( via / me )

The New American Gothic.

" 'In that strange yesterday from which I have come,' I replied, 'here prevailed the superstition that between one evening and the next morning, events occur that it would be shameful to have no knowledge of. The planet was peopled by spectral collectives — Canada, Brazil, the Swiss Congo, the Common Market. Almost no one knew the prior history of those Platonic entities, yet everyone was informed of the most trivial details of the latest conference of pedagogues or the imminent breaking off of relations between one of these entities and another and the messages that their presidents sent back and forth — composed by a secretary to the secretary, and in the prudent vagueness that the form requires. All this was no sooner read than forgotten, for within a few hours it would be blotted out by new trivialities.' " —Borges via @merothwell

Ronda de Sanabria.

"moth wrangler"

duck lisp · rodeo book
nebbish tome · rife cark
cis gaze · dispel hsigo
yak ska · yogi shlep
side zag · sick race
fire moth · sib enko
oboe dorp · silk cud

"His widow, Lady Isabel, described him as 'half Sufi, half Catholic' – or, more truthfully, she said, 'alternately Sufi and Catholic”'."

( via / via )

What string quartet cycles from after 1940 should I listen to?

"The longing imps grasp tomes of old
And rant therefrom each damned one's name."

--Betelguese: A Trip Through Hell

Pizzabear.

tarn alunissage
Vegas sin
ulan rat

Elegie.

( via / me )

Haiku.

"lyon off season
frozen bridge over the rhone
silent thoroughfare
in summer it will be swarmed
tonight it is ours alone"

--@dylankussman.bsky.social

Accursed clown in the clown factory, detailed oil painting, remedios varo, james ensor.

dire · garret
tupilaq · a lip
utter rage · rid

"I keep wondering which will kill us first: global warming, or the rampant ego of this terrifying moloch."

( via via @mcmansionhell / me )

Elastic is interested in work that locates the sublime in the ordinary, that interrogates power by breaking form, and that extends the boundaries of the usual creative containers. (via @rosebudbenoni)

"Entertained by the small things. Such as Walter Biemel starting his book on phenomenology and Heidegger with a Madame Bovary quote: 'Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.' " --@dreramsofbeing_

The only democracy.

trace rim · sip
room elope · run
i start race · mime cart
rats inure · pole moor
pismire cart

"Imagine making Ghalib fascist!"