InkOnLinen
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Architect, aphorist, Anaximandrist. Delirious ekphrast. MacDowell Fellow-in-Exile. H H Richardson idolator/historian. “Unabridged paranoid hippy monologues.” Mark Wright, but going as Vampire Catweazle. ✏️
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InkOnLinen
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· Aug 17
This is *the* book they are terrified their teenagers might be given to read. Chapter 4 is like something read into evidence at Nuremberg.
(I dare you. I **dare** you.)
(I dare you. I **dare** you.)
It’s not Diet Moxie, but damned if Diet Dr. P with several shakes of low alch orange bitters isn’t a delicious approximation. It has the ~*strange*~
Welcome to Fansville.
Welcome to Fansville.
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It’s not Diet Moxie, but damned if Diet Dr. P with several shakes of low alch orange bitters isn’t a delicious approximation. It has the ~*strange*~
Welcome to Fansville.
Welcome to Fansville.
Musk: Jeddak of All Barstools
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Musk: Jeddak of All Barstools
One ought not categorize Massive Magic Realism in the context of a technological culture as SF. Examples: Infinite Jest. Gravity’s Rainbow.
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
One ought not categorize Massive Magic Realism in the context of a technological culture as SF. Examples: Infinite Jest. Gravity’s Rainbow.
Not the writing of history…the *study of* and *writing about* the writing of history, which is itself—history, I mean—almost beside the point. Oh. Sounds like a dodge, but it’s crucial work. If one would *be* a tedious pedagogue, one must submit one’s self to tedious pedagogues by studying pedagogy.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Not the writing of history…the *study of* and *writing about* the writing of history, which is itself—history, I mean—almost beside the point. Oh. Sounds like a dodge, but it’s crucial work. If one would *be* a tedious pedagogue, one must submit one’s self to tedious pedagogues by studying pedagogy.
“You are, my dear sir, in the anteroom of Eternity.” “What?!”
—Dean Spanley
Perfect , papery, pugnacious Peter O’Toole, who has never been more beautiful.
—Dean Spanley
Perfect , papery, pugnacious Peter O’Toole, who has never been more beautiful.
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“You are, my dear sir, in the anteroom of Eternity.” “What?!”
—Dean Spanley
Perfect , papery, pugnacious Peter O’Toole, who has never been more beautiful.
—Dean Spanley
Perfect , papery, pugnacious Peter O’Toole, who has never been more beautiful.
I’ve read too much Pynchon and Melville too many times to come across as entirely, um, sane? when composing technical prose.
It…cackles, and huffs, puffs its chest and runs on.
One pretty picture sans commentary is usually best. Here’s a Cotswold slab roof by Barnsley and his squad. Apropos o’ nowt
It…cackles, and huffs, puffs its chest and runs on.
One pretty picture sans commentary is usually best. Here’s a Cotswold slab roof by Barnsley and his squad. Apropos o’ nowt
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I’ve read too much Pynchon and Melville too many times to come across as entirely, um, sane? when composing technical prose.
It…cackles, and huffs, puffs its chest and runs on.
One pretty picture sans commentary is usually best. Here’s a Cotswold slab roof by Barnsley and his squad. Apropos o’ nowt
It…cackles, and huffs, puffs its chest and runs on.
One pretty picture sans commentary is usually best. Here’s a Cotswold slab roof by Barnsley and his squad. Apropos o’ nowt
Try to keep it positive but
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Try to keep it positive but
What face does Thomas Pynchon see in dark, reflective surfaces? Perhaps that of his Puritan ancestor William Pynchon (var.sp. Pyncheon). Officer of the Crown. Heretic. Writer of the first book burned and banned in the
colony. Expelled. In his portrait he eschews a gentleman’s wig.
colony. Expelled. In his portrait he eschews a gentleman’s wig.
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
What face does Thomas Pynchon see in dark, reflective surfaces? Perhaps that of his Puritan ancestor William Pynchon (var.sp. Pyncheon). Officer of the Crown. Heretic. Writer of the first book burned and banned in the
colony. Expelled. In his portrait he eschews a gentleman’s wig.
colony. Expelled. In his portrait he eschews a gentleman’s wig.
3 new casinos in NYC will convert the futures of the children of the innumerable innumerate into cash for casino owners in the present one slot machine at a time. (It isn’t wealth, it’s pelf.)
Global warming is much the same: burn the future to fuel the present.
Global warming is much the same: burn the future to fuel the present.
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
3 new casinos in NYC will convert the futures of the children of the innumerable innumerate into cash for casino owners in the present one slot machine at a time. (It isn’t wealth, it’s pelf.)
Global warming is much the same: burn the future to fuel the present.
Global warming is much the same: burn the future to fuel the present.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
Avocado toast is ethnically-cleansed guacamole, and it comes garnished with my shame.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Avocado toast is ethnically-cleansed guacamole, and it comes garnished with my shame.
Had I my druthers, AOC would supplant our Salamander’n’Thief. Clearly military service is no longer requisite, but I submit that a few years waiting table ought to be. Character, intelligence, an aptitude for maths, and raw talent are what’s wanted. Love of golf is a 🚩
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Had I my druthers, AOC would supplant our Salamander’n’Thief. Clearly military service is no longer requisite, but I submit that a few years waiting table ought to be. Character, intelligence, an aptitude for maths, and raw talent are what’s wanted. Love of golf is a 🚩
🎶 good day sunshine
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🎶 good day sunshine
Lovely iron casting.
