tara

27 / New Yorker / writer / musician / road dog / blanket hog / luckless pedestrian / perpetual student / steward of the wreck room

[tara @taramaggswrites]

a gross & perverted misuse of terms that betrays a grave misunderstanding of them both. one cannot max one’s aura—one cultivates aura by maxxing other facets of one’s life, just as a fruit only produces ethylene gas via its own ripening. you tried too hard, generational aura loss

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

AURAMAXXING.

[tara @taramaggswrites]

What a privilege it is to watch a truly exceptional Jeopardy! contestant. Jamie Ding I would die for you

[tara @taramaggswrites]

“was i written by a man or a woman?” you were written by thomas Pynchon and he named you something insane like Mike fallopian

[Sophie Haigney @SophieHaigney]

Happy opening day, this is the best thing ever written about baseball and one of my favorite essays of all time
https://t.co/xv8GcfcepP

[tara @taramaggswrites]

the only book I’ve ever read is the book I’m reading right now

[tara @taramaggswrites]

the end of the affair by graham greene

[F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco]

David Foster Wallace:

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

uzbekistan banned valentine’s day for being a “foreign” holiday and makes everybody read the medieval poetry of babur instead (descendant of genghis khan who founded the mughal empire), born on february 14th. they host babur poetry festivals and readings

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Me reading Finnegans Wake:

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Did I understand a single word of it?
I did not.

Was it a vibe?
It was.

[sam buntz @SamBuntz]

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939):

[tara @taramaggswrites]

@Variety @NamesPynchon this little dude

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Didn’t do an end of year wrap up post because I’m moving in silence. Esoterica-maxxing in 2026

[charlie @chunkbardey]

sometimes i don’t feel like writing because everything is connected and i can’t get into all that right now

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Refusing to do a 2025 recap post and esoterica-maxxing

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Faustian bargains. Fourth wall breaks. A tortoise named Ichabod. A queenie talking Christmas tree. A seven minute long lawn mowing montage. Street riots. Wizard of Oz style color transitions. A nonexistent budget. Perfect movie.

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Now watching https://t.co/bUXAY1eTYP

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Now watching https://t.co/bUXAY1eTYP

[tara @taramaggswrites]

Merry Christmas🎄 please enjoy this year’s contribution to my series on Critical Grinch Theory https://t.co/oCnYhQg8CI

[chloe iris @chloeikennedy]

in the early 2000s camo print was strategically placed in the fashion zeitgeist as a means of aligning the western world with the war on terror. nowadays war machines can simply release merchandise, label it gorpcore, and the public will willingly fund their acts of terror. this is the consequence of decades of denying the politics of fashion. this is the consequence of years of dwindling media literacy. this is art that thinks you’re stupid.

[pxt @paulxt]

We’ve perhaps buried the lede: Dijon made Baby in a state of “psychosis-level” anxiety brought on by reading Gravity’s Rainbow

[tara @taramaggswrites]

the “young hoes cook everything on high” tweet has done more for home cooking than anything since Martha stewart