Ian Curtin
@iancurtin.bsky.social
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Album cover... vehicle... do it
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Album cover... vehicle... do it
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An outstanding portrait:
Alain Delon by Jean-Marie Périer, 1960s
Alain Delon by Jean-Marie Périer, 1960s
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An outstanding portrait:
Alain Delon by Jean-Marie Périer, 1960s
Alain Delon by Jean-Marie Périer, 1960s
"[A]t this stage in his career Thomas Pynchon’s reputation largely immunises him against critical assault. His greatness is taken universally, and monotonously, for granted."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Shadow Ticket: Maybe Thomas Pynchon isn’t actually all that great
Pynchon has a remarkable grasp of the American vernacular and no ear for prose rhythm whatsoever
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"[A]t this stage in his career Thomas Pynchon’s reputation largely immunises him against critical assault. His greatness is taken universally, and monotonously, for granted."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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1994 listen party in full effect
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
1994 listen party in full effect
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Listening to a history audio book in which the narrator refers to “the beer hall pooch”
September 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Listening to a history audio book in which the narrator refers to “the beer hall pooch”
"You gonna bark all day, little doggy? Or are you gonna bite?"
Come cambiano in fretta situazioni e atteggiamenti eh? Buongiorno
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"You gonna bark all day, little doggy? Or are you gonna bite?"
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"Dictatorships encourage cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they encourage idiocy . . . To fight against these sad monoties is one of the writer's many duties."
Jorge Luis Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges.
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Dictatorships encourage cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they encourage idiocy . . . To fight against these sad monoties is one of the writer's many duties."
Jorge Luis Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges.
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Remembering Bob Hoskins on his birthday 🎂
📷 Terry O'Neill, 1991
"In good films or bad, Hoskins was impossible to ignore; a foursquare dynamo who always made his presence felt."
- Xan Brooks
@xanbrooks.bsky.social
📷 Terry O'Neill, 1991
"In good films or bad, Hoskins was impossible to ignore; a foursquare dynamo who always made his presence felt."
- Xan Brooks
@xanbrooks.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Remembering Bob Hoskins on his birthday 🎂
📷 Terry O'Neill, 1991
"In good films or bad, Hoskins was impossible to ignore; a foursquare dynamo who always made his presence felt."
- Xan Brooks
@xanbrooks.bsky.social
📷 Terry O'Neill, 1991
"In good films or bad, Hoskins was impossible to ignore; a foursquare dynamo who always made his presence felt."
- Xan Brooks
@xanbrooks.bsky.social
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the deal i struck with burger king
May 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
the deal i struck with burger king
Wheat intolerance
October 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Wheat intolerance
Walker: How bad does he want you, Chris?
Chris: Oh, I don't know. Who knows?
Walker: Yeah, you know. How bad?
Chris: Pretty bad, I guess.
Chris: Oh, I don't know. Who knows?
Walker: Yeah, you know. How bad?
Chris: Pretty bad, I guess.
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Walker: How bad does he want you, Chris?
Chris: Oh, I don't know. Who knows?
Walker: Yeah, you know. How bad?
Chris: Pretty bad, I guess.
Chris: Oh, I don't know. Who knows?
Walker: Yeah, you know. How bad?
Chris: Pretty bad, I guess.
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
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"I hear they got a Nobel prize for that stuff as well."
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"I hear they got a Nobel prize for that stuff as well."
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First watch (in two sittings!): The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet, 2024). Adrien Brody stars as Hugarian-Jewish architect László Tóth, trying to rebuild his life in America after the concentration camps. Although it borrows from the biopic mode, it is entirely fictional. 1/4
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
First watch (in two sittings!): The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet, 2024). Adrien Brody stars as Hugarian-Jewish architect László Tóth, trying to rebuild his life in America after the concentration camps. Although it borrows from the biopic mode, it is entirely fictional. 1/4
'Grofield put a nickel in the slot machine, pulled the lever, and watched a lemon, a lemon, and a lemon come up. The machine coughed fourteen nickels into the chrome tray.'
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'Grofield put a nickel in the slot machine, pulled the lever, and watched a lemon, a lemon, and a lemon come up. The machine coughed fourteen nickels into the chrome tray.'
YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS
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Wait till my best friend, a traveller from an antique land, hears about this!
Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Wait till my best friend, a traveller from an antique land, hears about this!
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not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body