(Genuinely sorry to hear you're injured, though.)
Lit. Ph.D. turned TV writer. Learning photographer. Art junkie.
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(Genuinely sorry to hear you're injured, though.)
Chapter 1: MR. KNEE
"We noticed you took out the trash last Tuesday. Great news--we traced it, ran a regression, and returned it to your front steps!"
"This Valentine's Day, she's Blind Justice, he's Judge Dredd..."
The weather can obviously be quite variable, but if Zugspitze is at all representative, early October in the Bavarian Alps certainly has the potential to be mind-blowingly beautiful, as well.
Haha, yes, now that you say so, I am definitely not surprised.
Wow, I can believe it! You weren't kidding when you said far northern Sweden. That looks like a dream.
Whoa, that sounds amazing! I dunno, maybe you can swing this one on short notice, given that experience.
No personal experience with this, sadly, though we did really enjoy visiting Garmisch-Partenkirchen and taking the mountain train up Zugspitze.
#Photography #Ohio #Butterflies ⬆️⬆️⬆️
🎵I see you under the midnight / All shackles and bows 🎵
Oh my god, it's clearly time for a Hot Ones crossover. It's the dog days, so ring the dinner bell and muster the NBA crew for a hot-takes-while-eating-increasingly-spicy-wings episode where the capsaicin flows faster than than the ability to self-regulate. Thank me later, and don't touch your eyes.
Last song on the iPod at our wedding reception, once upon a time.
Nice. Savatage, Megadeth, Dio was my *first* (unchaperoned) concert, February 1988.
Ooh, those are both great, too. Here's Ted and his extraordinary voice, in case you're not familiar. The last few years of his life he was a street performer on Venice Beach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Us...
Long As I Can See the Light? Creedence, of course, but also the Ted Hawkins version.
We will get another shot at some point, I feel sure!
Tom Clancy's Nightwood
Love to see it! Just sorry we missed you this round.
You're welcome! Would love to hear what you think of the Ditlevsen short stories, once you've made your way through.
Just adored the Copenhagen Trilogy--read for the first time last year, while actually in Denmark. Very different sort of work (and hardly obscure), but I also really enjoyed Johannes V. Jensen's The Fall of the King, if you're looking for more classic Danish fiction.
"Hotdog! Free of Sandwich Charge!" Rules Grand Jury, Quashing Anti-Hero Debate
cayenne / "Ya, kin!" is the best I can do for the moment
I appreciate that, man. Thank you, the feeling's mutual. I promise, I wouldn't engage at all if I didn't feel the same. 🥃
(I do see now where we disagree, though, and it's not as if I don't understand where you're coming from.)
You're 100% right that nowhere is immune to collapse, and I'm certainly not arguing not to fight. I just don't feel great about asking others, especially those with limited power, to stay and suffer for the sake of principle. I mean, some places are objectively worse for some people.
I hear you, and obviously there's a spectrum of wealth and assholishness. I'm just also personally seeing actual, traumatic life disruption where people can no longer safely practice their professions. Are they refugees? No. Do I think poorly of them for trying to leave? Also, no.
This seems unnecessarily harsh to me. Not interested in arguing, just wanted to register my disagreement--especially since we're so often on the same page.
As you see, I'm a huge advocate, unsettlingness and all. I'm so grateful to the professors who brought his work into our classroom, as well as just for the shared space to read and discuss and absorb. I hope you do read his stuff someday!
Oof, I'm sorry you were blindsided. It's so viscerally sharp. Can you imagine watching in NYC in 1964, when it premiered? Jones/Baraka truly is a writer who made a deep and lasting impression on me. His (non-fiction) book Blues People is another knockout, though it's been a long time since I read.
So fantastic! I haven't seen the film version, but I read the play in college and it's stuck with me ever since. Baraka wrote it as LeRoi Jones, before he changed his name.
There once was a frog in a spot who brayed and bemoaned his cruel lot, but his neighbor--no king-- knew the rare, wiser thing was to fly on those wings that you've got. #Photography #Wildlife #Ohio
*hump
You bet! (And the subject you're exploring is intriguing!)
Is TULIP FEVER too obvious? Also adapted as a film in 2017.
proof of life #Photography #Flowers #Light
I have just taught my 81 year old mother-in-law to say “yo, let me cook” when my husband interrupts her and I might be unmarried soon.
How about Morgan Spector? I've been enjoying him most recently in The Gilded Age, but also loved his performance in The Plot Against America.
Apropos of nothing, from a few years back.
"Flour" is also sitting right there, for the sake of an alt.
Well said. With great sourdough comes great responsibility.
slightly diminish a band¹: Streaming ¹Television en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televis...
slightly diminish a band: Alloyica
Maybe also The Bear? (In both cases I'm thinking of pretty dramatic shifts over time.)
The Rehearsal.
One of the best specials there is, from one of the best to ever do it. Go see @mariabamford.bsky.social, any chance you can.
tender mercies #Photography #Birds #LosAngeles
When you're a prohibition speakeasy and the decor is as expected: situation normal all flocked up
Relatedly, my first thought was Midsommar.
