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Chalecos Salvavidas

@chalecos.bsky.social
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Promiscuous Reader | Shade Grown | Tonsure Enthusiast | Haikus Made From Whatever I’m Reading

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
MISTAKES IN FICTION DEPT: "And now I’ve made an error and there are eighteen-wheelers stopped ahead of me, eighteen-wheelers behind. And not for a great long while will I be released from the lineup for this weigh station." -From Why Did I Ever, entry number 25, by Mary Robison
This is the cover of Mary Robison’s novel Why Did I Ever. The text post is an excerpt from entry number 25 in the novel, which reads as follows: "And now I’ve made an error and there are eighteen-wheelers stopped ahead of me, eighteen-wheelers behind. And not for a great long while will I be released from the lineup for this weigh station."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
LIBRARY DEPT: I love libraries! Recently, in Chelsea, NY, a duck library has materialized! The premise is simple: GIVE A 🦆 TAKE A 🦆 Support your local library!
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"…mildly erotic with its curvaceous plaster walls." -Michael Kimmelman on the renovation of The Frick www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a...
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The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation
The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
QUOTES DEPT: "A thousand of my father’s most subtle syllogisms could not have said more for celibacy." -L. Sterne, Shandy
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
READING DEPT: Elias Canetti In bed with some light reading.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
READING AND WRITING DEPT: You have to put in the 10,000 hours. Garner told The Paris Review: “The diaries are how I turned myself into a writer — there’s my 10,000 hours.” -from Helen Garner’s diaries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
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‘My 10,000 Hours’: The Diaries That Made Helen Garner a Writer
“How to End a Story” collects three volumes of the Australian novelist’s self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@slotkin.senate.gov: you need to say “SPENDING IS GOOD, AND HERE’S WHY: FREE EDUCATION FOR EVERYBODY, HEALTHCARE, SCIENCE FOR THE FARMERS AND THE REST OF US, WHATEVER!" Own why democrats can govern, goddammit!
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Nice to see Leonard Cohen remaining culturally relevant. A character in the red-glasses skit on SNL: "I once went down on Leonard cohen."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN EMOJIS DEPT: Type in Emoji Kitchen into the google browser and mix and match emojis. Because it’s things like this that really matter right now.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
MY CELEBRITY AUTOBIO DEPT: Chow Yun Fat at a screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled, Divine on a NYC street. Asked for an autograph and got one. He was divine! Jerome Hellman, ditto autograph. Got a wave back from Tom Hiddleston on a NYC sidewalk.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
PARAPHRASE DEPT: Hamlet "There is more philosophy in fiction, dear reader, than are dreamt of in philosophy."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
AMERICAN DYSTOPIA DEPT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
READING DEPT: PROUST I have decided to begin reading Proust again this year, and this time finish it. The elegant Penguin Modern Classics paperback editions, from the UK are expected to arrive on February 12. I am intimidated and excited in equal measure. I hope to recapture my focus.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
AI SNAFU DEPT: "Journalism" Fail The HAL 9000 is just running the show now, so STFU.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
TEXT-SPAM DEPT: "Is there still room for improvement in the proposal we discussed last time?"
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanksgiving day mood.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
WIKIPEDIA LITERARY LIVES: John D. Macdonald, Weight Loss: "Following his 1945 discharge from the army, MacDonald spent four months writing short stories, generating some 800,000 words and losing 20 pounds (9.1 kg) while typing 14 hours a day, seven days a week."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
READING & BOOKS DEPT: Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it has this in it: J. G. Ballard and Bob Dylan traveling together to a Richard prince exhibit. My heart is full. I am done. Nothing can top this.
The cover of Cellophane Bricks, A Life in Visual Culture by Jonathan Lethem.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT: I’m too sober for this.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
MUST WATCH DEPT: Mr. K • 2024 Dir: Tallulah H. Schwab A little bit of Kafka, a little bit of Walser. Looks like my kind of cinematic recipe.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
"…a vase in a window, a blip on the radio, a misplaced brick in a wall." -The New Yorker, page 36, Sept. 16, 2024
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
READING DEPT: WARHOL, PHILOSOPHY A whole day of life is like a whole day of television. -p. 5 You can do so much more with a chair than you can with a painting. -p. 6
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
EPIGRAPH DEPT: Janet Malcom’s Reading Chekhov, A Critical Journey "What torture it is to cut the nails on your right hand!" -Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper, October 30, 1903
Epigraph for Janet Malcom’s Reading Chekhov, A Critical Journey
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
DREAM DEPT: I’m in line to check my luggage and get my boarding pass at the airport, with my dog, which in the dream is the wrong breed, when I suddenly realize I left my passport at home.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
"There were some things, some anger or passion that was beyond my understanding and had been tamped down for too long." -Diane Williams, from the Oct. 2, 2018 NY Times profile Once you read her your mind will order speech into her cadences. www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/b...
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Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book (Published 2018)
The 72-year-old avant-garde writer and editor will publish a career-spanning collection this month.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC Well, my list of things to do is, I got work at the top and then a chick I gotta work out and then I have to pack my place.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
EVERYBODY IN NYC RIGHT NOW: Did you feel the earthquake? ME: I have no feelings.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Photos that look like they’re from a Beckett play. Credit: Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
A couple enjoys some privacy as they embrace in a hole in the sand on a beach in Santa Monica. July 4, 1950.

Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
My mood, most of the time.
House on Haunted Hill • 1959
Dir: William Castle
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
#AdviceCorner
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
So many song lines I did not know.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Stanley warned us. We’ve seen this movie.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
"Tengo que get el fuck out of aqui…" -Best use of Spanglish, ever, anywhere by a not-native Spanish speaker: Thomas Pynchon, 'Against the Day' 2006.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
FAVORITE ARTISTS: Nic Nicosia Real Pictures #11, gelatin silver print, 1988, Honolulu Museum of Art
Real Pictures #11, gelatin silver print by Nic Nicosia, 1988, Honolulu Museum of Art
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Get all your reading recs from @pabstblueribbon.bsky.social They know whereof they speak, and they like the weird. Keep it weird!
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
I am not a person with a complicated fate.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
ROOMS: "Everyone carries a room about inside him." ― Franz Kafka, 'Blue Octavo Notebooks'
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
No.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
"Odd fog patch in the south." -Foreign weather report
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
"More and more in my films, I’m trying to suppress what people call plot. Plot is for novelists." -Robert Bresson, on the eve of beginning production on ‘Pickpocket', a film he wanted to be about "hands, objects, and glances."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey!
Test your political attitudes here:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=-7.25&soc=-7.13
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
New York City people.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
J’refuse!
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
weedy little customer ended up back down some hole early in his life #PynchonHaiku #AgainstTheDay #Reading #ThomasPynchon #Haiku
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