Jet lag is kicking my ass. Night all.
Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale)
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reads, walks & occasionally eats. Likes conversations. Posts pictures of her pets. Retailer. Mentor. Sometime MeFite. Perpetually restless. Living in the Hague. She/her. 🇳🇱/🇺🇸 Opinions are my own.
Finished The Bird With A Thousand Stories, by Kiyash Monsef. This was the sequel to Once There Was and I'm glad I read it. Any first book issues were smoothed out (nothing huge, some minor pacing issues). It read quickly and kept me reading. Will look forward to the third. #booksky 💙📚
Interview with Kiyash Monsef, acclaimed author of Bird of a Thousand Stories! - From The Mixed Up Files
Kiyash Monsef’s much-heralded debut, ONCE THERE WAS, introduced a fascinating concept: what if mythical beasts existed, and they needed veterinary care to survive? That book also introduced the vet-in...
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🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥 True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. -Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫). In 1950, almost bald of gold, and having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.
Gloria Swanson in Male and Female having been thrown to the lions. (without a stunt double!)
America the only country where people are so appalled when I tell them I don't drive that I pretend I don't know how to instead of the truth, which is I find it very boring and I'd rather just take the train/bus and chat with someone than spend that time getting mad at random strangers
Ikea Complexity Index: I wonder how many people know they've committed to a 10 hour build when buying a $700 kitchenette https://ikea.greg.technology/
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Painting by Gustav Klimt. ‘Tannenwald I’ Pine Forest I,1901. Oil on canvas. Size 90 x 90 cm.
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
I made the mistake yesterday of drinking a free energy drink handed out near Lollapalooza entrances and as a punishment sat awake all night. (PS did not attend concert, just in the same city)
#Ootd is this 1954-5 Norman Norell dinner dress in American Beauty rose silk faille. Faille is a fabric with flat ribs and in this case is made of silk. It has a firm, structured drape with a semi-glossy finish. It is often used for evening wear with dresses that require volume,
And this is true for all sides. If you're hoping a progressive or a moderate loses a general election because you don't want to validate that side of the coalition, you're not taking beating Republicans seriously enough. We just need to win as big a victory as possible.
I keep thinking about Mallory Geis. She had so little climbing experience, and then to go straight for Broad Peak like that… No level of skills would have saved her. But I don’t think she understood the level of risk she was running. There are so many beautiful mountains which aren’t killers.
Went to the de Kooning exhibit yesterday at the Chicago Art Institute. I’ve always really enjoyed his early work very much. I get all the discourse around his women but I’ve always found them joyful and funny, not mean. This was a big enough retrospective tho…. 🧵
Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."
Highly recommend Poets in Their Youth, the memoir of Eileen Simpson. Berryman's poetry (particularly the dream songs) has meant so much to be for such a long time and it was illuminating to read so much about his early life. Well written and it feels fair. #booksky 💙📚
"Many—I, too, at moments—blamed the suicide on John’s having been a poet. The litany of suicides among poets is long. After a while I began to feel that I’d missed the obvious. It was the poetry that had kept him alive." -- Poets in Their Youth, Eileen Simpson #booksky 💙📚
I can’t stop refreshing the news from Broad Peak. I have such vivid memories of sitting there on Concordia and looking at Broad Peak in the clear sun. (I was sick as a dog— Giardia) There is nothing human in that landscape except the people crawling on the surface of those glaciers and mountains.
I can’t find this story yet in English, but just awful. One of her spotters admitted to deliberately sabotaging her lifting because ‘I’m a racist’.
"Je suis raciste et je l’ai fait exprès": incroyable histoire de sabotage au championnats du monde de powerlifting
Promise au titre dans la catégorie féminine des super-lourds (+84 kg) des Championnats du monde de powerlifting, en juin dernier, Sonita Muluh a été victime d'un sabotage de la part d'un de ses propre...
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My three year old godson has spent the last hour secretly hand feeding me the green beans he doesn’t want to eat and I would really appreciate it if you would all agree to fix the world for him
A massive avalanche on the 26,400-foot-tall Broad Peak has left ten climbers missing, including Nirmal “Nims” Purja.
World-Famous Climber Nims Purja Is Among 10 Missing Following an Avalanche
A massive avalanche on the 26,400-foot-tall Broad Peak has left ten climbers missing, including Nirmal “Nims” Purja.
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