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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 14h

Tony Judt on the only lecture by Leszek Kołakowski he ever attended

Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 1d

Honored you thought of me. I did see this but haven’t had a chance to really listen yet. The amount of music released this year by bands I like has been insane

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 1d

Puts me in mind, as well, of Bede's story about the sparrow:

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Friday Florilegium

Part 2 of 2, for now

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 1d

A poem for All Souls’ Day from Jane Kenyon

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 2d

"Paris, Texas" is a Thanksgiving movie

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Mark @samueltwain.bsky.social · 3d

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My November Guest

My sorrow, when she’s here with me,

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 3d

Once again in the turning of the year we have made it—to the best month of the year

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 4d

Surprise — Katie and Allison Crutchfield's new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook is called Snocaps, and their debut album is out now:

Katie & Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, & Brad Cook Are Snocaps — Hear Their Surprise Debut Album

We knew something was afoot, we just didn’t know we’d be getting so much of it so quickly.

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Halloween youtu.be/Wp_JUkP2FUc?...

M.J. Lenderman + Ryan Davis cover Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" at Union Transfer in Philly

YouTube video by John Vettese

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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 7d

this is my new halloween album. creaky toy-keyboard soundscapes, odd samples, funny voices, tape hiss, it's all here
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/childr...

Children of Reverb Mountain, by Dragon Warrior

12 track album

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 6d

Happy birthday, Mark!!

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 15d

It's a great week to give good gifts one to another and peace, joy, and comfort gladly bestow

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 20d

a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a book in front of him and the website sharktankgifts.com is visible

ALT: a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a book in front of him and the website sharktankgifts.com is visible

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 20d

Any recommendations on what to listen to first?

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 21d

Wish this was me

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 22d

One of the greatest albums ever made for this time of year, imo

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Old Yellow Moon

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 22d

Marjorie Taylor Greene and John Fetterman enter the ring…only one will emerge victorious

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 22d

David Bentley Hart in 2013 (from “The Experience of God”):

“[Belief in “strong AI” arises when] like Narcissus bent above the waters, we look down at our creations and, captivated by what we see reflected in them, imagine that another gaze has met our own”

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 25d

Narrator:

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 26d

(Jokes the person, to be clear, who is currently reading Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop)

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 26d

Brodernism is back, baybee

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 26d

For some reason (I’m not sure why) the two I’ve read previously (Offshore and Gate or Angels) didn’t really click for me as a whole but very much enjoying this one so far

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 26d

It’s short and great, your friends need to listen!

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Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 26d

“The house agent was in no way legally bound to mention the poltergeist, though he perhaps alluded to it in the phrase /usual period atmosphere/” -Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

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