Matt Walker

Profile banner

Matt Walker

@mattwalking.bsky.social

31
Followers
45
Following
21
Posts
Yes, *that* Matt Walker.
Posts Replies Media
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 20 days
How did I not hear about this? Do we not say Ohtani Shohei? I need more information. www.reuters.com/article/life...
Family comes first: Japan to switch order of names in victory for traditionwww.reuters.com Japan aims to change the way Japanese names are written in English by putting the family name first, the same way they are written in Japanese, in a triumph for conservatives keen to preserve traditional ways in a fast-changing world.
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 2 mo
They say he’s got the magic touch
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 2 mo
Bookstore employee 1: Does Garcia Marquez go under G or M? Bookstore employee 2: Is it hyphenated? B.E. 1: No. B.E. 2: Then it’s M. B.E. 1: Thank you. Overhearing this and not doing anything about it is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 3 mo
Totality. Wabash River, Terre Haute, IN
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 4 mo
Bring back marble busts of writers. (Laurence Sterne and Mary Shelley.)
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 5 mo
But I’ve only seen about 16 of these
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 5 mo
How many years should you spend trying to get a book published before you just give up on the idea altogether
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 5 mo
Trying to name my top 10 favorite novels, I could only think of 7. (Shows you what kind of recall I have.) Weirdly, some of my top 10 favorite novelists don’t have any books I would list among my top 10 favorite novels.
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 6 mo
Not a bad month for movies, only one real clunker. Best was probably Songs from the Second Floor. But I got the most pure pleasure out of Alan Partridge (which I could have sworn I hadn’t seen before, though I kept recognizing scenes…maybe I was remembering the trailer…)
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 6 mo
Great. In other words, the world gains a nebulous scatter of… something, and NYC loses a really cool museum, no doubt to be replaced by condos or some bullshit store. “Museum without walls” makes as much sense as a sandwich without bread.
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 6 mo
Saturday night in Chelsea a fancy SUV slows down as I’m walking past. The driver beckons me over, says he has a question. Figure he wants directions. I can tell he’s a chauffeur, he’s got a passenger in the back. “I am from Dubai…” he says, then something I can’t make out.
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 6 mo
Tonight I had the pleasant surprise to discover an apparently independent movie theater in Queens. Kew Gardens Cinema, a real neighborhood theater. And just $12 tickets! Recommended if you’re in Kew Gardens and want to see a movie.
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 6 mo
boxd.it/8dgEb I just signed up for this
Avatar
Matt Walker @mattwalking.bsky.social · 7 mo
Guten Tag
End of feed.