Austin Kleon

In many cities, few to no stars are visible at night. Our starlessness erects one further barrier between us and the nonhuman world, and removes the historically lived nightly reminder that we are a small part of something much, much larger than ourselves. I truly believe this causes psychic damage

It’s been 14 years, but almost every week I think about @ftrain.bsky.social’s “Why Wasn’t I Consulted?” as an explanation for otherwise bewildering / annoying responses from folks online

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Great piece.

forgetting why you opened a new tab like forgetting why you walked into a room

Regretting ordering it on LP tbh

“Many arrive at life’s result like schoolboys; they cheat their teacher by cribbing from the key in the math book, without having done the sum themselves.”
—Kierkegaard

“Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.”
—Sherlock Holmes

Animals in Chicago zoo delight in fresh snowfall Tim the brown bear rolled around in snow on Saturday as fresh snow blanketed Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.

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curious people will find a way. incurious people will take what they’re given. this doesn’t change.

I dream about people I see in instagram stories — which is a great reason never to be on instagram

Pimp your book

Daaaaamn!

Liked her shout-out to Hitch’s silent stuff — also realized I’d never actually seen her?!?

It’s great too because that stuff being on a TV show means it makes its way out into the internet. Like, my 10-year-old has never watched the show, but he loves “Running up that hill”

Fifteen Years "Want to feel old?" "Yes."

xkcd's 15 Years: Randall Munroe reflects on the anniversary of his then-fiancée's 2010 breast cancer diagnosis, as he did at year two, seven, and 10 https://xkcd.com/3172/

😍

Typewriter, tip, tip, tip 10 things worth sharing this week + signed books for the holidays

Happy Friday! Here’s my latest list of 10:

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Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist dies aged 63 Gary Mounfield's playing was an integral part of the Stone Roses' sound, and he was in Primal Scream for 15 years.

Mani was one of the great British musicians of the last 30+ years, playing in two of the best British bands of all time. I listen to this musif all the time and always will www.bbc.com/news/article...

From the looks of the pest control shelves at Home Depot, everyone in Austin, apparently:

LOL 💨 I just read this passage from Natsume Soseki’s 1906 novel KUSAMAKURA last night

I’d never heard of him until yesterday — I’ll check out Kokoro for sure

Kusamakura (novel) - Wikipedia

Thanks! I read this today — also pretty chill! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusamak...

You are the second person to recommend this to me based on this prompt — I’ve started it and it’s right up my alley, thanks!

I’m looking for a book — novel or nonfiction — that feels like the movie PERFECT DAYS or one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s albums. Something that could be filed under: “Japanese chill.”

William and Jim drop in for a chat about Psychocandy for Life of the Record podcast. Check out the full podcast here lifeoftherecord.com#/the-jesus-a...

Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem

Happy go touch grass day

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Little rooms 10 things worth sharing this week

Happy Friday here's a newsletter austinkleon.substack.com/p/little-rooms

Typewriter interview with Matthew Zapruder 10 questions about poetry, negative capability, music, and typewriters

I’ve published a baker’s dozen of typewriter interviews now — latest is poet Matthew Zapruder austinkleon.substack.com/p/typewriter...

Teenager destroyed me so completely in Mario Kart that I felt Satie the only appropriate soundtrack. Thoughts of David Shenk’s THE IMMORTAL GAME: “The game is often as much about demolishing your opponent’s will and self-esteem as it is about implementing a superior strategy.”

I’ll be down there tomorrow :-D