John Rambow

The sound of the drum is calling
The sound of the drum has called

[Nicole @nicolegelinas]

This isn't illegal, but it's an example of the soft corruption that has long persisted in NYC. You want to know why we can never move MSG for a real Penn Station, why MSG persists with its tax break even though New York State and City are now controlled by socialists, why it gets away with its bullying facial-recognition nonsense despite all the pols wailing and gnashing about it, this is why. That's fine, but don't pretend it's not what it's not.
https://t.co/bahxXFSZ5K

[Moon Dude @YourMoonDude]

The only REAL New Yorkers are midwestern transplants

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

I suppose now is as good a time as ever to announce: An upcoming photo exposition by Martha Cooper and Peter Moskos!
"WTF?" you say. "Martha Cooper and Peter WHO?"
Yes, it is quite the honor to partner with her. She's the best.
Underground location TBA. NYC. September.

[Arthur Vandelay @GuyIncognito456]

@delillostan Gertrude Stein put this well

[Reza Chowdhury @RezaC1]

It's a good time to remember that New York leads the nation in state and local debt per capita.

[Parsifal Books @ParsifalBooks]

William Faulkner on The Old Man and The Sea:

“His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece by any of us. I mean his and my contemporaries. This time, he discovered God, a Creator. Until now, his men and women had made themselves, shaped themselves out of their own clay; their victories and defeats were at the hands of each other, just to prove to themselves or one another how tough they could be. But this time, he wrote about pity: about something somewhere that made them all: the old man who had to catch the fish and then lose it, the fish that had to be caught and then lost, the sharks which had to rob the old man of his fish; made them all and loved them all and pitied them all. It's all right. Praise God that whatever made and loves and pities Hemingway and me kept him from touching it any further.”

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

In Boston area this type of corner convenience store with sandwiches drip coffee etc is called a “spa.” No idea why.

[Larry Fitzmaurice @lfitzmaurice]

Worst job interview I ever had: Managing Editor at the Daily Beast in 2017. John Avlon asked me if I watched Game of Thrones, I said "No but I'm watching Twin Peaks." He made a disgusted look and checked emails in silence for five minutes before his assistant asked me to leave

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

"Scandinavian Pizza." In addition to the whole fish, those are full slices of onions topped with minced hard-boiled egg. The ad also recommends "Polish Pizza," which tops a pie with kielbasa and sauteed cabbage.

[John Rambow @johnrambow]

If only

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Reading a book whose author, I am pretty sure, thinks Henry James and M.R. James are the same person 🤦‍♂️

[John Rambow @johnrambow]

@alixemur @JoyceCarolOates And, perhaps, other dairy states. https://t.co/jmwOjC9EdD

[Hans @HansStaab]

PSA

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Stasi agent modeling his disguise as a Western tourist, 1985.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I thought the whole idea was that he was supposed to transcend the banality of politics as an outsider and instead he's making moves so cynical it would make Jill Biden embarrassed.

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

There are many, many stories like this from 2014-2024. @katrosenfield's is just especially well-written. https://t.co/wj3mTn5lkM

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

In 1960, Norman Mailer stabbed his second wife Adele, after a party at which he announced his run for mayor of NYC (!); figures such as James Baldwin & Lionel and Diana Trilling made excuses for him. On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot and almost killed Andy Warhol, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial for murder, and was treated as a serious political thinker by Ti-Grace Atkinson.
Political violence in NYC in the '60s.
HT @DarrellEpp, whose account shows the NY Post's coverage of Warhol shooting.

[Hello, This is Ivan @hellothisisivan]

“Best killing of an alpaca I’ve ever seen, 5 stars”

[cashewrising @cashewrising]

they’re offering $275 6-week courses on raves in bushwick now

[#Dykes4Dari 💖 @harshwoke]

happy pride to queers in the arts and @claireforny