Matt Keeley
@matt-keeley.bsky.social
Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
Wild that The Rivals of Amziah King is getting unanimously great reviews while the director's previous film, The Vast of Night, is entirely unable to view in States: Its Amazon Prime license lapsed and it never had a physical release. Movies aren't supposed to disappear like this.
pretty sure it's the time I stood on a street corner yelling "what if the mayor were hot?!?" at other upper west siders on a freezing cold early february morning to try to get their signatures to get a guy who was polling in the single digits onto the mayoral dem primary ballot
Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take
Don't start Woke 2 until you've played the Scholar of the First Microaggression DLC for Woke 1.
I was very sad to hear of the passing of Mary de Rachewiltz, poet and translator, daughter of Ezra Pound-- Robert and I visited her at her castle in the Tyrol, Schloss Brunnenburg, a long time ago, and she was incredibly kind. mailchi.mp/ndbooks/new-...
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
“Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers;” Rereading Brideshead in your 40s hits differently.
Man it sucks that an actor of Hoult’s considerable gifts would sign on to the anti-trans war chest generation machine. deadline.com/2026/08/nich...
Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
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My review of the late John Crowley's final novel, from 2022. Perhaps now he will receive the readers he always deserved. reactormag.com/book-review-...
The Chill of the Latter Days: John Crowley’s Flint and Mirror - Reactor
In John Crowley’s 1981 masterpiece Little, Big, young Auberon Drinkwater daydreams of writing about Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. His work would feature “Saracens and papal armies, Sicilian guerrillas...
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if you have not read Little, Big, get on it immediately.
Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c.@gavingrant.bsky.social · last wk.John Crowley was one of the best people I've ever known to spend time with. He knew — and put together — so many different things and was funny in so many different ways. He will be so missed by so many. (Me: writes so many 3 times in one post. John: writes 4 books and makes you wish there were more
RIP John Crowley. A real one, creative in strange and wonderful ways. In the handful of times we corresponded he was always really kind and engaging. Go read his unforgettable, sui generis Aegypt series, books that come to mind all the time.
Levi Stahl@levistahl.bsky.social · 2y agoIt was easier to admire the world in those days. —John Crowley, “Percy and Lulu Go to Vermont”
Dunno. I mean, I've told it to people, but I'm not sure I've told it in a public forum. It's a good one. Makes me cackle. I heard it from one of the people Lynch leaned on the hardest on that film, the guy who tracked down the warehouse space in Northridge that Lynch rented as a "soundstage." (1/10)
Jeremy Smith@mrbeaks.bsky.social · last wk.Hey @drewmcweeny.com, have you ever told the story about Lynch getting accused of shooting a porn flick during the production of INLAND EMPIRE?
John Crowley was one of my favorite writers. Little, Big; Engine Summer; the Aegypt books; the short stories; the lesser-known works like The Translator---all so worth reading. what a loss, what a sad day.
Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · last wk.Oh god, what absolutely wretched news. I had imagined another decade of Crowley. I’m so sorry, friends who knew him well.
Please, preserve our kitsch and inadvertently offensive Americana. A family business that stood up to the KKK and has employed some people for five decades straight?
AmyAlexCA@amyalexca.bsky.social · last wk.Fascinating news feature on a legendary roadside business, “South of the Border,” which encompasses the line of North and South Carolina. I saw it during a road trip years ago, but we opted to bypass due to schedule matters, not because we thought it was “tacky.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
If you wanna hear a real “…and they all clapped” story, @mayor.nyc.gov was at Balthazar last night with his family (yes, including Mira auntie) and, as they left, the restaurant literally burst into a round of applause. For the mayor of New York. A guy we historically greet with “fuck you”.
Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.
Oscar Hammerstein had a terrific 1943, with Oklahoma! opening in March and Carmen Jones opening in December. Finding himself the toast of Broadway again after a long string of failures, he took out a self-deprecating ad in the January 5, 1944 issue of Variety listing his flops. An absolute legend.
Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.
Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 2w ago"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
I was Dunnett-pilled standing in a long line for a GRRM signing back when A Dance with Dragons came out. Fell into conversation with guy in front of me; he raved about Lymond and how he was the only fictional hero he personally would follow into battle.
Andes Chucky@wendeego.bsky.social · 2w agoexamples of lymond dna: 1. the protagonist is described from the perspective of another character to disguise their plans and motivations 2. the reader knows more than the viewpoint character (or do they?!) 3. the author uses the word "blandly"
reading another book with lymond dna. but the author couldn't have possibly read lymond?! convergent evolution strikes again
Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha
Reminder: Bernie Moreno dismissed women as "single-issue voters" on abortion during his 2024 run and said it was "crazy" that women over 50 think about it at all. It's sweet that he has opportunistically discovered empathy for his daughter and granddaughter. He should ask them what gender they are.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 2w agoA better moment to say this would have been any time during the last two years of "pure hell."
"I want to see what the Ancient Greeks saw (but with constant footnotes because I know nothing and am too lazy to look anything up or even buy a book)." So what u want is a primer. But also so much need to go ham on this guy about orality, redactions, composite texts, editions, etc.
Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2w agolol
