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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 04/10/2026

The Freddie Freeman We Have at Home:

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 01/10/2026

i don’t like to brag, but the inspiration for the look of the aliens in Arrival came from my minivan’s back window

a rear window of a car all fogged up with trails of condensation that look like odd creatures

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

Lamp is gone, so I’m trying out a new lean

A turntable with a record playing; on the speaker is the LP jacket Tutti I Film di Fellini, a compilation of themes by Nino Rita

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

literally a mountain goats album title

The cover of Beautiful Rat Sunset by The Mountain Goats

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13/09/2026

My lunch is really something, and worth sharing

a hoagie roll loaded with cold cuts, lettuce, tomatoes on a pink plate

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 09/09/2026

The kid is at college and happy, what a day

Two parents and an adult kid happy and smiling

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 02/09/2026

Riding around on four of the 12-inch gold-plated phonograph discs from the Voyager spacecraft

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 30/08/2026

Brodsky offering an opinion about architects and their kind

scumbag of an architect, of that ghastly postwar persuasion that has done more harm to the European skyline than any Luftwaffe. In Ven-ice, he defiled a couple of wonderful campi with his edifices, one of which was naturally a bank, since this sort of human animal loves a bank with absolutely narcissistic fervor, with the longing of an effect for its cause. For that
"structure" (as they called it in those days) alone, I thought, he should be cuckolded. But

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 15/08/2026

Valeria Luiselli, from Sidewalks, with a litany of poetic critical takes (Derrida a pothole lmao)

Text that reads:

We buy old books
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.
T. S. Eliot: a plant growing in the debris of a ruined building; Salvador Novo: a tree-lined street transformed into an expressway;
Tomás Segovia: a boulevard, a breath of air; Roberto Bolaño: a rooftop terrace; Isabel Allende: a (magically real) shopping mall;
Gilles Deleuze: a summit; and Jacques Derrida: a pothole. Robert Walser: a chink in the wall, for looking through to the other side;
Charles Baudelaire: a waiting room; Hannah Arendt: a tower, an Archimedean point; Martin Heidegger: a cul-de-sac; Walter Benjamin: a one-way street walked down against the flow.
And everything we haven't read: relingos, absences in the heart of the city.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 01/08/2026

Some literary gem at the local library book sale. If anyone wants this copy of the Zukofsky issue, let me know. It’s long out of print and excellent.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 25/07/2026

so many good answers to this, but for me it’s Chantal Goya in Godard’s Masculin Feminin

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/07/2026

better image than Vitamin Water

Lebron in a library with lots of Vitamin Water behind him

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23/07/2026

[Eli Cash voice] “Well, everyone knows that Ebenezer Scrooge became a grumpy old miser as a result of neglecting his fiancée Belle. What this movie presupposes is…maybe he didn’t?”

Owen Wilson dressed in ridiculous cowboy clothes surrounded by reporters

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13/07/2026

Just checking in on the historical timeline in the front matter of my childhood Bible

A timeline that indicates that history started in 2000 BC

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 12/07/2026

You guys, the Sierras are simply sublime. If we are good friends and you come visit me I will take you here.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 12/07/2026

The 15yo hiked 15 miles through the Sierras in Dunk Lows. Oh to be young!

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 09/07/2026

Right before the goal this was the facts on the ground

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 04/07/2026

Morocco had virtually the same Expected Goals at the opening whistle

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 03/07/2026

Been offline in the Sierras

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/06/2026

I think they made a movie about this

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/06/2026

lmao I feel like this now about Pierzynski and the Pope

ddlovato
GET A JOB
ddlovato
STAY AWAY FROM HER

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/06/2026

honestly a bit surprised I wasn’t higher on the Luddite scale

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/06/2026

New York primary voters looking for the leftist candidates

A man praying saying “JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.”

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 21/06/2026

I keep imagining the real Teddy Roosevelt as John Alexander’s charming turn in Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace as the delusional nephew who thinks he’s Roosevelt