Joel Calahan

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Apprentice philologist. Poetry teacher. Chair-leg hero.

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Sugar Ray Robinson, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5147/

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Using "DEI" as an adjective and instantly getting the worst bleu cheese breath imaginable. The air shimmers like a hot road where my breath has just been. A child across the room starts crying.

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Study for a Portrait, by Francis Bacon, 1952, 📸 via @MenInBlazers

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for me the Biden conversation is entirely about whether he can win in November. i’m not worried about whether he can actually do the job because i don’t think it’s a real job.

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it goes like this the fourth, the fifth -someone describing the end of this week

Drop the most powerful image in your gallery with zero explanation

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

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The prophecy has been fulfilled.

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all rise for the national anthem music.apple.com/us/album/roa...

Roadrunner (Once) by The Modern Lovers & Jonathan Richman on Apple Musicmusic.apple.com Song · 1976 · Duration 4:44

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reskeet for awareness

Simpsons photo dump

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If you gave me infinite guesses on who owns those Redbox DVD rentals I wouldn’t have gotten it

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, a summer story framed as a memory of a lost time and culture, is once again an afternoon read that lingers a long time. This time I thought a lot about the narrator’s empathy to the unknown fresco painter as well as to the children in the village.

Indian Summer is a delight, not only for the awkward May-December romance that manages to avoid the creepy but also for the lovely commentary on middle age. Howells gets the dramatic irony of a witty man who can’t seem to find happiness.

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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public

Incredible goalkeeping by Diogo Costa. Just in another level.

The crimes may not be illegal, but the cover-up…that is no longer illegal.

i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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Preview of my upcoming NYT op-ed on what to do.

Spain own goals! Incredible result to now.

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Saint Jude (or Saint Thaddeus), by James Tissot, 1886-94

Great win for England.

Bicycle in stoppage time! Sick!

The Roots with Common, Digable Planets, Black Sheep, Arrested Development, and Queen Latifah. Pretty fucking great scene.

❌ And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ✅

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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❌ Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— ✅ It was late and I was tired. Shit got weird.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

Lfg

The Threadgill autobiography is a breeze. The Zelig of free jazz: all the expected stuff about AACM plus stories about Vietnam, Chicago city colleges, New York art loft improv, Count Basie, Artur Rubinstein, Coltrane, and so on.

Pairs well with the shit sandwich they serve.

Well, now it's up to federal judges to closely examine and decide what to do with "fecal soup."