I am really pleased by the care with which @kaseyryoen.bsky.social and @orionmagazine.bsky.social made this interview about flowers, time, walking, writing, etc.:
orionmagazine.org/article/maki...
(and pleased, gratified, that there are so many images!)
thank you
The [image of the] Trojan Horse Popcorn Bucket reminds me that, relatively early in my childhood, my best friend had an elaborate set of plastic Trojan War figurines, quite tiny, including a Trojan Horse, and they seemed the very height of sophistication. Play with foot soldiers? With footnotes?
olks, if you'll be in the Vancouver area in July, Casse-Tete: A Festival of Experimental Music is happening again!
Lori Goldston, V Vecker, okvancouverok, Raghu Lokanathan, Olive Shakur... it promises to be rich in newness and delight! And free.
See you there!
group chaat > group chat
Do people who write about far northern expeditions say they’ve published a new “Arcticle”? Asking for a friend I love enough to indulge repeatedly. I am my friend.
(the beauty of the format is its sheer malleability)
My Mayor Muslim
My Bagel Jewish
Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni
Knicks in Five
A conversation about how we count, and what we see
one of my slightly unhinged convictions is that failure and success both warp us noticeably, both emotionally and intellectually, with great success having the most marked and consistent effect of making people dumber.
More of a Simon than a Garfunkel guy, but could’ve been persuaded had the latter only called an album “Art for Art’s Sake.”
