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Pop-Up Pizza and A Few Other Connections

August 31, 2023

My downstairs neighbors recently created a pop-up kitchen. They sold pizza out their own kitchen window — had hand-drawn menus, a healthy heaping of typical...

Infinite Taverns (A Note on Craft)

August 10, 2023

On June 22nd, 1835, Nathaniel Hawthorne — future author of The Scarlet Letter — wrote the following in his American Notebooks: Crossing the ferry into...

Links Elsewhere:

“Annie Ernaux Has Broken Every Taboo of What Women Are Allowed to Write.”Keith Jarrett & Chick Corea Play Mozart with The New Japan Philharmonic. Movie...

The State of the Evans

The following is an edited transcript of a conversation between two people named Evan and one person who was granted the honorific for practical purposes....

A Chat with Chloe Alberta.

Chloe Alberta is good at this. In fact, wait, no, let me put it another way: she’s very good at this. Over the past few months, she’s had work published in...

10 Links Elsewhere:

“Searching for Lost Time in the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar.”“The Internet Court of Lies.”“The Herbie Hancock Group on Danish TV, 1976.”Birdcast.The...

Notes Towards A Future Detective Story Without The Police

We are in a room with a giant, hanging chandelier flower of glass looking — in person — like it could well kiss the top of the table. It is April. Spring has...

A Few Thoughts on Time From Which Not Enough Has Been Removed

Screaming Females has been doing this for nearly twenty years. You don’t need me to tell you about Screaming Females, not only because you might already...

20 Links Elsewhere:

This is a wonderful conversation between Marc Maron and Laurie Anderson.“Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals.” (Related?)“While flipping through...

THE RIB AND THE CLAY:

The Forgotten, Visionary Work of “Mad” Martwy PrzyszłyA Retrospective on the Underappreciated Painter Whose Singular Haunting Vision Is Comparable in Scope...

The Moth and the Way it Ends

by Corey Farrenkopf and Gabrielle Griffis

With Sarah Huckabee Sanders signing a law to roll back child labor protections in the state of Arkansas, please consider watching a short video from Vox that...

On Kehinde Wiley & Bob Dylan.

It’s deceptively easy to slide into a certain rhetorical register of nonsense when it comes to describing your own country. Lord knows that I’ve been guilty...

Rick Beato Interviews Keith Jarrett

February 27, 2023

Self-Portrait (#1-7)

February 25, 2023

#1 A Willie Nelson song and a car slipping into the approaching dusk like someone straightening their tie. Half-jokingly describing the surrounding mountains...

People, Not Ideas

February 19, 2023

A scrapbook of thoughts.

Liner Notes: In Spite Of Ourselves

December 20, 2022

Lyrics and music as clean as cleanly cut woodwork, but — in spite of that — we still find ourselves writing short little bursts of deliberately circuitous...

Fast Times At The Rashomon Effect Theme Park

December 2, 2022

I recently spoke with Paul Harding about his forthcoming novel for Publishers Weekly. You should be able to read the profile of Harding on Monday, though, be...

November 27, 2022

It’s interesting (quietly striking?) to pair these two stories together and realize that one of the thru-lines for both is simply … real life.

Dehumanizing at 100mph

November 21, 2022

At first it’s one thing. Then it’s the other thing. Then it’s the other other thing, but not the first, which isn’t to say that it can’t be this third thing....

Dangerous Poetry

November 12, 2022

Chocolate Cake City performs its 20th anniversary show at Dynasty Typewriter at 10PM PST tonight.

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo is now The New Thing

November 12, 2022

A small editorial note before the waves of internet narrative wash over us again: I’ve decided to change the name of Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo to The New...

Seven Invasions

October 6, 2022

by Evan Williams and Ruby Rorty

Internet Time Capsule #42: You Wouldn't Let It Lie

September 18, 2022

“In due time, the meerkats accept me. I flick my ears back and forth to say thank you.” — Evan Williams and Ruby Rorty, ‘Feeling Small,’ HAD. I hope the...

