I love how my boys don’t have any hangups about stuff I would’ve turned my nose up at when I was their age — in the car today we played a little game of “tell me when you hear Michael McDonald” with “Ride Like The Wind” and “Peg” 😂
Austin Kleon
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I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
MASTER AND COMMANDER feels to me like many of my favorite experiences with art, where you begin with bewilderment — “WTF is this?” — and maybe even annoyance, but something keeps pulling you back so you just give yourself over to it, and eventually you lock in and you’re hooked
Austin Kleon@austinkleon.bsky.social · 3d agoMid-life bromance reading continues
Sorta knew about this but there was more or less (with exceptions) a two year gap in recorded music in the US from 1942-1944 due to a musicians union strike against the record companies over royalties. This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.
1942–1944 musicians' strike - Wikipedia
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I need to spend a lot of time at my desk for the next few weeks, so I have the second-screen portal open to my favourite virtual co-working companions, the salmon-fishing bears of Katmai National Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...
LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org
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I’ve seen COMMANDO a hundred times and never noticed this dude in the airport
I was delighted to see American Elf get mentioned in Don't Call it Art by @austinkleon.bsky.social Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka
I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%
ohhhhhh this is so completely my scene!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2w ago"In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their lives" ❤️ - "What's Inside the Moon," Signal Hill Issue 3
Happy 45th birthday to Love Action by the Human League, released as a single on this day in 1981
Ideally, you should read this article on an IMAX 70mm screen. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...
Words from the 'Odyssey'
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“Will every single item on this week’s list refer, somehow, to The Odyssey? Yes, my friends…” austinkleon.substack.com/p/choose-you...
Choose your own Odyssey
10 things worth sharing this week
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“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh.”
Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2w agoEvening viewing recommendation? Watch SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS in our Odysseys collection. This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen.
Meg, upon hearing this news: “Recession indicator!” 😂
Alissa Wilkinson@alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 3w agoJust discovered that FSG is (re)publishing How to Cook a Wolf in the fall (!!!)
Me after doing five minutes of yard work in New Orleans
James Brown Sweating During Live Performance
Alt: James Brown Sweating During Live Performance
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This is one of THE major issues that comes up when my wife edits stuff from academics who are trying to reach a general audience
Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 4w agoThe academic tic I've most had to scrub from my writing practice — at book length esp — is the impulse to always be arguing against somebody, to make an intervention by discrediting somebody else's intervention. I learned a lot of good habits in grad school; that's not one of them.
The best thing I’ve read this year is Willa Cather’s DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP The best thing I’ve read this year that mentions Willa Cather’s DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP is the latest @tricialockwood.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Diary: A Tradcath Wedding
Recently I had an opportunity to check in on the state of American Catholicism. The occasion was a tradcath wedding...
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probably once a week I think about this line from @tricialockwood.bsky.social's NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS: "You’ll be nostalgic for all this, too, if you make it."
They obviously don’t read the same astrology websites m’lady does 👀
NPR@npr.org · last mo.Dozens of technicians will fire off about 851,000 fireworks on July 4, aiming to break a world record in what organizers hope will be the "most memorable display this generation will have ever seen."
