Writer for Mashable, Bust, Ordinary Times, and others; author of "The Paris Bureau" 2020 DIO Press Inc, pathological reader, returned expat from Canada, New Yorker at the moment.
Not to say she's a liberal, obviously. Just saying *we* tend to do that, thinking the younger generations are akin to the fans of Elvis that shocked their parents, when, ya know, it's not always that way with generational change.
What? He experiences an involuntary idea of the possibility of visualizing an image at a future date? But also an abrupt desire and a suspicion? (Also the notion “it doesn’t matter what”.) Does that cover it?
Two illustrations from our Crafternoon yesterday: one by me and one by a professional illustrator who happened to be in the bar. What's interesting is mine is *fine* but I can tell right away the other is by an artist by how she composes and knows where to put the lines, colors, etc. I lack that.
This is a random Facebook photo of my friend Sunnie. She looked like this every time you saw her and in every photo. She very much suited her name. I never would have guessed she had ME/CS and I really wish she did not and every one I've ever cared about could live forever.
Today's book: kinda disappointing! It's not so much about Frank O'Hara's poetry as it's about Ada Calhoun's mixed feelings about her father, Peter Schjeldahl, which... okay, but call it "A literary nepobaby laments" or something. No real insights here about O'Hara, her father, or Calhoun.
Today, I spent the most I've ever chipped out for a record, which felt a little weird. But it was less than most record collectors I know spend on, say, original punk 45s, and it's one I would have deeply regretted if I had let it go.
I got a copy of the most frequently "challenged" book in America and just finished reading it. Jeezus! You knew the outrage was hysteria, but it's really outright dissembling about what's in there. One page (of 225) in which the narrator experiments with a dildo and doesn't really like it.
You see documentaries about the Lower East Side in the “bad years” with all these scary vacant lots, and you think they must all have been turned into condo towers by rich real estate developers. Actually, no…
I broke my android phone and got this “dumb phone” and it seems I’ve already broken that. Is this a sign that I should not have a phone? Is that possible in 2024?
Bah! I’m tired of hearing about rich people who are terrible! Tell me about cool people you know, like Mammad Mahmoodi, who founded three tech startups and left it all to feed hundreds of people and make a change.
Like, I don’t know, if you’re going to send this to a weirdo queer writer friend of ours because it’s his birthday and he’s Jewish, maybe you’re just a fucking asshole and you should hold yourself accountable for being a fucking asshole. Ya know?
