Rimbaud First Blood: Part II

Say, do you have a ship and a dozen able men that maybe you could lend me?

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Anyone who went to a Palestinian solidarity rally on October 8, 2023 was morally correct to have done so. It was very obvious what was coming. But as history shows, you don't get rewarded for being on the right side of history; you get branded a "premature antifascist."

[largest rodent @capybaroness]

really funny that this is the only kind of writing AI can convincingly reproduce, because it's already laden with hallucination-esque nonsense imagery and disconnected phrasing

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

love schulman but this is inaccurate. the significant majority of MFA graduates never get published by big (or even small) presses and fully funded programs are one of the few places in the world of literature that don't function purely via sheer nepotism and/or vulgar classism

[Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu]

We don't know how good we have it, in historical terms. That means both that we're closer to a better country than we feel, and also that things could get worse than we appreciate.

[некосаттвачік @nekosattva_chan]

every new york culture rag is becoming something between buzzfeed and hipster runoff. my question is this: how many people do we need with careers parasitic off this stuff? "the internet" is not that interesting bro.

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

read a recently released novel that was largely quite good but suffered from a problem that i've encountered in 90% of contemporary fiction, which is that it was 320 pages and it should have been 250 at the most

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi @mqudsi]

Just launched GazaDirect dot com where Palestinian fundraisers from GoFundMe and Chuffed are indexed and tracked so donors and promoters can immediately see campaigns that have raised the least or gone a long time without donations.

Praying this helps – feedback welcome!

[lake micah @afrofatalism]

one question for our moment of great retreading of early-aughts ground is whether the “maximalist,” hysterical realist novel will return. or is american fiction stuck with the put-on schizophrenia of the gen z novel on one hand and sedate—even soporific—romans a clef on the other

[𝕯𝖆𝖜𝖘𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚🦇 @dawsferatu]

Everyone is so concerned why no one has written the “great internet novel” that we’ve forgotten to ask who the fuck would want to read that

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

Radical graffiti seen in Chicago

[R. Emmet Sweeney / robert-emmet.bsky.social @r_emmet]

Spent all week gathering remembrances of filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa from artists, teachers, programmers, and critics - it has helped me grieve, and I hope it gives you a glimmer of the man he was. Link in reply.

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

enough time has passed to diagnose maggie nelson's bluets as a source of abject corrosion in literature. a workaday book whose influence created a deluge of dreck from the memoirists and nonfiction writers of this world

[James @exhaustdata]

So sad that Phil deleted this, one of the best tweets of all time

[Michael Sophia @MichaelSopcg9z]

New York is capital of the planet. Chicago is the glittering & bustling heart of a continent, the New World. Los Angeles is a car-centric abomination of freeways and lawns, a cancerous outgrowth and upstart. aberrantly designed in contrast to the history of cities themselves.

[Big Nasty ☭ @keepaustinnasty]

Gramsci on “lesser evil” voting

[Justin🐀 @justbarke]

Cure (1997)

[Rimbaud First Blood: Part II @cosmicomicsans]

@lastyears_model The ultimate "dudes rock...but at what cost?" movie

[Rimbaud First Blood: Part II @cosmicomicsans]

Letterboxd top four film stills

[Josh Sawyer @jesawyer]

Film stills of my top four on letterboxd

[Rimbaud First Blood: Part II @cosmicomicsans]

@GabrielJBump Hey hey, congrats!

[Rimbaud First Blood: Part II @cosmicomicsans]

@ryanjeffreyshea Can only muster an "aw, shucks." Thanks, as ever!