Scott Taylor
@scott-bluerobot.bsky.social
editor • designer • poet • smartass
more at scottbluerobot.substack.com/
and emergencyhorsemagazine.substack.com
more at scottbluerobot.substack.com/
and emergencyhorsemagazine.substack.com
New on my Substack:
the Art & Travel Deck, pt 1
scottbluerobot.substack.com
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. —Susan Sontag
the Art & Travel Deck, pt 1
scottbluerobot.substack.com
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. —Susan Sontag
January 20, 2026 at 12:10 AM
New on my Substack:
the Art & Travel Deck, pt 1
scottbluerobot.substack.com
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. —Susan Sontag
the Art & Travel Deck, pt 1
scottbluerobot.substack.com
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. —Susan Sontag
Emergency Horse Magazine is back with 2 tabloid issues per year and a continual Substack presence. New and Classic stories, and access to the PDFs of the original magazines. emergencyhorsemagazine.substack.com
Check it out.
Check it out.
July 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Emergency Horse Magazine is back with 2 tabloid issues per year and a continual Substack presence. New and Classic stories, and access to the PDFs of the original magazines. emergencyhorsemagazine.substack.com
Check it out.
Check it out.
I wouldn’t have thought there was a huge call for this, although Borges is a better candidate than most. Still, if I was to translate Borges into Middle English, Labyrinths or Ficciones would perhaps be more interesting choices.
July 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I wouldn’t have thought there was a huge call for this, although Borges is a better candidate than most. Still, if I was to translate Borges into Middle English, Labyrinths or Ficciones would perhaps be more interesting choices.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
—Nikos Kazantzakis
—Nikos Kazantzakis
July 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
—Nikos Kazantzakis
—Nikos Kazantzakis
We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. . . . Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties.
—Anatole Broyard
—Anatole Broyard
July 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. . . . Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties.
—Anatole Broyard
—Anatole Broyard
Byung-Chul Han, from Saving Beauty:
July 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Byung-Chul Han, from Saving Beauty:
If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.
—Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
—Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
June 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.
—Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
—Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
From Psycho-politics by Byung Chul Han, written in 2017. Acxiom is now known as LiveRamp.
June 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
From Psycho-politics by Byung Chul Han, written in 2017. Acxiom is now known as LiveRamp.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
— Ambrose Bierce
— Ambrose Bierce
June 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
— Ambrose Bierce
— Ambrose Bierce
Alchemy
acrylic on birch
acrylic on birch
May 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Alchemy
acrylic on birch
acrylic on birch
from war and peace in the global village by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
May 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
from war and peace in the global village by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
I am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlighetti
By Lawrence Ferlighetti
I am Waiting
A performance of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's great poem I am Waiting—excerpted from Show 4: Separation Energy. on.soundcloud.com/RvM7s
Music and performance by Scott Taylor ©2020.
Transcripts can be
on.soundcloud.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlighetti
By Lawrence Ferlighetti
Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists.
—Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
—Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
February 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists.
—Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
—Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
—Orson Welles
—Orson Welles
February 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
—Orson Welles
—Orson Welles
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
—Mark Fisher
—Mark Fisher
January 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
—Mark Fisher
—Mark Fisher
from my book October
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
from my book October