Internet Time Capsule #41: A Soundsuit Goes To The Supermarket

August 18, 2022

Salman Rushdie had the right to write The Satanic Verses. The next Salman Rushdie will have the right to write the next Satanic Verses. The Salman Rushdie...

#40: The Third Lion at the New York Public Library

"I just want to point out that you talk about news and letters and then hard cut to something that is neither."

#39: Okay, Let's Try This.

FEATURED: a poetic ramble about summer, spirits, and early impressions of the Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz. A question about citizenship and gun violence....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC- Restrain judicial review - Expand the court - Clinics on federal lands - Expand education and access to Plan C - Repeal Hyde -...

#38: Art Thieves and Silent Podcasts

Time out of mind. Time out of joint. A stitch in time saves time. An abstract machine that only makes things clear. A sentient chalkboard that looks at the...

A Thread of A.I.-Generated Art

EnzymeZoo @EnzymeZooHad to zoom out of some of those Daft Punk ukiyo-e woodblock prints (1) #dalle #dalle2 #daftpunk 2:49 PM ∙ May 30, 202224Likes5Retweets...

A Quick Word About A Professional Troll

It is weirdly offensive that a professional troll like [NAME REDACTED] operates under the veneer of pretending to know things when the entirety of his shtick...

I don’t want to play Amateur Adam Curtis, but I want to flag this comment from The New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Anton Troianovski made in The New York...

#37: Just Photographs

#36: What is This, A Newsletter for Ants?

AS RECENTLY SEEN IN THE HOBART CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: “The first time I visit a therapist’s office, she gestures to the beige couch opposite her armchair.” / “I...

#35: You Can Worldbuild Better Than Doctor Strange

“Rome was good. Sat ninety in the summers. Leaned on his off speed when the weather got cold. Postseason, most of the district had seen him by then, we took...

#34: Notes On A Scene

I’ve said it before: dog bless anyone doing anything creative anywhere … but — I’ve found myself watching clips from the second season of Star Trek’s Picard,...

Ask for Jane: Meet the Underground Feminist Group That Provided Abortions Before Roe v. Wade (Democracy Now, 2019)

Funds That Support Abortion Seekers in States Where Abortion Would Be Banned if Roe is Overturned:

Arkansas Abortion Support Network.ARC Southeast.New Orleans Abortion Fund.Missouri Abortion Fund.Kentucky Health Justice Network.Northwest Abortion Access...

Liner Notes for Taylor Swift's "1989"

$ · April 28, 2022

by Leigh Chadwick

#33: Trust Fall

“Some people have a strong internal moral code. / Some people adhere to a collective one.” — “Good For Them” by Alisha Wexler, HAD. I was listening to the...

#32: Like A Sales Force Into The Night

“I was cruising through the lineup, 6-0, decimating my neighbors in our annual July Fourth softball tournament when a pinch hitter came to the plate. It took...

#31: I Just Had To Get To Your Apartment

“Actually, she loved the bat. All that stuff about not loving the bat was a lie. Sometimes she really did pick it up and rock it in her arms like a baby.” —...

#30: I'm Sensing A Theme

“You're not sure if it's because you've been kissing for so long that you are starting to worry that your tongue might fall off or because the last time you...

As part of Buffalox3's continuing mission to be A Nice Place On The Internet,

If you're making your brackets for March Madness ...

You should maybe take a look at this chart, and at — Ken Pom.

On The First Two Episodes Of Winning Time.

My eyebrows were raised at the visual vocabulary Adam McKay decided to go with in Winning Time. And — mind you — I’m typing this note one minute and...

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#29: Where You At?

“The stream of crimson brake-lights that floated like an illuminated trail of blood from Boston inches north. Cool air from the vent paws my face. I rotate...

Liner Notes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

$ · March 7, 2022

by Leigh Chadwick