James Wagner

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

we should not be satisfied

and I don’t believe we are

leaders in self-satisfied societies are unnerved by interaction with the foreign

in 1434 Chinese leaders cut China off from the world, eventually generating a ‘backward’, weak and stagnant nation

1600s-mid 1800s Japanese leaders enacted Sakoku, basically to maintain supremacy over internal rivals

green, and other sorts, in a raised round planter on East 17th Street, at the top of Union Square (detail)

appreciated as I was leaving the Greenmarket Wednesday

The Biggest Show of the Week! A GOLDEN SHOWER for GOLDWATER A Captive Nations Rally • Featuring the Talents of 30 nations KULR-TW / Chen TODAY 1:30 •m An exciting 90 minute show of Hollywood stars! Colorful singing and dancing • ¡ octe by captive ration groupe and a moving cell to action by John Stormer of "NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON fame. STARRING JOHN AGAR PHILLIP AHN TRIS COFFIN JAMES DRURY BUDDY EBSON DAN HAGGERTY RAYMOND MASSEY MIKE MAZURKI RONALD REGAN GLORIA SWANSON AND PEGGY GOLDWATER HOLT AND IVY BAKER PRIEST STEVENS Sponsored by CITIZENS for GOLDWATER-MILLER

Hard to identify the best part of this 1964 ad--the obvious headline, the misspelling of Reagan's last name, or the shout out to John Stoemer's blockbuster (and howlingly inaccurate) conspiracy-ridden book "None Dare Call it Treason" about the supposedly "treasonous" thread of the US left.

Fernando Pessoa

if you are to know Portugal

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand...

and even tastier
than I expected

U.S. Issues New Sanctions Targeting Maduro’s Family and the Oil Sector

the new
Monroe Doctrine

it’s all mine!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

butter-olive oil-sautéed/basted swordfish, turned, adding zest/halved and smashed garlic clove/slivered pink celery stems, cooked, finished w/lemon/celery tops, lemon wedges;

boiled red potatoes, w/Finnish butter/3 garden herbs

garlic-sautéd Catskills broccoli leaves w/dried Calabrian peperoncino

👍😡

“-ing Area”

early afternoon

when I feel the least safe
and the most aggrieved

“I know you wouldn’t do that,

but you did.”

autocrat

people not in politics for the money?

'bachelors midnight supper

or, faggots-return-from-their-friends supper, after The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions’ bsky.app/profile/line...
Setaro CHITARRA w/good olive oil (not too much) in wh 2 chopped garlic cloves and dried peperoncino had been crushed v slowly, tossed w/parsley

and it's all ours

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

librarians are gods

Trump to make all foreign tourists provide five years of social media history before entering US | LBC The proposed social-media requirement would apply to all visitors, regardless of whether or not they need a visa.

So, if this happens, Canadian artists essentially aren't going to be able to take jobs in the US unless they've been silent on the administration for half a decade (which, let's be honest, is unlikely). Absolutely wild, dystopian stuff.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

the company

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

last night, before it unwound

and before the next one

summoning Mitch

The Smiths Hand In Glove 7 inch single.

#20SongsByYear

1983

Day 6: The Smiths - Hand In Glove

youtu.be/K6uEwpCdV3U?...

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

“Well, first of all, it’s a shocking amount of fun.”

“.. a joyous and defiant celebration of queer community feels deeply necessary, and maybe even a little brave.”

Barry and I are blessed to be able to be there together tonight

I got into this Uberjust 1 1/2 streets west of here 18 minutes ago

“congestion pricing” isn’t enough

congestion elimination is what New York City needs

Anyone who’s ever actually spoken to a single asylum seeker about their experiences in any country in Europe simply could not honestly conclude that what would improve things would be to further reduce their human rights protections.

It’s vile scapegoating unworthy of us & it needs to end #r4today

Germany may have forgotten things

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

I felt dreadfully.

my museum is enormous

the (once upon a time) putative newspaper of record

..has decided not to record

“..the News That's Fit to Print”
was a business and political decision from the start