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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 · 15/05/2025

It’s Constance Cummings (CBE (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005) was an American-British actress with a career spanning over 50 years.), for those asking.

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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 · 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 · 08/03/2025

EPIGRAPH DEPT: From W. H. Auden’s 'The Dyer’s Hand'

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

EPIGRAPH DEPT: From Diane Williams’s 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 First published in 2001 by Dalkey Archive Press

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

MUST WATCH DEPT: Bad Luck • 1960 (Polish: Zezowate szczęście) Dir: Andrzej Munk. The opportunism of a social and political chameleon propels him repeatedly into ludicrous and pathetic failures in Poland, from fascist anti-Semitism in the 1920s to the postwar Stalinist period.

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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

READING DEPT: PROUST It’s here, and it’s good. The translator’s introduction anyway.

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

They’re already here, but they’re uglier, have shitty pitch, and are really cranky. This is not going to end well.

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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 · 01/01/2025

FAVORITE ARTISTS: Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999) 'Eleanor, Chicago' 1948 Gelatin silver print © The Estate of Harry Callahan. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

The photographer’s wife, Eleanor, in the lower-right part of the frame, seen from behind, from the waist up, in a dark room, with a huge window giving little illumination in the center-right of the frame.

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT: It’s cold out, and people are wearing coats, so I can’t do much t-shirt reading in public, but thank god for social media. bsky.app/profile/slee...

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I still miss the Moondance Diner, on a slow day. Opened in 1933 and closed in 2012 at 88 Sixth Avenue, between Grand Street and Canal Street. It will live on in mainly mediocre movies.

Exterior of the Moondance Diner was a diner in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Frequently shown or alluded to in film and television productions, it operated from 1933 to 2012 at 88 Sixth Avenue, between Grand Street and Canal Street.

Interior of the Moondance Diner was a diner in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Frequently shown or alluded to in film and television productions, it operated from 1933 to 2012 at 88 Sixth Avenue, between Grand Street and Canal Street.

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The humble star ship C-57D, landing on the distant planet, Altair IV, in search of the lost Bellerophon mission. There, they find its only surviving member, the philologist Dr. Edwin Morbius, and his daughter. Tempestuous, Freudian shenanigans ensue. From the 1956 film 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙩.

Star ship C-57D, landing on the planet Altair IV, where the lost Bellerophon ship had become lost. A color still from the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.

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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 · 17/09/2024

MUST WATCH DEPT: Institute Benjamenta • 1995 Dir: the brothers Quay Based on Robert Walser's novel Jakob von Gunten, it has a dream-nightmare quality that makes for riveting watching.

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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 · 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

"But when the Hotel Yalta came into view I caught my breath at its spectacular ugliness…like a brute’s blow in the face of the countryside."

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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 · 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

FAVORITE ARTISTS: Jeff Wall The Giant, 1992 Transparency in lightbox 19 1/2 x 23 x 4 3/4 in. (49.53 x 58.42 x 12.07 cm)

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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 · 13/09/2023

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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Edward Ruscha OOF 1962 (reworked 1963)

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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

"One day I experienced a small, charming adventure with my landlady, wife of the cantonal notary, on account of a picture hanging on the wall of my room." -Robert Walser, Apollo and Diana, in 'Looking at Pictures'

Apollo and Diana in a Wooded Landscape, by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Date: 1530
Medium: oil on beech wood
Dimensions: height: 51.6 cm (20.3 in); width: 36.4 cm (14.3 in)

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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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