowed. I'm not even allowed.

It was in no way necessary and was an inconvenience to the people I live with.

But I did learn that AS Byatt is one year older than Thomas Pynchon, which I had not expected.

I spent the weekend rearranging the books on my part of the main bookshelf in the living room.

I switch from organizing them based on "I feel like this goes here" to "roughly chronological based on when the author was born, unless that would cause an author's books to be split between shelves."

David Cronenberg's asthma inhaler

Alien Whimsy, by the re-enactments 12 track album

Do you enjoy misanthropic melancholic baroque lofi bedroom orchestral pop music?

Keep honking! I’m listening to the LibriVox recording of Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 gothic masterpiece “The Mysteries of Udolpho” and am so engaged by the voluptuous prose that I missed my turn and now I am lost, traveling along an empty lane, the trees bending ever closer, an endless horrid embrace.

“Luminous or something, I guess.”
—Brad Johnson

(c) is better for everyone involved. When I pickup a book in the store, I can tell which blurbs are half-hearted.

Oh I get it—the face definitely has the “kid draws imaginary friend in horror movie” feel.

Two scrubbies shaped like faces.

I don’t know where it got started.

These are Mama Scrub and Daddy Scrub.

They are her Pokémon.

Keith Emerson Moogmogged Rick Wakeman. I am almost certainly going to delete this

A scrubbie with a face drawn on in marker.

This is Dawn.

At the grocery, my daughter asked to look at the dish scrubbies. She has a whole collection. She bought new one to draw a face on and play with.

On the way to the car she said she was overwhelmed with excitement because she was “starting a new adventure” with this scrubbie and I almost cried.

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Neil Young & The Restless - Paramount Theater, Seattle, Washington, February 21, 1989 Another Neil Young Sunday re-up! The Restless deserve to be mentioned alongside Neil’s greatest backing...

Neil Young & The Restless - Paramount Theater, Seattle, Washington, February 21, 1989 (a classic tape)

I like sports headlines that could also be summaries of medieval chivalric romance

The cover of Louis Zukofsky’s “A”