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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 23h

Sunday supper of blackeyed peas with okra, crushed red pepper and bacon. Served over white rice. Accompanied by a tall glass of iced tea (unsweet).

Blackeyed peas with okra and bacon. Served over white rice.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lunch today with my friend Claudia who is a genius and will be reading from and talking about her new book Triage tonight for @litquake.bsky.social in Oakland.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bette Davis may very well have been first to use a now ubiquitous comeback. Monroe Owsley says "Come on now, let's quit kidding." Bette Davis quips "That's what he said." Poor Monroe's confused: "That's what who said? Davis: "That's what every man says." Yet another reason she is Queen Queen.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Watched a zinger of a pre-code movie titled "Ex-Lady" with Bette Davis and Gene Raymond. Bette's character, Helen, is an independent-minded woman who is an illustrator for Cosmopolitan magazine and other publications. Favorite line: "No one has any rights about me, but me."

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A flock of poems Is called a forgiveness -- Kimberly Garrett

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching very young James Caan and Martin Sheen in an episode of Route 66 from 1961. Caan was so new to television he was billed as Jimmy Caan.

The episode of Route 66 featuring James Caan and Martin Sheen was titled "...and the cat jumped over the moon."

The stars of the series were Martin Milner and George Maharis.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

told the cabdriver none of these words are accurately describing the many smells of the car they hang out in.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had never seen the Tim Curry episode of Tales From the Crypt. Wow. What an extraordinary set of performances. Here he is in all three roles.

Tim Curry Tim Curry and Tim Curry in Tales From the Crypt.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last Giants game of the season, I decided to go for the kielbasa.

Kielbasa at the Giants v Dodgers game, 9/27 🧡🖤

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read Jaws by Peter Benchley this summer and I was shocked to see that the 24th printing of the 50th anniversary edition contained a blatant factual error no one at Doubleday had caught in all those reprints. It concerns the movie Weekend at the Waldorf (not where my thumb is...farther down)

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today being the birthday of @scottheim.bsky.social, it's a fitting day to watch one of my favorite Gregg Araki movies, Mysterious Skin, based on Heim's powerful novel.

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT BRADY CORBET MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG and ELISABETH SHUE

STRAND RELEASING PRESENTS A FILM BY GREGG ARAKI

MYSTERIOUS SKIN

From the director of THE DOOM GENERATION, TOTALLY F***ED UP and THE LIVING END

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My friend of 21 years and countless good times, Kimberly Garrett, has gone way too soon. We had one of our movie nights on Monday and an especially good talk. Two days later she died peacefully, leaving so many broken hearts. I am hanging on to the many beautiful memories. But oh I miss you, Kim.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Latest issue of @andchangepoetry.bsky.social is lit. Here is a poem by Blue Fay:

BLUE FAY

Break open the word despair and you'll find it contains nothing but air

The morning after I moved to L.A.,
I found a cattle skull smashed
on the sidewalk. That afternoon, I saw
a man in a pair of waders pull a koi fish
out of Echo Park Lake. The fish was exquisite,
all dark gold scales and big pink lips
gasping around the hook
of the man's fishing line. He held the koi
in his arms like it was a toddler throwing
a tantrum, carefully working the hook
out of its mouth, before wading
out into the lily pads and lowering
it back into the water. There is no mercy
without terror. In all the years since your death,
I have never questioned how a kiss
could turn into a knife. Something shatters
on the sidewalk. Something thrashes
in the shallows. I exhale.
I accept it all.

Loch Baillie
Bryan Borland
James Daniello Jr.
Blue Fay
Luke Janicki
Jaymz Lea
Andrés López
Randall Mann
Kyle Okeke
Tom White

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was indeed Ketchum. I have his mailing address in my old address book.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From Cape Cod poet John Bonanni's book Retrovirilogy (University of Pittsburgh Press) this haunting eloquent poem "Death of the Sperm Whale."

