Peter Blair
@peterblair.bsky.social
Here because of addict behavior
Every Éric Rohmer movie (just watched My Night at Maud’s)
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Every Éric Rohmer movie (just watched My Night at Maud’s)
Try and try and try/
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Try and try and try/
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
“The whole universe was created by God, God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God…Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed.” -St. Anselm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The whole universe was created by God, God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God…Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed.” -St. Anselm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Oh, good luck with your Fourierism
December 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Oh, good luck with your Fourierism
“Love is sufficient in itself, gives pleasure through itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself…I love because I love, I love so that I may love” St Bernard quoted in DBH, Experience of God
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Love is sufficient in itself, gives pleasure through itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself…I love because I love, I love so that I may love” St Bernard quoted in DBH, Experience of God
"The Conqueror's victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. But through this wonderful blending the mystery of new birth shone upon us" - Pope Leo I on the Incarnation
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"The Conqueror's victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. But through this wonderful blending the mystery of new birth shone upon us" - Pope Leo I on the Incarnation
Good afternoon open.spotify.com/track/4wOuyj...
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
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December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Good afternoon open.spotify.com/track/4wOuyj...
"Ayer also said that Wittgenstein often made friends not because of their intellectual gifts but because of their moral qualities" -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly Bottle
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Ayer also said that Wittgenstein often made friends not because of their intellectual gifts but because of their moral qualities" -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly Bottle
“Then [Murdoch] said that she had some things in common, as a moral philosopher, with Miss Anscombe and Mrs Foot..they were interested in ‘the reality that surrounds man—transcendent or whatever.’” -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly-Bottle
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Then [Murdoch] said that she had some things in common, as a moral philosopher, with Miss Anscombe and Mrs Foot..they were interested in ‘the reality that surrounds man—transcendent or whatever.’” -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly-Bottle
“Lord [Bertrand] Russell explained that he had two models for his own style—Milton’s prose and Baedeker’s guidebooks” -Ved Mehta, “Fly and the Fly-Bottle”
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“Lord [Bertrand] Russell explained that he had two models for his own style—Milton’s prose and Baedeker’s guidebooks” -Ved Mehta, “Fly and the Fly-Bottle”
Happy Friday open.spotify.com/track/2IVxSQ...
Jingle Bells Pt.1
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December 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Happy Friday open.spotify.com/track/2IVxSQ...
Reposted by Peter Blair
At the office holiday party saying “Must be nice.” to everything anyone says
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
At the office holiday party saying “Must be nice.” to everything anyone says
Now is a great time to read this great little book (as I have just myself discovered)
December 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Now is a great time to read this great little book (as I have just myself discovered)
“It would be hard to count the number of times the death of the novel has been announced, in tragic tones. But despite its execution new novels continue to appear, some of them quite good ones” -Leszek Kołakowski
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“It would be hard to count the number of times the death of the novel has been announced, in tragic tones. But despite its execution new novels continue to appear, some of them quite good ones” -Leszek Kołakowski
I went to the sale today of his books and it was an absolutely insane experience.
A deceased Philly lawyer found to have owned ~100,000 books, including "The Quantum Theory of Fields, Manual of Vascular Plants, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, The Art of Dying Well, Ulysses, Why Bob Dylan Matters, & Leading a Human Life." share.inquirer.com/k0b8YG
A Delancey Street townhouse filled with 100,000 books is a bibliophile’s dream — and an epic estate sale
The amazing athenaeum of a modern-day Renaissance man who lived in Rittenhouse Square will be part of an upcoming estate sale from Sales by Helen.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I went to the sale today of his books and it was an absolutely insane experience.
Reposted by Peter Blair
happy bandcamp friday! i haven't completed a lot of projects lately, but i am very proud of SWEETHEART OF THE PLANETARIUM, an album of lo-fi instrumental dream pop / ambient i released this summer. it's pay-what-you-want and i'd be honored if you'd listen dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/sweeth...
Sweetheart of the Planetarium, by Dragon Warrior
15 track album
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December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
happy bandcamp friday! i haven't completed a lot of projects lately, but i am very proud of SWEETHEART OF THE PLANETARIUM, an album of lo-fi instrumental dream pop / ambient i released this summer. it's pay-what-you-want and i'd be honored if you'd listen dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/sweeth...
“We simply like knowing things, quite apart from any practical benefits to be derived from knowledge; we like truth for no better reason than that it is truth. Without the joy of truth we would no longer be rational creatures” -Leszek Kołakowski
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“We simply like knowing things, quite apart from any practical benefits to be derived from knowledge; we like truth for no better reason than that it is truth. Without the joy of truth we would no longer be rational creatures” -Leszek Kołakowski
“Wake Up Dead Man” using “Come On Up to the House” as the credits song was an unnecessary act of pandering (I had already enjoyed the film) but one I can only support
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“Wake Up Dead Man” using “Come On Up to the House” as the credits song was an unnecessary act of pandering (I had already enjoyed the film) but one I can only support
For those getting started today open.spotify.com/playlist/5kY...
Mostly Americana Christmas
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November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
For those getting started today open.spotify.com/playlist/5kY...
“I'd howl like a dog, I'd sound like a real one/I'd burn like a candle and grin in your face”
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“I'd howl like a dog, I'd sound like a real one/I'd burn like a candle and grin in your face”