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https://matthewhunte.com (Dilettante-connoisseur, Luftmensch of the mind, Roamer among theories.)
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
PageSix Reports Polansky (guess Roman probably isn’t an option).
Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6d ago“Mother Monster A Mother Now” was right there.
Kushner was often asked to comment about how he could’ve seen all this coming and his response always makes me laugh which is that it was so fucking obvious *even a playwright* could see it. im just saying there’s a reason his friends say his drag name should be Eera Lee Prescient.
A vital part of the national conversation on the most important things then happening in the country. My guess is I will never see that happen again as long as I live, but I hope I’m wrong.
It might be the last major world event in which a national publication turned to a playwright and theater critic to make sense of it. And because Toby Kushner (the last playwright public intellectual in America maybe ever) happened to have a play in rehearsals about Afghanistan, theater remained…
The thing I remember every 9/11, besides the experience of being in Manhattan that day, is that that week Slate was running a daily correspondence between John Lahr (last of the theater critic public intellectuals) and August Wilson (the penultimate playwright public intellectual )
Holy smokes. Could be the best description I have ever heard: "She once, brilliantly, described novel-writing as 'trying very hard to remember something which has not yet taken place'." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due
This exhaustive biography of the Booker winner brings her properly out of the shadows for the first time
theguardian.com
RIP Peter Cullen. 🫡 Til all are one. youtu.be/8BA1d_1yZio?...
The death of Optimus Prime (The Movie)
YouTube video by 靈慕
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"Not all that is thought need be said, not all that is said need be written, not all that is written need be published, and not all that is published need be read." Menachem Mendl of Kotsk
Also - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.
One of the dinner options I'm considering tonight. Don't judge. Also, don't tell Buc-ee's.
Jeremiah should watch what he eats, man. Dude is having Biblical digestive problems. He ruined his tents!
I'm going to do a bunch of episodes with people connected to Hampshire in the coming months as the college winds down, covering all of its eras (I hope), and those will reside at chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-hamps...
The Hampshire Tapes
In spring of 2026, Hampshire College announced it would close down after the fall 2026 semester. I attended Hampshire from 1990 to 1993, and decided to conduct conversations with people connected t…
chimeraobscura.com
and if you're interested, there's a crowdfunding stab at acquiring Hampshire's campus and continuing its mission, called HAMPSHIRE NEXT: hampshirenext.org
Hampshire Next — Reimagining the Hampshire experiment
A community coalition is raising pledges to reimagine what Hampshire can be next — and to keep its campus and mission in the community's hands.
hampshirenext.org