Women participate in a rooftop spin cycle class in Odesa, Ukraine, as smoke rises from a Russian missile strike on a warehouse elsewhere in the city, June 2024.
30 years ago harold bloom was like "zounds my students are no longer tolstoy completists"
now english profs are like "i no longer read & i'm concerned my best students cannot complete watching mr beasts 1000 ducks vs grizzley bear 3 minute video homework"
The “Hegelian egirls” are throwing a launch party in NYC Saturday August 3rd celebrating the announcement of a series of collaborative initiatives both online & in person 🥰 you’re all invited & we hope to see you there! RSVP on Partiful for the address ❤️
Some $70 million of art from MoMA, including masterpieces by Picasso, Renoir and Rodin, will be sold this fall to fund the museum's new push into digital
these stories of submarines are insane:
“When the dolphins disappeared then you realised you’re safe. They stayed with us the whole 84 hours, thousands of dolphins arrived to look after us, they knew there was a problem.
Captain Matt gasda, 07/03/1863: my brother in arms jebediah was killed today by a Lib bayonet at the battle of sharlenes , we have been driven back to Tile bar, while wounded men call for fernet
The childhood home of William F. Buckley is on the market in Sharon, Connecticut.
Very WASPY 8 bedroom, 9 bathroom home with 7 fireplaces. Surprised it’s not owned by a non-profit. Selling for $5.5 million.
t: tell me about the origin of origins of dimes square--
p: no! we begin the St. Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257 – c. 331 AD) traditionally regarded as the first Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church...
sent out a mass blast today asking friends to try to make Dimes Square & Other plays the
#1
theater book... well it's gone from
#7
,000 to
#66
in about 5 hours...
the next step in the scene is people creating fake people to talk about as if theyre real, pure mimesis
in a borgesian move there will be no physical downtown by 2030 just fictions
Arguably 97-98 with peak MJ, Seinfeld, roided mlb hitters hitting dingers, titanic, strong economy, affordable housing, and anarchistic internet 1.0 was peak millennials glimpsed as children never to return to
Anyone who has hung out at certain downtown locales has experienced much smokier conditions than this… just pretend it’s cigarettes and read poetry out loud you’ll feel better
1994: mother looks into her child's eyes: "you're so special darling, you're going to make the most wonderful snarky journo for a dying publication that actively ruins everything meaningful about life & culture, sweetness. you will be a pathetic digital worm my love"
in 2022 i read 53225 books, hacked my biology, am now superman never sleep am jacked and have 3523523 substack paid subs, my life and i live in a large farmhouse in 1835
appreciate that people have been reaching about reading this, but a compact subscription is worth it--great rotation of pieces lately--of which i'm proud to have contributed this one:
Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about January 6.
Described as a quasi-sequel to ‘The Social Network’ that follows the rise of misinformation-for-profit online that may have led to January 6.
(Source:
@MattBelloni
)
LEONARD COHEN: "Bob Dylan is a figure that arises every three or four hundred years who represents & embodies all the finest aspirations of the human heart. He is unparalleled in the world of music & will remain a torch for all singers & all hearts for many generations to come."
I had the best time getting to know playwright Matthew Gasda (
@FOMO_sacer
) to discuss his career and plays that explore the generational differences exacerbated by the internet.
#WalkInsWelcome
We also talk about the current state of art, the challenges of surviving as an artist
my first month as president: banning smart phones in public; universal raw milk; maglev rail, nuclear power; classics in schools; shut down most of the federal departments; sin tax on instagram stories