Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026MISTAKES 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 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 10/06/2025LIBRARY 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! 020
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...nytimes.comThe Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million RenovationThe museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure. 010
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 03/04/2025QUOTES DEPT: "A thousand of my father’s most subtle syllogisms could not have said more for celibacy." -L. Sterne, Shandy 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 24/03/2025READING DEPT: Elias Canetti In bed with some light reading. 020
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/03/2025READING 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...nytimes.com‘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. 000
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! 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Nice to see Leonard Cohen remaining culturally relevant. A character in the red-glasses skit on SNL: "I once went down on Leonard cohen." 020
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 15/02/2025MAKE 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. 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025MY 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. 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025PARAPHRASE DEPT: Hamlet "There is more philosophy in fiction, dear reader, than are dreamt of in philosophy." 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 02/02/2025AMERICAN DYSTOPIA DEPT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...nytimes.comElon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System 000
Reposted by Chalecos Salvavidasstuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025This 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...nytimes.comElon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System 40192863804
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025READING 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. 110
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 15/12/2024AI SNAFU DEPT: "Journalism" Fail The HAL 9000 is just running the show now, so STFU. 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024TEXT-SPAM DEPT: "Is there still room for improvement in the proposal we discussed last time?" 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 27/11/2024WIKIPEDIA 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." 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 22/09/2024READING & 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. 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 22/09/2024T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT: I’m too sober for this. 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 17/09/2024MUST 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. 110
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 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 17/06/2024READING 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. 6 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/05/2024EPIGRAPH 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 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/05/2024DREAM 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. 000
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...nytimes.comDiane 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. 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/05/2024OVERHEARD 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. 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 05/04/2024EVERYBODY IN NYC RIGHT NOW: Did you feel the earthquake? ME: I have no feelings. 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Photos that look like they’re from a Beckett play. Credit: Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 000
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. 050
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/08/2023FAVORITE ARTISTS: Nic Nicosia Real Pictures #11, gelatin silver print, 1988, Honolulu Museum of Art 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 25/08/2023Get all your reading recs from @pabstblueribbon.bsky.social They know whereof they speak, and they like the weird. Keep it weird! 031
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 23/08/2023ROOMS: "Everyone carries a room about inside him." ― Franz Kafka, 'Blue Octavo Notebooks' 100
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 19/08/2023"Odd fog patch in the south." -Foreign weather report 000
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." 000
Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 13/08/2023weedy little customer ended up back down some hole early in his life #PynchonHaiku #AgainstTheDay #Reading #ThomasPynchon #Haiku 020