Death of the Sperm Whale

At the Whaling Museum in New Bedford,
my father & I walk into a life-
size ship of what a vessel might
have looked like for the long need
of whale slaughter. Everyone
is here on a Saturday. We walk
around the deck & duck our heads
in the same way any sailor would
& just like a real sailor, you, too, can touch
wood & you, too, can hit your head on the mast.
We roam to a Plexiglas table
to peer into the quarters below:
Small, claustrophobic. A group
of school children climbs aboard.
A chaperone tells them to stay together,
but they don't.
One child disappears
into the laughter.
Another child
won't stop crying.
He is afraid of the stairs.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mom turned 86 today. 🎊❤️

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No it's long grain rice and wild rice. I think you might be thinking of spaghetti-o 🤔

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Saw the new digital restoration of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore at the Berkeley film archive. I don't think I ever fully appreciated how brilliant Ellen Burstyn's performance is, as a mom, an aspiring singer and a woman in search of love. Great cast including Harvey Keitel & Jodie Foster.

Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorcese

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I hope my godkids like this card I made of the three of them celebrating birthdays of the eldest two.

Three kids who truly are characters 😃❤️🎈

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Attestation. Parker's estate continues to fight racism.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's kind of amazing that there was time when you could call Nina Simone collect and ask her a question.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rewatched the original Murder on the Orient Express, a true gem with an audaciously star-studded cast. Richard Widmark, Sir John Gielgud, Lauren Bacall, Anthony Perkins, Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Rachel Roberts, Dame Wendy Hiller...

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure" was just the message I needed when I saw this movie at 16. And I did.

Tim Curry as Frankenfurter in the 1975 classic Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Made my grandmother's chicken soup and I could hear her saying a shallot is not the same as a leek and also good use of dill but where is the parsley you have to make it (deep breath) healthy. Also what's with the macaroni you couldn't make egg noodles? I know she would have loved to make it herself

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it)

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Problem: I Need a Man Solution: Pull Up to the Bumper

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

in August in San Francisco, folks hardly seem to notice the rather gory sidewalks under the Red Flowering Gum trees, which shed the stamens of their umbellasters in vivid shades of vermillion and crimson. I find myself absolutely transfixed by these tiny filaments windswept and wondrous.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Dying together's even more personal than living together" Tallulah Bankhead in Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat"

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This chapbook by @miguelmurphy.bsky.social is rocking my world right now. Published by andchangepoetry.bsky.social "because what else can you do/ To meet the intensity with intensity to die/ In June with your tongue hanging out/ To march with your cock in your hand/ And a rock in your heart..."

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Liv Ullman and Peter Finch in one of my all-time favorite movies "Lost Horizon" (the musical).

The beautiful thing about this movie is that, like Camelot and Paint Your Wagon, almost none of the principle players (in this case Finch and Ullman as well as Charles Boyer, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeda, George Kennedy, Michael York, John Geilgud) could actually sing. And most of the songs were horrible. And yet it all creates a spectacular kind of theatrical magic. 🪄 🎥 🍿♥️

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I hope someone said Eisenstein. It not, I'm sayin it. The OG of OGs.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"For Our Students Reading the Odyssey" by Brenda Hillman. From her 2022 book In a Few Minutes Before Later.

For Our Students Reading the Odyssey

A little hope existed in the fate shapes

Then you remembered how alike you were to earth

Mercury minutes not stolen from time

Each phrase gleaming with a color of the senses

But history hovered while the leader spoke landishly

But a goddess had bathed you

But the sailor had fallen from the house

& when barley had been offered for the dead

& when the invisible had been eaten by the visible

Much was offered sticky sugars from the pines

The so-called lower elements still had eyes

& spoke to you or could have

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

At the risk of causing longer wait times for everyone including myself, I have to say that the best breakfast in San Francisco is still Eddie's on Divisadero.

Porkchops, hashbrowns, eggs, sourdough toast and a cup of tea. Plus Tabasco.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One of my favorite San Francisco trees, the Flaxleaf Paperbark. In summer it is covered in hundreds of frilly little white flowers. Hence it's common name: Snow in Summer

A Flaxleaf Paperbark tree in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

May these Polish dumplings find their way into you.

Beef and carrot dumplings with cranberry sauce

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Gigantes won in the bottom of the 10th. 🖤🧡⚾

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Two thirds of the way through, and Brody is getting down to business.

"I've heard the name," Brody said. "Did you ever look into the guy, Harry?"

"I read what little there was. As far as I know, he's never done anything illegal."

"Well," said Brody, "maybe it's worth a call."

"You're joking," said Hooper. "You'd really do business with this guy?"

"I'll tell you what, Hooper. At this point, if someone came in here and said he was Superman and he could piss that shark away from here, I'd say fine and dandy. I'd even hold his dick for him."

"Yeah, but...”

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