Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 23hYears back I went to a reading of hers and she signed my dog-eared and waterstained copy with a tiny, tight signature. 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 23hDelighted that Anne Carson got the Nobel Prize. A little bummed that none of the articles have mentioned the book that was my introduction to her writing and that is still my favorite of her works: Glass, Irony, and God. 120
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hegseth and Trump share a passion for spectacle. 020
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Shirley MacLaine making hit after hit late in her career. She also starred in my wing-walking biopic shot by Wim Wenders and featuring 50 Cent, Craig T. Nelson, and Helena Bonham Carter. 030
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No self-reflection? What about "Sterling's Gold"? 1180
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026static.klipy.comB.B. King Playing Guitar on American MastersAlt: B.B. King, star of Spies Like Us, playing guitar on PBS 010
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Have a cold/allergy event for several days now in which every single of my many, many coughs is accompanied by acute pain across my head. I think understand better why people looked to trepanning. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Back during Trump 1.0 when Rex Tillerson was nominated to be Sec of State, I predicted that the US would formally declare Crimea part of Russia in exchange for oil drilling contracts for US companies the Arctic. A decade later, seems like they are still negotiating terms. 131
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026No. But I’ve watched through the rear view mirror as my 2yo vomited up two absolute ropes of puke in the back seat as we drove down I-16 in the rain. And honestly, I foresee the cupped hands thing in my future. We’re all just bags of turbulent goo with a few bones in the mix. 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. - Wendell Berry, 1968 041
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I consider myself an agrarian, a humanist, and a patriot. Berry helped me develop and define these characteristics. Godspeed, Wendell Berry. RIP. 010
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Berry quoted EM Forrester from Howard’s End: “it all turns on affection.” And it does. Giving care and warmth to our families and communities and environment is a “need to have” not a “nice to have”. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Berry had discipline, something I still struggle with. He applied focus and attention to his craft. In his study of farming and husbandry he came also to understand the effort and care needed in our relationships with the earth and with one another. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I appreciated his emphasis on small scale. (I concurrently was reading EF Schumacher, so this was reinforced.) Berry and Schumacher were skeptical of, if not downright allergic to, modern life’s relentless pursuit of growth and expansion. I’ve adopted this caution in my own life. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I first read his work when I was 22 and working on an organic farm near the Delaware Water Gap. The crew always read a book each summer and that year we read The Unsettling of America. I then read more and more of his essays on my own. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I met him once in NYC and it was as nervous as I’ve ever been. I was too nervous to have him sign a first edition that I had in my bag. But I did give him a letter I wrote. To my great surprise, he wrote back. And that letter is a treasure for me.nytimes.comWendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. 130
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My vote for best Dolly song: open.spotify.com/track/4dDqSZ...open.spotify.comThe Grass Is BlueDolly Parton · The Grass Is Blue · Song · 1999 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Beast was pretty clear about what he likes.youtu.beYou Think I'm the Beast? - Saturday Night LiveYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 041
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026youtu.be/6jM1VgFWAasyoutu.beNanette’s Baguette 🥖 | Animated Story | Mo Willems WorkshopYouTube video by Hidden Pigeon Channel 010
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Imagine if Pat Buchanan had been born to American migrants in Bhutan and called for ending Zhabdrung Kuchoe (which is a thing!). Just imagine! 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026C'mon! Where's your sense of joy? Imagine if Tom Tancredo had been born to American migrants in Mongolia and called for ending Naadam, the national festival of wrestling, horse racing, and archery (which is a thing!). Astounding! 101
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Imagine if William F. Buckley Jr. had been born to American migrants living with British neopagans and called for ending Mabon (which is a thing!). 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Imagine if Peggy Noonan had been born to American migrants in Algeria and called for ending Afsay n tmuqqint, the fig harvest festival (which is a thing!). 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Imagine if Jesse Helms had been born to American migrants in Brazil and called for ending Dia de Ação de Graças (which is a thing!). 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Being in proximity to POTUS brings risk because he is a high profile target. Everyone understands this. But no one came into more danger because POTUS was secretly flown out elsewhere. So I don't understand the hullabaloo. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As for everyone else (journalists, aides, etc.), it's not like they were bait. The USAF wasn't flying AF1 out of Turkey to try to catch missiles. Everyone wanted that plane and those passengers home safely. The risk was not increased for anyone because POTUS wasn't on the plane. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Honestly, I don't see the big deal of Trump leaving on a second plane. He's POTUS (god help us), and his safety is paramount concern for USAF, USSS, etc. If they think he secretly shouldn't be on AF1, then that's how it goes. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Rural life, man. I used to keep the key to my car behind the sun visor. The farm’s field truck started with a screwdriver permanently lodged into the steering column. Never locked the door to the house. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There’s an article I want to print and save, but instead of being two pages of tight text and a photo, it is seven sheets of paper with the article scattered in between advertisements that cover up some of the text. Such a hassle. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hey, @ajc.com, Now that you’re an exclusively online newspaper, can you focus on making the experience more user friendly? The website is a mess of interruptions advertisements and banners. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It’s more niche, but Commonweal also does a good job of hosting debate. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026LRB and NYRB are great because they provide space for this sort of debate and rebuttal by the big minds of popular intellectual culture. Tribe went after Lenore in NYRB earlier this year. My favorite of the genre, though, is Wendell Berry dismantling EO Wilson. A masterpiece of a takedown. 331
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I didn’t make my point clearly. In cases in which there was a political consensus that X person was a bad person who should be prosecuted by the ICC, the US has options that don’t involve recognizing ICC jurisdiction over US persons. Detain and extradite. “ICC for thee, not for me.” 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Couldn’t US detain and turn over someone to another county that does recognize ICC and have them put him before the court? We arrest and extradite all the time. 110
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026What they put together for the World Cup has been great. Hope there will be many more free concerts and events to come. 100
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026P: Did you watch any of their prior matches this tournament? M: No. Why? Should I have? Whatever happened in their matches will have absolutely no predictive or informative value for what might happen in this match. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is where working for yourself really has drawbacks. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026In the next week, Joe Biden is going to say nicer things about Lindsey Graham than Donald Trump will. 032
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Have those statues always been there, or are those some new addition? 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I love the USWNT, but in 2023 they didn’t do any better than this year’s USMNT. Eliminated in first knockout match. That loss to Sweden was brutal. Missed 3 of 7 penalties. Horrible. 000
Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I went to YDFM this morning with my toddler, and it was the sort of wonderful, beautiful, diverse version of America I want her to grow up in. Happy Independence Day, all. 010
