Coucher de soleil, Île Bizard, été 1966 Philip Surrey 1966
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Excited about breakfast across all platforms
Begging my coworkers to stop referring to floating holidays as “floaters”
The way the cat doesn’t take all the space available to her but shoves herself against me until I move over further
The three completely stunning paintings by Carmen de Monteflores in the Whitney Biennial
“This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of a very British book seeking to make sense of what seemed at the time a very British problem. Half a century later, however, it turns out it was about Pete Hegseth all along.”
The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures
‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.
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Heard an hawking gold on a podcast by The Nation in a nice horseshoe moment
The best part of Federico Barocci's altarpieces are often the margins, which draw you in still lifes, animals, or other visual pleasures [Federico Barocci, The Visitation (detail), 1584-86, Cappella Pozzomiglio, Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome]
Takeshi Nishijima August, 1974 – Products of Summer: Vegetables and Dried Fish, 1973 Hand stencil-dyed print, ink and color on handmade kozo paper Worcester Art Museum
The new streaming website Moshpit features tens of thousands of performers, hundreds of thousands of tracks and more than 40,000 concerts, sessions, and interviews for free. www.pastemagazine.com/music/moshpi...
Moshpit opens the vault on seven decades of live music
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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“We aren’t inhabiting a moralistic detention centre so much as joining a hedonistic and chaotic focus group, in which we are prompted to throw off our inhibitions for the benefit of the observer on the other side of the mirror.”
William Davies · Let’s eat badly: Irrationality and its Other
Once democracy and public argument are premised on the logic of the platform, it simply doesn’t matter what anyone...
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Late Friday grid reveals that I didn’t listen to enough records to complete a 4 x 4 and all but one came out of Historic New Jersey Recordings
“One time when Orson was low on funds, I suggested he move in with me. For all the time we were together, I never quite got used to living in the same apartment as a legend. I’d get up in the morning and there’d be the director of Citizen Kane sitting in my kitchen.” (Peter Bogdanovich)
Don’t understand the Tate’s obsession with taking beautiful paintings and turning them into shirts that look like they should be on clearance in Debenhams
If you’d told me that a song with this title was an absolute banger I’d never have believed you and yet
Treehugger by Sam and Louise Sullivan on Apple Music
Song · 2026 · Duration 3:24
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The meadow is full of small jousting blue butterflies
"I don’t need to know this man to know he deserves to be at ease. Fewer and fewer of our elders are sitting on porches. Have you noticed? They’ve still got bills to pay." This is breathtakingly beautiful writing.
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”
“Blending 100 different sodas together is an insane act, but it’s also a hopeful one.”
All Soda Yearns to Be Red
A selective history of the “suicide”
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Deep in the yearly ritual of filling the kitchen and freezer with ingredients that my sister-in-law will not be able to resist using to cook when she visits
I do approve of recording a lot of music
Five people in a South Philly basement studio are making a whole lot of indie music
Star Moles, Sam and Louise Sullivan, and Rubber Band Gun all building a buzz for the Historic New Jersey record label. One of their albums is on all the cool kids' best-of 2026-so-far lists.
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Walking around the house saying “I fell asleep!” as if it was some extraordinary event and not just another Sunday afternoon
i am going to start a band called "i can't stop crying over my lemon loaf" and attract every barrel pants wearing 30 something in brooklyn
"The problem with contemporary culture isn’t that we’re too decadent. Surfaces of decadence – luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display – but pleasure is subordinated to programs of optimisation+ replaced at scale by algorithmic stimulation." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation
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