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Bill Tipper@tripleblip.bsky.social |
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Spreading the Good News about Lytton Strachey. 1/3 of the podcast An Embarrassment of Prog. Asst. to The Amazing Sargasso. Editing things @WSJBooks. Opinions my own.
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Bill Tipper
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When one encounters a public, heavily promoted argument for a paradoxical, up-is-down position on our moment in history, articulated in terms of a worldview wholly askew with lived reality & making its appeal via “I’m so smart that you probably can’t grasp my insights,” rest assured it’s: lies.
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Bill Tipper
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No job too small
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That is a devastating arc and did so much to show how much Moore still had the ability to cut right through to the heart of a pop cultural phenomenon.
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Bill Tipper
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A cultural history of the cultural history
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Honestly moving
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Somehow that it was posted by “Unofficial BBC News” gives the whole thing extra distortion. Queasy making!
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Bill Tipper
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The near-eyeroll from her is pretty great
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Bill Tipper
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Sarah you’re going to push me into a whole late-60s/70s rabbit hole digging up the faux-vaudeville-1920s music that was all over AM radio when I was growing up youtu.be/jKc1OCJ7iXk?...
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Bill Tipper
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Congratulations John!
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Bill Tipper
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Just saw a familiar type of complaint-comment relating to a book about a musician: because of the artist’s excellence, the existence of the book is redundant/unnecessary/ a foolish endeavor. “It’s all there in the music.” There is a kind of blithe idiocy to the position that I find sort of charming
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Sardonicus
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Before the Flatiron Building went up on the same lot, New York City
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Saeed Jones
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“For decades, the library has been an essential, free resource for all New Yorkers, especially in times of extreme weather,” said NYPL spokesperson Jennifer Fermino. “Unfortunately, budget cuts endanger our ability to stay open to the public.”
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Bill Tipper
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“Pete’s dead—I’m Panama now.”
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Everything is fine dot gif
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Bill Tipper
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Alternate take, based on seeing Jon Anderson recently: prog concerts are mostly older men and a few women who are so devoted to the music that they’ll put up with our company.
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Bill Tipper
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This is an extremely out-there call for SCOTUS to make.
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I went a couple of times in the late 1980s— it was like a 1950s time capsule. I hope they haven’t changed too much since.
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Bill Tipper
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A series of mysteries centered on oenophile country music singer & amateur sleuth Tuscan Red.
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The basement level of the Masonic monument to George Washington in Alexandria Va has (or had some time ago) an enormous diorama model of an idealized Shriner parade. Glorious stuff.
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Bill Tipper
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I know that the whole clowns-are-creepy thing is beyond dead but honestly when I saw this my eye read this guys eyebrows as eyes and the nose as a mouth and turned this into something close to Edvard Munch’s Scream-Os.
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Bill Tipper
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I would be more worried about the imposition of elements of Christian doctrine by the state onto schools and public institutions if there had been, say, centuries of murderous conflict over questions of how to translate & interpret its texts.
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Bill Tipper
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Sometimes a person has to do what’s right, even when they know it’s going to be unpopular.
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Tired: Selfies from your trip to Yellowstone Wired: Musical cues connecting photos of Old Faithful with the reference pic you took of your parking spot at the motel Inspired: Elk now have fingers
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Stop making me download a dozen different apps and have to remember which one I need to access tickets to a show. I should have to print them out from my friend's parents computer like god intended.
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Bill Tipper
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Serengeti offers a perspective on the question youtu.be/xF9pnVPJSew?...
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Bill Tipper
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Legitimately the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. The whisper network!
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Kashana
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Look, I was skeptical back when it just plagiarized words, sucked up water and energy and eliminated people’s jobs, but they really sold me on it by making it more expensive.
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Bill Tipper
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Star Wars would be interesting to me if there were many more sides to the force. Luke, come to the Damp Side.
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Bill Tipper
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Forgive the unsolicited recommendation— better than the Korda on similar territory “Soldiers Don’t Go Mad” by Charles Glass (you may have already read; but it’s worth mentioning for others on this thread. One of the richest books I’ve read on the subject of the war & trauma & poetry).
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Gwen C. Katz
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Another important interest behind the push for AI is data brokers. The entire modern internet is funded by scraping and selling your personal data, but as ad sales collapse, that data threatens to become worthless. They urgently need a buyer with a bottomless need for new data.
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Sam Sacks
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This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle is on Joseph O'Neill's 'Godwin', his best book imo (notwithstanding some of the odd reviews it's getting). Plus socialite satires by Clara Drummond and Bruce Wagner. Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Bill Tipper
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And…let’s get The Gut Buster for the table to start?
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Benjamin Dreyer
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Here's a little afternoon treat for you. Dinah is delightful; what Pearl gets done is amazing.
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That is pure bliss. Here’s where I fell in love with her youtu.be/tgDDAu1IbzA?...
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Bill Tipper
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Best crab and pastry shop in the tristate
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There is one in particular that is like brain sandpaper
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Bill Tipper
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This question points to exactly to what I love about the ouroboros quality of this poem. (I think it oscillates in my own head between both readings though I start with #2). Villanelles work via the magical qualities of repetition; Roethke mines it for disorientation. What falls away is always.
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Bill Tipper
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The Vergogna Decrypts
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Anyway I’m not going to tell you to prefer it to Gaudy Night or The Secret History but it’s pretty damn good!
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Bill Tipper
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Have I left out the savage portrait of a self-important scholar whose early canny self promotions have left him, in failing old age, with an unassailable self-regard that makes him an X factor that neither faction can securely enlist?
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Did I mention that the ties of friendship and personal loyalties cut directly across an emergent political divide that looks to be absolute and non negotiable, pointing toward an imminent crisis during which no neutral position will remain available?
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Bill Tipper
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When I tell you that you’re going to get very involved in the question of which faction of faculty at a Cambridge college in the 1930s gets their man in the soon-to-be-vacant mastership
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Bill Tipper
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I don’t know about best ( multiple heavyweights in this category) but I have to stand up for my boys
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Bill Tipper
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This is a strong reading
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Bill Tipper
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Incredible. Bon voyage!
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Marisa Kabas
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legalizing sports betting was such a profound societal failure.
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Bill Tipper
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
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Bill Tipper
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Finally got around to seeing “Klute” and 1000% this
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Bill Tipper
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The “symphony in mustard” wardrobe palette of that film remains unbeaten!
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James Kelleher
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In 1955, Ford asked the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Marianne Moore to come up with a name for their new car. Some of her suggestions: THE INTELLIGENT WHALE MONGOOSE CIVIQUE ANTICIPATOR AEROTERRE TURBOTORC THUNDER CRESTER MAGIGRAVURE PASTELOGRAM UTOPIAN TURTLETOP
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