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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 · 19/04/2026
You had me at "I don’t."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
MISTAKES IN FICTION DEPT: "“Just mistakes I make,” she says. “Like I left the kitchen thing burning again. On the what’s-it-called? Not the dashboard.” “The oven top. Coil stove. The burners,” I say. “But everybody does that. How long did you leave it on?” “Since the other night…" -Ibid., entry 36
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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 · 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: "Can't buy a thrill." -B. Dylan, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
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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 · 28/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC I can run, but my feet hurt.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This kind of mealy-mouthed capitulation is why Democrats lost in 2024 and will keep on losing. Give no quarter to snake oil hucksters, vaccine deniers, et al.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC I had a phone number for nine years and then the attack happened.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC I’m going to try on the dress.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC You don’t even deserve a sandwich.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC It should demonstrate some sort of contrition, obviously.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC He said he was only crying because you were crying.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC The café was packed with ugly people.
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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 · 20/03/2025
Like in El Salvador, as mentioned in Elmo’s tweet there, I think there are those in militias in the US that would happily do death squad work for the MAGAssholes. That’ll probably come next year.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC You tell her off and you basically end it with Ralph.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC We’ve run out of topics.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT: "I’ll see you in the desert."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
You get it. Seeing what we’re seeing, it’s obvious elections are over.
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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 · 11/03/2025
Uh…no offense intended, but where were they when it mattered?
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
That smiling little pixie Hassett is really going for that Goebbels vibe. Did nazi that coming!
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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 · 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 · 08/03/2025
READING DEPT: PROUST Only 70+ pages in and I need a break. I wonder if Proust is middlebrow, or for middlebrow readers to congratulate themselves for the stamina of getting through it…maybe something is lost in translation? I’ll come back, but my doubts are growing…maybe Proust isn’t for me?
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC This is a waste of time. We're all gonna die violently. Know what I mean.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC She's not poor. She's just broke.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Simple.
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a blue oil rig with a palm tree on top of it
ALT: a blue oil rig with a palm tree on top of it
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
READING DEPT: PROUST The madeleine finally makes its appearance on page 47. Quite the orgasm! "…I quivered, attentive to the extraordinary thing that was happening in me."
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I think journalists are either mediocre or thinking about a paycheck, and career longevity, so it’s rare to see any of them press hard on any topic. The censorious mood in press conferences is palpable. That’s how totalitarians win. Tada!
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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: Told John C. Reilly he was AWESOME at a CA. Trader Joe’s. He recoiled. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Laura Linney and I once made significant eye contact on a NYC sidewalk. Her glance lingered on mine for an uncomfortable length of time. Mine too I guess.
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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 · 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 · 11/02/2025
Game was already over. This is just Trump’s follow-through. There’s nothing anyone can do, and wouldn’t if they could.
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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 · 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
Aaron, stop with the optimism. They’re not wrong, you know this, and they’re coming for us.
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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 · 25/01/2025
This appears to be correct.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I get why you’d want to call this out, but repeating every burp and fart coming from the Big Brother party is promoting their noise and adding to news fatigue, when other, less sexy, things need to be pointed out.
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Chalecos Salvavidas @chalecos.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is correct.
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