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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · Aug 28
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Mason & Dixon and Molloy
unlox.bsky.social Coffee Porter Jr. @unlox.bsky.social · 15d
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Three second exposure in the dark dark night out back; floodlight on. There is a lightly clouded sky with stars; there are evergreens and fence posts, uncertain foliage; there is a barn . . . . Blacks and deep greens are present, as are reds and ochres, in the golden throw of light. Blue too.
October 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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So happy for LK — these guys haven’t shut up all morning!
My László Krasznahorkai collection. There are a number of titles; the majority are proof copies. Satantango is signed.
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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RIP Kaleb Horton
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I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
Samuel Beckett in the trees throwing things on a burn pile, the flames taller than he. Photo by Barbara Bray.
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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September 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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my sky, tonight
moonsmudge and cloud obscuring smoky starlight
September 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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my sky, tonight
stars, sky, clouds, trees . . . there are some colors
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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my sky, tonight, through catalpa and fir
the moon, through trees
July 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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❌ 👑 Olympia
no kings rally in Olympia, WA at the state capitol
June 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Our oldest being (briefly) home from their first year of college, we got up to Fort Worden for the day—a favorite of both kids.
an old rusty door set in a concrete stairwell hidden in the grasses and trees of a hill. Through the door is a 30-foot drop and a rebar ladder.
May 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The roses are crazy this year!
climbing rose with many blossoms dominating the downspout another view of all those roses
May 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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rabbits
April 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Bunker Rule No. 1: The people in control of the bunker are lying about what’s outside the bunker.
April 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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HANDS OFF OUR DEMOCRACY
“Hands Off Our Democracy” sign with the State Capitol in the background approaching the Hands Off Olympia rally.
April 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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STOP Fascism
View from top of the Capitol steps at the Hands Off Olympia rally.
April 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Hands Off rally in Olympia, WA at the State Capitol, with marching band and signs ahead of rally start time.
April 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Hands Off Olympia
Hands Off rally in Olympia, WA at the State Capitol
April 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The best my phone can manage. This is the moon in totality during the eclipse, just before midnight, looking from near Olympia, WA: small and quite red through thin, diffuse clouds. You can see stars in the sky as well, and they’re all suspended above Douglas fir trees.
March 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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my sky, tonight
moonclouds with Orion over cottonwood and fir
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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my sky, tonight
strange cloud formations above evergreen trees
February 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.

I mean . . .
David Lynch
January 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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In college I screened the Mulholland Drive TV pilot—before ABC's decision—in a tiny focus group. We had no info re: what it was. Just knew it was Lynch and it was great! [ This was early 1998 at latest. ] Then it disappeared for what seemed forever. I'm so glad Lynch finished it the way he did . . .
January 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A riff on the Distracted Boyfriend meme I posted on September 14, 2017, after originally finishing Twin Peaks: The Return. The boyfriend is labeled "Twin Peaks Finale" looking with appreciation at the girl in red labeled "art," while the girlfriend labeled "expectations" looks at him, pissed. All of this is depicted on a canvas that is being painted by a man labeled "David Lynch" (and who is David Lynch).
January 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM