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"The fundamental critical act...is the act of recognition, seeing what is there, as distinct from merely seeing a Narcissus mirror of our own experience" - Northrop Frye. I agree & whenever I come across some form of the phrase "I relate[d]" I know I'm dealing with an amateur

"Reincarnation is not a doctrine, whether true or false: it’s experience, a kind of self-guided fantasy. The conception of interpenetration makes it easy to see how one can enter various personalities" -- Northrop Frye #fryeday

Is there a section in the late-stage Capitalism manual whereby two petulant billionaires, one a perennially trippin'-balls drug addict, the other a convicted sex-offender US President, have a pissing match on social media while the rest of us die? Asking for 100 million friends

I mean, can we unretire a nickname? #mrclutch #tyresehaliburton #pacersthunder #sorryjerry

"To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism" -- Julia Cameron, "The Artist's Way"

One indicator of your class origins — a tell that’s never failed me: if you’re an adult who puts their hands on glass doors or display cases, that demonstrates you come from the class of people who’ve never had to clean them

If you're in DC on Saturday & want to avoid the spectacle in which Trump turns Constitution Ave into Red Square circa '78, I and a number of other talented DC improvisors will at the The DC Arts Center joining Kevin on stage capping off a fun night of improv popville.com/events/kevin-m…

*puts on "The Warmth of The Sun," begins sobbing* So long, Brian...

"He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation" -- Joyce, "Ulysses" EnJoyce, everyoneofus! It's #bloomsday2025, the 121st, FactSoSeem

"...the lust for sadistic power on the part of the ruling class is strong enough to last indefinitely, which is precisely the assumption one has to make about devils in order to accept the orthodox picture of hell" -- Northrop Frye

Legendary Wrecking Crew bassist Carol Kaye's declining to be inducted into the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the most bass player decision to ever bass

“The cult of beauty, then, is reactionary*: it is continually setting up barriers to the conquest of experience by art, and limits the variety of expression in art wherever it can” — Northrop Frye *by “reactionary,” Frye of course means “fascist”

So. Damned. True. Every. Damned. Word #Veteran

Any one of your 10-best ballots for the NYTimes "100 Best Movies of the 21st Century" that doesn't contain "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" is invalid

Went to the 9:30 Club’s anniversary exhibit last night at The Atlantic. Great stuff, but it made me melancholic for past eras, times, people. Like That Guy At The 9:30 Club. Miss you, Josh.

"Harvard did not have a full-time tenured woman in the English department until 1981 (Marjorie Garber). It did not tenure a woman from within the English department until 2003 (Leah Price)" -- Louis Menand, "The Free World"

Michael Madsen has left us. TIL from his obituary that he trained at Steppenwolf in Chicago. The colossal amount of theater and film talent that theater has produced, and he was one of their best. So long, MM.

Your fireworks: safely launched & monitored by demolitions experts/first responders in whatever municipality you live near on July 4th My fireworks: launched by Molly-ridden hippies on Burn Night @ Burning Man as a 70-foot effigy is gas-bombed into oblivion We are not the same

I'm only three episodes in to Apple TV's #HelloTomorrow but man am I ever *in*. How to describe it? The best I can do: it's as if "Glengarry Glen Ross" were somehow set inside "Pleasantville" but accompanied by a darker, more menacing PhilDickian sensibility. Highly recommend.