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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 3h

John Doe reflects on his unsatisfying Broadway experience with Sam Beckett.

Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 12h

"Chic and bijou."

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The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social · 15h

We too yearn for the heady days of the 1980s and 90s when decent, hardworking Portlanders could make their way in this town.

A cast photo from the movie Drugstore Cowboy.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 13h

That is fantastic 😂

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 2d

Are You There God? It's Me, Maigret.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 16h

two photos of a building at night

And so begins the final struggle.

The struggle between money and blood.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 16h

One more! - The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 16h

Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson; Among the Thugs by Bill Buford; Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger; Sea State by Tabitha Lasley; Homicide by David Simon; Hella Nation by Evan Wright; Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan; Deep Sea & Foreign Going by Rose George; Number Go Up by Zeke Faux...

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 20h

Houellebecq 20/1! Come on.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 20h

"I found solace in the certainty that..it would be enough to fall asleep and forget about everything, and I plotted long stretches of slumber that would shorten my life, allowing me to reach-without having wholly lived, without my presence being too noted-the age when no-one expects anything of us."

Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent thread. I've only read reviews, but the series seems at best dubious. The tricksy apparatus throughout the show that you discuss comes off as a bit of a pretext to just do what it really wants: wallow in the violence and aberrance.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 1d

If he hears it, is he wearing a funny hat? And does a tree fall?

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 2d

This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 2d

A very good appreciation of OBAA, PTA, and Pynchon. From @davidhering.bsky.social

davidhering.substack.com/p/a-few-smal...

A Few Small Beers with Pynchon: On One Battle After Another

If you put Paul Thomas Anderson’s films alongside each other you’d have a shadow history of California.

davidhering.substack.com

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