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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 7h

jk jk jk this is honestly a great win (so was Ernaux obviously but I have to assume you already know I feel that way)

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 7h

what’s nice is that the exact same bisexual gf/straight bf exes who texted each other when Ernaux won a few years ago are texting each other again today

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.

Claude Rains in Casablanca, smirking impishly.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

(my actual real-heads-only Dylan takes are so annoying that I didn’t tell my husband any of them until after we were married)

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

sorry to be that asshole who brings up a total real-heads-only deep cut, but: Blonde on Blonde

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

It's a given in the music industry that "I've fallen in love!" albums are usually regrettable, and "I've gotten a divorce!" ones often have some of the artist's best work. So question for the group, what are the best "I've fallen in love!" albums?

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

anyway somebody please let me write a big essay about being driven so mad by living through history that I read all twelve books of A Dance to the Music of Time in like six weeks

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

I finally finished A Dance to the Music of Time and basically this is what A Dance to the Music of Time is about

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

I’m letting myself reread Against the Day as a treat in advance of the new one and I cannot stress enough that this right here is the mud I want to live and be buried in, sorry in advance for how annoying I’m about to become

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

Third paragraph is weird, beautiful, allusive, funny. Pynchon heads we are so fucking back.

Loitering in the alleyway in back of Pasquale's Bella Palermo, Hicks can hear sounds of noodle-flexing sociabil-ity, smell spaghetti sauce and garlic frying and sfinciuni bagherese baking over an olive-branch fire, and it's making him hungry, though this close to payday his lunch menu is a thermos of coffee and a buttermilk cruller stashed in a pocket someplace.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

among other things, this is why intergenerational friendships are the key to wanting to stay alive and present in the world as one gets older (and certainly the only way to make a meaningful life in a place like NYC past the age of, idk, 32)

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

I’m making myself read a bunch of contemporary stuff, mostly so that I stop having to tell my friends “sorry my texts sound like they were written by somebody who fucked Evelyn Waugh in the Eton toilets,” but then, yeah probably

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

well that and your one weird friend from college being into weird sex stuff

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

I finally finished A Dance to the Music of Time and basically this is what A Dance to the Music of Time is about

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

the quotes here (on the post Angus is quoting) are a real treasure trove, and also this is why that line about “she was an astronaut” from that one later episode of Mad Men always destroys me

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of good stuff here, but also: If we live long enough, all of us become time travelers.

Six years ago I hung out with a woman who was in the American Student Union in the thirties, and who had her butt slapped by Martha Graham when they were both quite young.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 2d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute hell poison to believe the most valuable ideals are open exchange, debate, and regard for the beliefs of others, instead of actual ethics.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 4d

they're calling her "the coolest person who has ever been alive"

Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 5d

greta ily what an outfit

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

not the point of my post but EXTREMELY accurate to my experience as well

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

(post brought to you by several excellent photos of my husband wearing my nicest sweater while I’m away visiting family)

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

short guys who don’t want to date tall women is one thing (I have many opinions but that’s not the subject here), but tall guys who don’t want to date tall women are like oh so you really just want to buy your own sweaters for the rest of your life, huh

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

liking a pop music album shouldn’t require faith in things not seen!

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

imagine catholicism but the aesthetics aren’t even good

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 5d

are swifties okay

patreegs on instagram says

You need to listen to it once completely through while driving a car alone. Then you have to
listen to it indoors lying down. THEN you pick a few and listen to them WHILE you read the lyrics on your computer. You WILL find that you misheard some of the lyrics. DONT panic. Its COMPLETELY normal and healthy. DONT think about taylors life yet and DONT try to make sense of the lyrics and DONT panic if you dont like some of the songs at first bc your brain will LEARN to like them (evolutionary mechanism).
THEN, continue listening on loop as needed but have 2-3 that you sometimes just listen to on repeat. THEN re-emerge into the world and connect with others about their response to the text. THEN apply practically to your life. THEN examine how they fit into taylors. At this point you can start to lightly engage in online discourse if that feels healthy and safe.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

the last few Kali Uchis records are pretty great, Red Moon in Venus especially imo

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

I see everybody’s posting about their favorite perhaps-underappreciated pop albums from the last few years, and I just think that’s nice

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