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David Shapiro (1947–2024)
David Shapiro (1947–2024)
Quoth the raven: I am language. I am language, And nothing in language is strange, to me.
#poetry
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David Shapiro (1947–2024)
Another try at a Pinboard bookmarklet
Another try at a Pinboard bookmarklet
I asked ChatGPT to write a bookmarklet that would add a URL to Pinboard and paste in text copied from the clipboard as a description. And it works.
#Internet#AI
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Another try at a Pinboard bookmarklet
“Decline by 9”
“Decline by 9”
In “Not Lost in a Book” (Slate ), Dan Kois writes about a decline in children’s reading.
#books#reading
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“Decline by 9”
NYRB Nancy
NYRB Nancy
You know the end times are upon us when New York Review Books puts out a Nancy collection.
#comics#Nancy
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NYRB Nancy
First!
First!
In Cicadaville.
#life
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First!
Mystery actor
Mystery actor
That’s Johnny Roventini (“Call for Philip Morris”) in the background, above a display of upside-down Chesterfield packs. But who’s in the foreground?
#film#mysteryactor
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Mystery actor
A hidden figure?
A hidden figure?
From The Spiral Staircase (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946). I can’t decide if the vaguely human form at the center of the screen is meant to suggest a person, lurking, or not. All I know is that it scared the bejesus out of me.
#film
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A hidden figure?
“____ no!”
“____ no!”
“No” with an expletive attached should be the response of every American voter to Donald Trump in November.
#democracy#autocracy
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“____ no!”
John Mulaney, sardinista
John Mulaney, sardinista
John Mulaney travels with three cans of King Oscar sardines . Says Mulaney, “You don’t know what you’re gonna encounter out there.”
#sardines
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John Mulaney, sardinista
In Esperantoville
In Esperantoville
Conspiracy (dir. Lew Landers, 1939) is set in an unnamed European nation whose language is Esperanto.
#film#language
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In Esperantoville
Laptop speaking
Laptop speaking
I opened my laptop and a message in the center of the screen began reading itself aloud: “Hello, Michael. Mr. Eisenhower” — or was it Adenauer? — “has been waiting patiently for you. He is interested not in injecting the incredible but in removing it.”
#dreams
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Laptop speaking
A streaming “Adoration”
A streaming “Adoration”
Elaine Fine’s arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration,” streaming tonight from Juilliard.
#fambly#music
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A streaming “Adoration”
“Oh God! How beautiful!”
“Oh God! How beautiful!”
In the aftermath of my cataract surgery, my friend Stefan Hagemann pointed me to Annie Dillard’s essay “Seeing” (1974). In it Dillard recounts several case histories from Marius von Senden’s Space and Sight: The Perception of Space and Shape in the Congenitally Blind Before and After Operation (1960), a study of people who were able to see for the first time after the removal of congenital cataracts.
#life
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“Oh God! How beautiful!”
Third Birds
Third Birds
In The New Yorker, Nathan Heller writes about attention and the Order of the Third Bird.
#attention
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Third Birds