Today I am apparently putting-down-your-glasses-and-several-minutes-later-realizing-you-never-picked-them-up-again-even-though-you-are-essentialy-blind-and-definitely-can't-see-well-enough-to-find-them-again-without-help-years-old.

TIL a friend of mine I've known for over 25 years named Lilith Fair

What's the current state of print-in-demand? My first two books sold out and then the publisher went under, and I've reclaimed the rights of my most recent and maybe should get the other, and then people ask for them and I'm not sure what to do.

Really excited to speak with a brilliant music critic yesterday about liner notes for a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of Are We Not Horses. Coming soon.

Flowers on a grave can't nourish the hands that made the work. Praise artists while they're still creating. Read them. Support them. Tell them what their work has given you. The finest tribute is not a eulogy; it's helping artists to keep making art.

INtention is the act of paying ATTention.

There are two kinds of “writer,” the one who says “I always wanted to try writing a book” and the one who says “what’s wrong with me”

Why are all the books for adults with ADHD purposefully laid out so they're impossible to read?

Such a great cover. So much of it is identical to the original, but then in the builds they break it so beautifully. open.spotify.com/track/67O7yT...

Something's on Your Mind - Live

The Staves · Pine Hollow (Live) · Song · 2018

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Sometimes you have to realize that, in trying not to take others down with you, you are taking others down with you.

If the academic study of english literature has become (or always was?) the study of history, or culture, through written texts, then why don't we similarly have a BA in pottery sherds?

So in love with this snarky first line of Arthur Waley's Secret History of the Mongols (1963): "When it had barely run half its course the eighteenth century grew tired of itself. "

My baby turned 6!

Greatest rhyme of all time, in songs or poetry, is smidge and orphanage.

"Scale is not about relative size. Scale is about what relationships matter within a particular context." - Max Liboiron

"They did not want a philosophy that should be a scientific toy guaranteed to amuse professional thinking safe behind their college gates. They wanted a philosophy that should be a weapon." Collingwood's Autobiography

Any of y'all know anything about tai chi and can answer a question for me for a story? Thanks.

Unfamiliar as I am with Chinese and pinyin/various other spellings, can someone help me with a potential connection between terms that might not actually be a connection between terms? Knowledge of tai chi would be a bonus.

If there is no mind, only the reactive concretions, then what is the force that makes me question the truth of this statement.

It's fun to read history about several thousand years ago that contains a serious mention of the great wizard disaster.

A sentence is a building, with an entry or not, access to the garden or not, welcoming to live in or not.

We don't need to also apply austerity to language; sentence can use *all* the words.

Information is a position while knowledge is its velocity.

I keep coming back to this paragraph from my enormous manuscript. To remind myself.

I'm not sure what else has brought me such sheer joy lately: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j33f...

むかしストリート -桃男-｜Once Upon A Dance Time -Peach Boy-

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How do I always sit down to clean up a few pages of what I think is a finished section on the Dieulafoy exhibit at the Louvre and end up writing five pages on the contrasting opinion on the European nightjar by rival parson-naturalists in the late 1700s?

OMG! It took nearly a year for her to trust me at all and today, after nearly four years, she's decided to hang out with me on my office chair!

Years ago, when we lived in Toronto, I walked my children to daycare every morning and would pass by Marshall McLuhan's house at exactly the halfway point. I knew it was his house solely because of a plaque out front. In fact, one might have said: At the median is the message.

I am remarkably good at finding new obsessions that are equally unlikely to heal any financial precarity.

Maybe Sisyphus had a grant? To be able to push that rock up every day? Like, it couldn't have paid much per hour.