Nicolas Leblanc
@ngrl.bsky.social
"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
Yes! And in SAME OLD SONG, where l'enfer c'est les autres.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Yes! And in SAME OLD SONG, where l'enfer c'est les autres.
I took my sweet time. Months. By the end the book is almost only stasis, too. But 100 years after publication it still has that weirdness around the eyes, in the stare, no-one has touched it. I admired it deeply, with a quite a few staggering epiphanies along the way.
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I took my sweet time. Months. By the end the book is almost only stasis, too. But 100 years after publication it still has that weirdness around the eyes, in the stare, no-one has touched it. I admired it deeply, with a quite a few staggering epiphanies along the way.
New acquisitions of December or, Do you know how hard it is to get French translations of Kant untouched by the two reactionary nincompoops who dumped La Pensée 68 on an unsuspecting public?
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New acquisitions of December or, Do you know how hard it is to get French translations of Kant untouched by the two reactionary nincompoops who dumped La Pensée 68 on an unsuspecting public?
What can you do against a guy who would fashion a sonnet from lines of Shakespeare's sonnets mostly (with one major tweak).
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What can you do against a guy who would fashion a sonnet from lines of Shakespeare's sonnets mostly (with one major tweak).
I am sure they waited for the people with the juiciest takes to be dead and buried, but truth will out...
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am sure they waited for the people with the juiciest takes to be dead and buried, but truth will out...
Book challenge: post a quote.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Book challenge: post a quote.
Stumbling on this as I am finishing The Making of Americans.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Stumbling on this as I am finishing The Making of Americans.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
If you see this, and you are French, you have no idea what a positive male role model would be, so you take your best stab at it.
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If you see this, and you are French, you have no idea what a positive male role model would be, so you take your best stab at it.
Anyone: Did you see the list from—
Me:
Me:
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Anyone: Did you see the list from—
Me:
Me:
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Hey there! People, I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Hey there! People, I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
New acquisitions of November, in three double bills.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New acquisitions of November, in three double bills.
There. It's like everything, with mixed feelings: it reminds me of the character from a novel who is a wedding photographer who had been a war photographer and couldn't help but casting a depressing pall on her subjects.
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
There. It's like everything, with mixed feelings: it reminds me of the character from a novel who is a wedding photographer who had been a war photographer and couldn't help but casting a depressing pall on her subjects.
Momgift 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold.
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Momgift 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold.
"Schumer's a great leader... for me to poop on!"
October 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Schumer's a great leader... for me to poop on!"
Aging, doom on the mind, full of aches and fears... it's a dolorous book, about end things, for the poet, her family, her world. Impactful, full of "ecstasies of exactness, in the retirement sense," but painfully lucid about how far that will carry one.
October 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Aging, doom on the mind, full of aches and fears... it's a dolorous book, about end things, for the poet, her family, her world. Impactful, full of "ecstasies of exactness, in the retirement sense," but painfully lucid about how far that will carry one.
Here is Hoagy Carmichael singing Happy Birthday to you.
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here is Hoagy Carmichael singing Happy Birthday to you.
Sistergift 2: Electric Boogaloo
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sistergift 2: Electric Boogaloo