I’m told this was a “ Stink Pipe” a vent from the sewer. Seems highly decorated for such a lowly purpose? By the Stratford Canal. #Canals #StratfordUponAvon
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Lovely iron casting.
Pynchon writes Rijeka (deadnaming it Fiume) as the crossroads of a collapsing culture…a port through which to flee if you have managed to conceal enough gold to pay the passage. Many found themselves chained at the water’s edge. Is it still a place to dance and drink yourself into oblivion?
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Pynchon writes Rijeka (deadnaming it Fiume) as the crossroads of a collapsing culture…a port through which to flee if you have managed to conceal enough gold to pay the passage. Many found themselves chained at the water’s edge. Is it still a place to dance and drink yourself into oblivion?
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Goodbye Robert Stern, may you rest in Peace. We truly are losing the greats
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Goodbye Robert Stern, may you rest in Peace. We truly are losing the greats
Fare thee well and rest in peace
Robert A. M. Stern.
Architect.
.
Honor, and thanks.
Professor of mine in ‘79. Probably got my 2010 JSAH piece published (see bio). ‼️ ally in saving H H Richardson’s Percy Browne house in Marion MA, just this fall added to Preservation Mass’s 10 Most Endangered List.
Robert A. M. Stern.
Architect.
.
Honor, and thanks.
Professor of mine in ‘79. Probably got my 2010 JSAH piece published (see bio). ‼️ ally in saving H H Richardson’s Percy Browne house in Marion MA, just this fall added to Preservation Mass’s 10 Most Endangered List.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fare thee well and rest in peace
Robert A. M. Stern.
Architect.
.
Honor, and thanks.
Professor of mine in ‘79. Probably got my 2010 JSAH piece published (see bio). ‼️ ally in saving H H Richardson’s Percy Browne house in Marion MA, just this fall added to Preservation Mass’s 10 Most Endangered List.
Robert A. M. Stern.
Architect.
.
Honor, and thanks.
Professor of mine in ‘79. Probably got my 2010 JSAH piece published (see bio). ‼️ ally in saving H H Richardson’s Percy Browne house in Marion MA, just this fall added to Preservation Mass’s 10 Most Endangered List.
Once I retire I’ll start referring to myself as an Architect with a majuscule “A”
(rather than with a lower case ‘a’ and an interrobang)
(rather than with a lower case ‘a’ and an interrobang)
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Once I retire I’ll start referring to myself as an Architect with a majuscule “A”
(rather than with a lower case ‘a’ and an interrobang)
(rather than with a lower case ‘a’ and an interrobang)
“There go flukes!”
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Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“There go flukes!”
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13 ways of driving through New Jersey
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
13 ways of driving through New Jersey
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"I’m not useful like a carpenter or plumber. I sit alone
on veranda steps, gaze at the evening sky.
Neighbors are quiet; the road to the village is empty.
The moon set an hour ago."
on veranda steps, gaze at the evening sky.
Neighbors are quiet; the road to the village is empty.
The moon set an hour ago."
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"I’m not useful like a carpenter or plumber. I sit alone
on veranda steps, gaze at the evening sky.
Neighbors are quiet; the road to the village is empty.
The moon set an hour ago."
on veranda steps, gaze at the evening sky.
Neighbors are quiet; the road to the village is empty.
The moon set an hour ago."
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
comes into it. Into the “fondoozical cataclysm” of Shadow Ticket, I mean…from the resolute desk of Thomas Pynchon, wearing a pinched Borsalino, typing, wreathed in the reticulated fumes of an ambergris-scented ‘parmaceti candle and good Latakia. Running on. Lucid for now.
comes into it. Into the “fondoozical cataclysm” of Shadow Ticket, I mean…from the resolute desk of Thomas Pynchon, wearing a pinched Borsalino, typing, wreathed in the reticulated fumes of an ambergris-scented ‘parmaceti candle and good Latakia. Running on. Lucid for now.
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
comes into it. Into the “fondoozical cataclysm” of Shadow Ticket, I mean…from the resolute desk of Thomas Pynchon, wearing a pinched Borsalino, typing, wreathed in the reticulated fumes of an ambergris-scented ‘parmaceti candle and good Latakia. Running on. Lucid for now.
comes into it. Into the “fondoozical cataclysm” of Shadow Ticket, I mean…from the resolute desk of Thomas Pynchon, wearing a pinched Borsalino, typing, wreathed in the reticulated fumes of an ambergris-scented ‘parmaceti candle and good Latakia. Running on. Lucid for now.
Guessing all Mamdani had to do was wear serious captor shoes and assure the Don that he is
The Quintesssential New Yorker. This might even be true. His only worthy rival? Fran Lebowitz.
The Quintesssential New Yorker. This might even be true. His only worthy rival? Fran Lebowitz.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Guessing all Mamdani had to do was wear serious captor shoes and assure the Don that he is
The Quintesssential New Yorker. This might even be true. His only worthy rival? Fran Lebowitz.
The Quintesssential New Yorker. This might even be true. His only worthy rival? Fran Lebowitz.
To the #Nobel Prize for Literature curia, in re 2 Thomas Pynchon: it’s time you gave the man his medal. Roky Erickson’s no longer available, alas, but perhaps he’ll send Patti again.
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
To the #Nobel Prize for Literature curia, in re 2 Thomas Pynchon: it’s time you gave the man his medal. Roky Erickson’s no longer available, alas, but perhaps he’ll send Patti again.