Aren’t those folks lovely? Look forward to listening
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Sunday in Austin during SXSW - @endofanear.com
Miss the pre-makeover Biden years when he’d just have ppl with cool books on, sort of nerd dad fresh air
LMAO. He just needs Nutsy and Trigger at his elbows
Catching up on my Oscar viewing
I’m really sorry to hear this. Let me know if there’s a way I can help other than boost/buy
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Haha yes!!
Really didn’t have becoming a huge Sherlock Holmes nerd on my mid-life bingo card, but here we are
One of my favorite endings in Sherlock Holmes stories is when Holmes has some dude cornered and the dude is like, “I loved her! I would’ve died for her! That’s why I killed her murderer with this weird African root powder nobody else knows about” and Holmes lets him go because he’s impressed
Jackasses in Texas driving white $80k extended cab nonsense getting 10mpg could never
Here's a playlist of 40 Isley Brothers classics from four decades. Hard to think of another group that has excelled across so many different musical genres - rock'n'roll, R&B, soul, funk, disco, slow jams, pop, AOR, protest songs, folk rock...
▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/07T...
The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Orson Welles, 1996).
One of my favourite photos – dated 12 February 1967, but no other details. From this flickr collection of library buses: flic.kr/ps/oGfN8
Here's some green for you
You could have a whole segment in the newsletter: Anne eBays
Those rule. I’m making this my new thing
God I hate to say this out loud but I bet you could feed AI a Barbara stanwyck movie and it could make a model you could 3-D print 👀 I’m going to look and see if anybody has done this
You don’t need capitalism — you need some high school pottery students! 😂
When I was watching THE PRICEMASTER for the 20th time recently, I thought, “That Don Quixote bust is killer.” austinkleon.substack.com/p/tuesday-tr...
We need to bring back busts
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Plus, it’s really fun to play with side A / side B, which isn’t possible with playlists
austinkleon.substack.com/t/mixtapes
the mixtape is superior to the playlist precisely because of its limitations: what selections from the maker’s music collection can fit on a C-90. & it was a labor of love, pushing record, stopping just in time, over & over. not to mention intricately thought-out cover art on the insert
@add-hawk.bsky.social reading THE SCORE in the same week I watched the birding documentary LISTERS makes me think you'd really enjoy it (it's about when a ranking/scoring system takes over a pleasurable pasttime!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
