Mark Clemens

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slightly bald, also dances

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Tiki Barber: good running back, great business idea

Need a 12" release of Miguel "Adorn" b/w "How Many Drinks"

Someday they’ll make prestige tv that doesn’t rely on pop music cues for the heavy lifting. And I probably still won’t watch it, but I’ll be glad to hear about it.

MFA buddy wrote some incredible divorce poems. Proud of him.

three different tornado sirens going in and out of phase right now. very beautiful.

were commercials affected by the writers' strike? they all stink so bad

Ruskin could’ve posted

Ving Rhames Reads the Border Ballads

would you like to hear a beautiful song www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_HB...

Flatlanders - Keeper Of The Mountainwww.youtube.com From "One Road More" 1972.Joe Ely - Dobro, Guitar, Harmonica, Vocal Harmony Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Composer, Guitar, Vocals Butch Hancock - Composer, Guitar,...

Evelyn “Champagne” King, “Shame” on the grocery store PA 👍

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i'm so mad at the left for continuing to fall in love with me..i'm not looking for that right now

fit check

For the record, in this house we have always believed in Nick Castellanos

Revisiting Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (h/t @martynwendell.bsky.social), didn’t remember the factoid that Lolita was publicized using negative reviews as blurbs

Walking around town I cut through an urgent care parking lot where I observed a single firefly. Poor bastard.

Yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in her arme

The paywall prevents me from seeing the nyt book list, so I guess I’ll live to see my daughter born

Dad gave me a ton of beet greens. What can I do with these.

That one ineluctable homie

I know not from what vessel cup 3 will be drunk, but cup 4 will be lapped from the weird divot in the break room floor

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i love entering my data on enteryourdata dot com

Just saw the El DeBarge/Sheila E session from a couple years ago

My main problematic faves probably Pepys and Chuck Berry, likely not a coincidence neither of them makes big claims about what is best in life

filling out a survey from my insurance carrier

Had a complicated response to Wendell Berry's The Hidden Wound and tried to hash it out a little bit here. Don't have much theoretical grounding here just calling em like I see em. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Mark (Wheaton, IL)’s review of The Hidden Woundwww.goodreads.com Berry's approach to race clarifies some of the strengths and limits of his overall project. It is obviously good that he condemns chattel slavery, the Jim Crow regime, US racism in general in the hars...

sanxingdui terracotta swine ⬇️

Deli cold cuts and cheeses…sandwich week coming

Listening to the Durutti Column is humbling in a unique way; he's often just noodling in ways at root very similar to how I used to noodle on guitar, but several orders of magnitude more complex/interesting. Like "dude, you couldn't even *fuck around* properly"

wife made strawberry jello pretzel salad; I've condensed all the poetry and drama into one bookcase: a damn independence day miracle

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