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RIP, condolences to his daughter. Passages of "Passage to Juneau" stayed with me for years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/books/jonathan-raban-dead.html
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I’m listening to a legal lecture right now, where the speaker just reminded us that we should advise clients to terminate seasonal employees annually to prevent them from earning paid family leave, and I am again reminded that everything is horribly broken.
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First (published) poem:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/09/sallies-caleb-crain/
@siege My kid is 11, Clue is her favorite movie, the jiggling boobs and other innuendo are completely beside the point. Sounds like Oscar is a recommend?!
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✅ Raining in the Mountain
✅ La Jetée
🇯🇵 Battles Without Honor and Humility
🤥 Pinocchio (2022)
🚣♀️ Céline and Julie Go Boating
Ah, La Jetée. It’s dream logic is as deft as its execution. 💕 #cinema
I’d forgotten how massively influential this photo novel was to my own filmmaking experiments back in the late 90’s. In the early naughts, I wrote (and with a friend, photographed) a photo novel of my own, complete with a unicorn (of a sort) and a werewolf (of a sort).
Post-production never happened. I was in law school, and then I was homeless and poor, and now I am shackled to a very hungry career. But the negatives exist; anything is possible.
All of the stories I tried to tell were queer and filled with trans longing, whether they were about human-sized puppets animated with the swappable souls of birds, or, in this case, the romance between an ugly unicorn and a lonely virgin.
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@pauline I've read that Antonioni ordered the Yardbirds to do that bit because he couldn't be bothered to pay for the Who. Whether true or not, the story perfectly encapsulates the essence of both Antonioni & Beck.
I'm never going to _enjoy_ sticking a long-ass needle in my thigh and my native squeamishness always drags the process out too long; still, each Saturday morning right after making the date with my endocrine system is when it most feels like accounts are settled, briefly, with the world and it might be possible to move on.
For most of the pandemic a bright green kite was stuck 100 feet up in the crown of a pine tree next door. Seeing it always bummed me out, it was a wrong state of affairs nobody could fix.
The atmospheric river finally just shook it loose into our yard. Turns out the bright green quality was owing to it being either a dragon or maybe a T. Rex (because arms).
We hung it on a gate where it flapped in the wind and freaked out the neighborhood cats. Next day it was gone. Could be the original owner has it back now; could be they’ve learned something about pine trees.
TUCSON, 1994 - Our protagonist is listening to “Alive” by Pearl Jam, doesn’t understand that the “she” in the first verse (mother) and the “she” in the second verse (lover) are presumptively different people and gets the same sick feeling occasioned by freaky stories on Usenet
@oulipien I will put out, without judgment, that “rim-blown flute” is also a taxonomy
Selfie. Eye contact.
@nicole Yeah you do!
The only Jeff Beck moment I actually ever got was also the only Antonioni moment I actually ever got. Rock on.
@nicole That is an old dark house!
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@ada That _is_ interesting! To be fair, I totally have those moments of bad lighting/angles/brain chemicals where I think “Oh hell, surgery changed nothing 😭.” But that reaction, along with the happier “I’ve always looked this way and it’s good” reaction, seems connected to being unable to hold “old face” and “new face” as distinct simultaneous entities in my head.
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Eight weeks post #ffs , no longer much swelling to speak of and nerve sensation making its slow return, but the most surprising thing about this mug has been the immediate and total cognitive overwrite of how I used to look. Unless my phone pops up with an alarming surprise from the photo library, it’s already very hard to recall that things were ever any other way.
#trans #transgender
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Katherine Mansfield died 100 years ago #onthisday. To mark the occasion a new essay on our site by Aimée Gasston: “Eating and Reading with Katherine Mansfield”, on the importance of food in the writer's work: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eating-and-reading-with-katherine-mansfield #otd #KatherineMansfield
Give him credit for “xenial” though, for a moment I thought us Xennials were being pandered to
Can’t believe he passed up the easy win of “queers over QAnon”
Esther Kinsky is my informant that London has mini tornados? Frequently? Had no idea God was this angry with Albion.
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Latter-day Austro-Hungarian civil servant; THE WARM SOUTH, 2020 Northern Calfornia Book Award (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781948072038/the-warm-south-a-novel.aspx); web developer; lapsed academic; bad at Zen; 🏳️⚧️
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