Congrats, man. That's a meaningful moment to mark and celebrate!
Back in May 2021 I posted on twitter about a journey I'd undertaken to find a tree that I can see from our bedroom window. I've decided to post it verbatim on here as lots of people really enjoyed it. So, here it is…
I have a beloved cousin who cooks the hell out of this, too. Comfort food, for sure!
Yup. That whole show ate, my fellow youth!
(I don't always capitalize titles, but in this case it seemed, uh, important.)
AMERICANS hive activate!
(Ah! I guess we follow each other over there already. My bio is pretty much the same, different handle notwithstanding.)
Ooh, I love that you write about the city's cemeteries! I find Mt. Carmel especially fascinating for its oddball combination of Catholicism and connection to the history of organized crime. Even wrote a poem about it myself at one point, though sadly as yet unpubbed.
That said, I also really value the folks I've interacted with there. Lots of good conversation over time, though largely topic specific--photography, film/TV, etc.
Yup, I'm still there, though pseudonymously. (Certainly happy to find you and say hi, if you'd like.) I personally don't mind the multiple servers--there are feeds that let you interact across most everything--but in truth I find this place a little more congenial. More active, less serious.
Cliché, sure, but truly, try to relax and be yourself--you're meeting a potential friend and creative ally. Share a story that makes you you; connect it to a script you're especially proud of; listen, listen, listen. What are *their* dream projects? Do they have any advice for you specifically?
Mastodon feels pretty European to me, though of course it isn't solely. Created by a German developer, anyway.
The novel is fantastic. This makes me very happy!
Commissioned in *2016,* from the extremely talented, prescient @timmaughan.bsky.social.
Never tell Joey he can't date the nanny! (Apologies if you're not a Friends fan. We've been rewatching.)
I love digital photography, but I really do think the safety net in post is so huge that we've lost much of the precision necessary for film. (I'm sure *you* still have that level of craft--just speaking of the broader environment.) What was your subject? Like a static center amid lots of movement?
blue view #Photography #LosAngeles #SantaMonicas
Aside from Richard Smith being awesome, the other thing I take from this video is about the way art works. The music industry is a mess of commercial fakery but that never eliminates entirely the space for passion and talent. Just like how ceramic artists exist in a world where Ikea sells crockery.
You truly do gotta keep 'em (viz., people and infectious diseases) separated
Not to mention "constant affirmation machine."
SLAW #MildHorror
I thought so, though very mild over here.
I like Gene Shalit! I just get twitchy when our shared nickname periodically reenters the discourse.™️
Oh boy, here we go.
Setups/payoffs is *such* a helpful framework for revision.
scope #Photography #Landscape #California
I mean, yes, but for the record, also: I met Steph's mom, Ayesha, and the Emperor of Ice-Cream.
These sorts of pining female portraits definitely seem to be a specialty of his.
I've always liked this one from the Norton Simon in Pasadena (sadly, not currently on view): www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/M...
“The survival rates from first year staff writer to co-producer seemed very low, so we wanted to create a triage program that gets people the information they need, right when they need it.” #Writtenby www.writtenby.com/career-craft...
"We cannot get out. The end comes. Puffins, puffins, in the deep."
"Repost one puffin, and for the rest of your life..."
I enjoy puffins! Nevertheless.
My feed has somehow become overfitted to photos of puffins.
Have you read any Frank Norris? If you liked Grapes, I bet you'd love The Octopus.
Looks like I photoshopped these Atlantic Puffins in next to The Wick area sign but with so many birds on Skomer they are often walking past & got lucky with these 🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #naturephotography #ukwildlife #photography #naturetherapy #birds #seabirds #puffin @rspbcymru.bsky.social
Stately ✅ Plump ✅✅ Buck Mulligan ✅✅✅
#Dragonfly #LosAngeles #NotAI ꜛꜛꜛ
This got a genuine lol. ...with the pets, the family silver, Dad's favorite t-shirt, etc., etc.
Best photo of the weekend. The almost best never happened, and that's probably good. Two hikers coming up the mountain this morning as I was heading down saw a bear tumble onto the trail in front of them, express what seemed like polite surprise, then lope off into the scrub. #Photography
Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole
Me, too! Totally bonkers.
(Or maybe it was Great Horned Owls. But still!)
So cool. I don't think I've ever seen a Peregrine in the wild! Do you know the insane Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter, during which a group of itinerant carnival workers lost an extended firefight with (likely) Barn Owls, having mistaken them for aliens? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E...
These are great! What a landscape! I've also been finding hiking good for the soul of late.
This article drives home the financial precarity of creative work, even among artists who have had their measure of fame. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
That fills my heart, at a moment it could use all the filling it can get. Genuinely glad to hear it.
So happy to see some Hayes Carll love! KMAG-YOYO is a long-time personal favorite.
1997, ahead of the game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=emc0...
I think this is especially true for specific high praise. There's a ton of incentive to be generally complimentary and non-confrontational, but only the true sociopaths will *do extra work* to spell out praise they don't believe.
