Art by Rylee Fitch, a 14 year old eighth grader, in the 4-H Building at the Minnesota State Fair.

#gunreform #mnstatefair

With only nine likes and two comments (one of them mine), I’m pulling up some rare diamonds from the seabed of YouTube. Listen to Stanley Elkin’s gutsplitting hilarious spoken introduction of Robert Coover #literature #robertcoover #stanleyelkin

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I’ve been reading Robert Coover lately and watching interviews of him. Amazing thinker. Here he discusses his early influences, especially Samuel Beckett.

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The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis is small but thrilling. A good study of artmaking within dictatorships. #tmora #museum #art #paintings #russianart #threemilkmaids

On a quest for #shortstories. Who is your favorite #shortstory writer. Just finished #MirandaJuly’s assembly of misfits and perversions. The voices feel ungrounded, with people brushing up against each other…

Shout out to filmmaker Jeffrey Skoller, for his humanistic videos. See "Occupation Diary" about one man's complex choice during Nazi invasion in Greece during WWII. Skoller interviews neighbors and excavates astonishing tales from the people next door. jeffreyskoller.com/film%2Fvideo

An astonishing film by "Black Wave" Serbian filmmaker Zelmir Zilnik. A formal documentary where subjects shout, directily addressing the camera, their stories of resisting fascism in WWII. Pastoral mise-en-scene, poetic and impactful.

www.zilnikzelimir.net/uprising-jazak

I've watched this goofball on instagram for a while, then he came out with something rock hard serious! This instantly puts every other music video on mute.

#newmusic #andyarthursmith #nativetongue

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"July's novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I've ever read." --New York Magazine

So there!

Snuggle up with #AllFours this spooky season.

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#MirandaJuly

I've followed Miranda July's career for a long time, seen her live twice, and met her once. So it was exciting to find her new book in a Little Library waiting for me. I recommend it. It's about freedom, sexual and mental. It's airy with endless humor. #mirandajuly #kinky

John Smith talks about his film The Black Tower. I love how he describes editing as a "repair job" or "salvage job" and the process of connecting parts of a film that don't quite fit together.

#experimentalfilm

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Sink into this riveting, impeccable experimental film which has all the dementedness of a modernist mystery. Reminds me a bit of Cortazar's short story Axolotl or Beckett's Theatre of the Absurd.

#experimentalfilm

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Art is better than politics. Would rather be inspired than infuriated. Going back to my aesthetic roots.
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