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The 2026 Barkley Marathons began with one of the strongest fields ever. The starting field came from 15 Counties as well as 15 States, and included ten women. The course seemed not to care. Over 70% of the field is done. #BM100
February 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
The 2026 Barkley Marathons began with one of the strongest fields ever. The starting field came from 15 Counties as well as 15 States, and included ten women. The course seemed not to care. Over 70% of the field is done. #BM100
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1973 on the Chuo Line. A group of mothers protesting railway company rules requiring passengers to fold pushchairs, and carry children inside the carriage. The rules weren't relaxed until 1998-9. www.asahi.com/and/m/articl...
February 15, 2026 at 3:43 AM
1973 on the Chuo Line. A group of mothers protesting railway company rules requiring passengers to fold pushchairs, and carry children inside the carriage. The rules weren't relaxed until 1998-9. www.asahi.com/and/m/articl...
My review of Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm
Marc Behm wrote the screenplay for Help! . His novel, The Eye of the Beholder , has the same manic energy as that classic piece of madcapp...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:09 AM
My review of Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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My review of Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 by Robert Kelly
Nobody could ever like or dislike the poetry of Robert Kelly because it is this or that kind of poetry. His poetry is simply too various to...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:12 AM
My review of Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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My review of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Mary A, Ward , who wrote under her married name, Mrs. Humphry Ward and founded the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, takes great pai...
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February 7, 2026 at 7:41 AM
My review of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Has anyone looked into the high rates of memory loss among those who knew Jeffrey Epstein or perhaps visited his island? There appears to be a significant correlation between association with Epstein and otherwise unexplained gaps in those people’s memories.
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Has anyone looked into the high rates of memory loss among those who knew Jeffrey Epstein or perhaps visited his island? There appears to be a significant correlation between association with Epstein and otherwise unexplained gaps in those people’s memories.
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For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows that benefits for depression may be attributable to a placebo effect. www.wired.com/story/microd...
Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee
For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows that benefits for depression may be attributable to a placebo effect.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:02 AM
For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows that benefits for depression may be attributable to a placebo effect. www.wired.com/story/microd...
I hope to read or reread all her novels this year.
It’s Virginia’s birthday tomorrow.
📸 Lady Ottoline Morrell (June, 1924)
📸 Lady Ottoline Morrell (June, 1924)
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM
I hope to read or reread all her novels this year.
My review of Shroud of Darkness by E.C.R. Lorac is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Shroud of Darkness by E.C.R. Lorac
E.C.R. Lorac is the only British "queen of crime" from the golden age of the English crime novel—think: Christie, Sayers, Marsh, and Alli...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:54 AM
My review of Shroud of Darkness by E.C.R. Lorac is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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1777: Frost, sun, grey & harsh.
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 AM
1777: Frost, sun, grey & harsh.
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the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
My review of Velvet was the Night by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Velvet was the Night by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
When I first heard about Mexican Gothic and Velvet was the Night by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia I hurried out to buy both. The novels were set in...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:43 AM
My review of Velvet was the Night by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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A post on Mastodon.
Grutjes
@[email protected]
Wow. Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE.
For anyone still thinking Bsky is a real alternative to Twitter: No, it's not.
Mastodon is. Bsky is just X at its infancy.
What do you think?
Grutjes
@[email protected]
Wow. Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE.
For anyone still thinking Bsky is a real alternative to Twitter: No, it's not.
Mastodon is. Bsky is just X at its infancy.
What do you think?
January 17, 2026 at 7:23 AM
A post on Mastodon.
Grutjes
@[email protected]
Wow. Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE.
For anyone still thinking Bsky is a real alternative to Twitter: No, it's not.
Mastodon is. Bsky is just X at its infancy.
What do you think?
Grutjes
@[email protected]
Wow. Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE.
For anyone still thinking Bsky is a real alternative to Twitter: No, it's not.
Mastodon is. Bsky is just X at its infancy.
What do you think?
My review of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
This is the first James Bond novel in the series and the first James Bond novel I have ever read. My only encounter with 007 is through the...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
My review of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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My review of Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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Austerlitz by W.G Sebald
As I may have mentioned in my post on The Emigrants , after rereading that masterpiece I was so certain that I was in the presence of geniu...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
My review of Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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"Find another title. 'Sentimental education' is terrible." (Turgenev in a letter to Flaubert)
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"Find another title. 'Sentimental education' is terrible." (Turgenev in a letter to Flaubert)
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Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position
January 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position
My review of The Hunter by Tana French is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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The Hunter by Tana French
I've praised Tana French in the past for her willingness to take her time, to build suspense without resorting to crude action. (The ext...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Since the end of the Civil War at least, just about any time America has been faced with the question of whether to punish bad acts when the bad actors lose power, we’ve chosen to let them off the hook.
That has got to change this time.
That has got to change this time.
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Since the end of the Civil War at least, just about any time America has been faced with the question of whether to punish bad acts when the bad actors lose power, we’ve chosen to let them off the hook.
That has got to change this time.
That has got to change this time.
I’m a native speaker of English who lives in a non-anglophone country, so I’m not always up to speed with changes in the language. When did people start saying, “Suggest me a book about XYZ?”
In the past the we would have said, “Can you suggest any good books about XYZ?”
In the past the we would have said, “Can you suggest any good books about XYZ?”
January 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I’m a native speaker of English who lives in a non-anglophone country, so I’m not always up to speed with changes in the language. When did people start saying, “Suggest me a book about XYZ?”
In the past the we would have said, “Can you suggest any good books about XYZ?”
In the past the we would have said, “Can you suggest any good books about XYZ?”
My review of Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh is up at Conspicuous Consumption
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#books #reading #bookstodon
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#books #reading #bookstodon
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
At the beginning of Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh, the protagonist, Vesta, finds a note in the woods behind her house asserting ...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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#books #reading #bookstodon
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#books #reading #bookstodon
I don’t live in a place where there are little free libraries, so tonight was a first for me. I left a book in a Pasadena LFL, Ottessa Mosfegh’s Death in her Hands, for some lucky punter to find.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I don’t live in a place where there are little free libraries, so tonight was a first for me. I left a book in a Pasadena LFL, Ottessa Mosfegh’s Death in her Hands, for some lucky punter to find.
My review of the last book I finished in 2025, Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s first novel, which takes place mostly on board a ship and in South America, is clearly apprentice work. The young person’s ...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
My review of the last book I finished in 2025, Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
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I'm listening to the If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social about this book and it sounds INSANELY DISHONEST holy shit political science professors. Stupid and morally rancid.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm listening to the If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social about this book and it sounds INSANELY DISHONEST holy shit political science professors. Stupid and morally rancid.
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I always like starting a new book at the same time I begin a trip. On the train to the airport i embarked on Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out.
Seems like an appropriate title.
Seems like an appropriate title.
December 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I always like starting a new book at the same time I begin a trip. On the train to the airport i embarked on Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out.
Seems like an appropriate title.
Seems like an appropriate title.