A old, lonely deaf man created this. We are capable of great things still.
02.03.2026 18:01
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A old, lonely deaf man created this. We are capable of great things still.
In these sad days, I canβt get this adagio out of my mind. Iβve never heard it played better.
youtu.be/7jC4-JNMAC8?...
Da vero? Sto per guardarlo questa weekend!
Artwork by the brilliant Musho Rodney Alan Greenblat. Oh, and yeah, donβt buy stuff today.
Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
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Iβm George Takei and I approve of this message.
Go ahead.
Let the people see you for what you are.
Thatβs more like it.
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
Just heard #WiilArnet say the Whitnail And I is his favorite movie. Props, Will! Yup. Probably the best movie ever.
Congrats to my old pal #EdwardBerger for all the #BAFTA wins tonight!!! Go #Conclave! Just 2 weeks to the #Oscars π€π»
β¦where the book, like Cavalcantiβs house of death, lives briefly, like Arian heresy, solely in the readers mind & heart. @dreamscape-media.bsky.social 2/2
Words in #Ulysses are a super-position of potential meaning; each phrase laced with seemingly infinite potential. #JamesJoyce leaps modernism to contend with textualist arguments⦠1/2
oh wait, putting these together meansβ¦ hold on, there are 4 things being expressed with this one phraseβ¦ this is a reference toβ¦ that itself turns this other meaning to point towardβ¦ The audiobook narrator βran from them to the wood of madness, his mane foaming in the moon, his eyeballs stars.β
4 hours and just 2 pages of #Proteus. Studying #JamesJoyce must be as for a musician studying #Mozart. Ah yes, great melodic structure; fine embellishments. Letβs seeβ¦ that mirrorsβ¦
With 3 cats, my #Roomba is a perpetually bewildered robot.
Only YOU can prevent forest fires Seriously. We've been defunded. it's just you now.
Bove left the group alone to discuss how its members wished to proceed, saying he wanted an answer quicklyβ¦One attorney present told a colleague at Justice that the discussion was βgut-wrenchingβ and βnot anything any of us ever expected to see in America,β
The rule of law we take for granted was centuries in the making. But it can be destroyed in weeks.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!
With a hint of spring on the breeze, I find myself turning to old faves⦠@khruangbin.bsky.social
tidal.com/track/125059...
Woman with Umbrella at the Sea Shore, Watercolor, Henri Matisse, 1905
Episode 3, a.k.a. #Proteus, of #JamesJoyce βs #Ulyssesβ¦ pour moi, cela devient βlβheure fauve.β @dreamscape-media.bsky.social
35 years ago. Still startlingly original link.bytim.gr/mbv-oyf
β¦and I think, rather than put myself under pressure to produce anything more coherent, I'll use this format as just thatβa #brain-dump for now. @dreamscape-media.bsky.social 14/END
Anyhoo... I've got my work cut out for me. And I'm speaking here in very general terms. These #Ulysses posts are just brain-dumps that don't necessarily reflect any focused aspect of my prepping this project at the moment,β¦ 13/14
β¦leave aside the problem of βSirensβ here), and by what might be a stylistic delivery that is typically adopted for the text at hand in other genres of spoken word, such as theatre, radio, television, even YouTubers (yes, I'm talkin' to you, Simon Roper... link.bytim.gr/simonroper). 12/14
β¦to embrace the limitations of the audiobook and lean into the "meta" heuristic of the deliberate, fragmented, dissonance of styles, by adopting oneβs own deliberate and succinct distillation of delivery for each and every style that is wholly directed by both the cadence of the text (letβsβ¦ 11/14
