Sign in

Peter Blair

@peterblair.bsky.social
310 followers 177 following 885 posts

Here because of addict behavior

PostsRepliesMedia
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Awareness of the multiplicity of human ways is also the necessary precondition for the active search for the better or best way...God's multiplication of languages and his dispersal of the nations [institutes] otherness and opposition." Leon Kass on the Tower of Babel
000
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Celebrated the official last day of the summer (the last day of the John's Water Ice season)
020
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"O God, who manifest your almighty power above all by pardoning and showing mercy, bestow, we pray, your grace abundantly upon us and make those hastening to attain your promises heirs to the treasures of heaven." Collect for the 26th Sunday in ordinary time
020
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thomas Dollbaum @ Silk City
100
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Against our ever-present natural temptation to care only for ourselves and for our own and to deprecate or ignore the value of the stranger...the Noahide law teaches that, at least with respect to life itself, every human being has a claim and a standing equal to our own"
110
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The story of the Flood seeks to wash away the heroic temptation in the reader. It seeks permanently to drown the natural human aspiration to apotheosis through heroic deed and to replace it with an acquired human commitment to righteousness and the perpetuation of life on earth"
100
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"There is more than half a century...during which all nine generations of human beings, from Adam to Lamech, are alive at the same time...[the genealogy] prepare[s] the wisdom-seeking reader to learn, in the sequel, how human beings react to the discovery of their unavoidable finitude"
100
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The Biblical rejection of polytheism, in part, means the Biblical rejection of apotheosis" -Robert Sacks, quoted in Leon Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom
000
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Herding probably preceded farming...the farmer is the innovator, the man who takes the ambiguous step forward (or is it backward?). But our text invites us to consider the shepherd as the innovator by making him second born, one who did not follow in his brother's vocational footsteps."
150
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"If the needle is the first tool, clothing is the first product, and hiding is the first goal of art" -Leon Kass, The Beginning Wisdom: Reading Genesis
040
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good afternoon open.spotify.com/album/2etu1n...
open.spotify.com
Every Star in Rockingham County - Album by Dogwood Tales | Spotify
Dogwood Tales · album · 2026 · 12 songs
000
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some brief eulogistic reflections on Wendell Berry, who celebrated virtues and loves that are for everyone, regardless of their form of life: peterblair.substack.com/p/wendell-be...
peterblair.substack.com
Wendell Berry, That Thoughtful Man
Rest in Peace
052
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I came upon Berry's work in college out of what felt like some niche political philosophy interests and it was a pleasure in recent years to see his name turn up in (for me) new places: Guy Davenport quoting him in The Hunter Gracchus, his friendship with J. Kenyon and D. Hall
030
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Man
160
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP open.spotify.com/track/22GKOo...
open.spotify.com
After the Gold Rush - 2015 Remaster
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris · Trio II (2016 Remaster) · Song · 1999
140
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I liked "Tony" as a mediation on the value of being someone rather than anyone—acquiring a context, discarding one's idea of oneself to become a specific person letterboxd.com/peterblair/f...
letterboxd.com
A ★★★★ review of Tony (2026)
(PFS—Bourse) I enjoyed this because it didn't seem as freighted with the weight of the "biopic as a genre" as other ones I've seen recently (A Complete Unknown and Deliver me From Nowhere). It just fe...
030
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Happy Wild Pink release day to all who celebrate open.spotify.com/album/6wN3op...
open.spotify.com
Still Coming Down - Album by Wild Pink | Spotify
Wild Pink · album · 2026 · 9 songs
021
Reposted by Peter Blair
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
He wished it were already fall, season of wisdom and work. —John Crowley, The Solitudes
0123
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Scripture wishes to emphasize that the sanctity of the Sabbath is older than Israel, and rests upon all mankind” -Umberto Cassuto, quoted in Leon Kass’s The Beginning of Wisdom
040
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I've only dipped into the new Phoebe Bridgers album so far, but digging "Haunted"
100
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Because he is the free being, he is also the incomplete or indeterminate being: what he becomes depends always (in part) on what he freely will choose to be…precisely in the sense that man is in the image of God, man is not good—not determinate, finished, complete, or perfect”
120
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Never get tired of this stretch of the SRT
080
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“[In Genesis] the fundamental principle through which the world is created is separation” (Leon Kass); “Yahweh gave [Abraham] just four commands…each time something had to be separated from something else” (Roberto Calasso)
020
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“The open form of [Genesis] and its recalcitrance to final and indubitable interpretation are absolutely perfect instruments for cultivating the openness, thoughtfulness, and modesty about one’s own understanding that is the hallmark of the pursuit of wisdom” -Leon Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom
020
Reposted by Peter Blair
Dr. Stephen Poop @drstephenpoop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
beasted on. What a fucking idiot.
14712
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Road trip views (Crossing the Delaware in Riegelsville, PA; hiking Mount Tammany in Knowlton Township, NJ, happening upon Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA; attending Mass at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, PA)
1100
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I went to Dad’s Change of Pace in Port Jervis, NY and everyone knew you
140
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Everything took longer than it should, or else went too quick..it was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
050
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
As far as I’m now concerned this is the only Lynch movie
270
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The best adaptation of The Odyssey is Tim Riggins' story in seasons 4 and 5 of Friday Night Lights
020
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A significant percentage of the time I tell people in social setting that I'm reading Lonesome Dove one of the people I'm talking with has just read it or is planning to read it soon. It's the summer of Lonesome Dove
140
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Sometimes Po Campo sang in Spanish…‘You do sing sad, for a happy man,’ Pea Eye observed once, as the old man shook his gourd. ‘I don’t sing about myself,’ Campo said. ‘I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don’t belong to me.’” -McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
130
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oh, so now we can get featured in the NYT merely for owning too many books? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
nytimes.com
Too Many Books?
050
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“It was strange to him that such a failure could seem so terrible, and yet it did…the thought of Maggie would sting his mind as sweat stings a cut” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
010
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable. And we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall" (Yes, I just watched the Friday Night Lights pilot again)
000
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Happy 250th (one song per state where the name of the state or a place in the state is in the title) open.spotify.com/playlist/5x5...
open.spotify.com
The American Sublime
Playlist · Peter Blair · 50 items
120
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“‘Yes, that’s your problem,’ he said. ‘You don’t like buttermilk, or nothing else. You’re like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You’re shrunk up from not wanting nothing.” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
010
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New books
050
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“‘The thing about men that don’t talk much is that they don’t usually learn much, either,’ Louisa said.” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
010
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“She had…a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
010
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“There were nights when he lay on the porch too sleepy to shave his corn, or even to worry about the problem, when the widow Cole would pop to the surface of his consciousness like a turtle on the surface of a pond” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
000
Reposted by Peter Blair
Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
i'll be releasing a new album, The Autumn Tape, in september. it's a fragmentary exploration of tape aesthetics drawing on jangle pop, K records, 70s psych folk, and other stuff. give the first single a listen over here: harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...
harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com
The Autumn Tape, by Harrison Lemke
14 track album
55420
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Cover of the summer open.spotify.com/track/06L4a5...
open.spotify.com
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Johnny Blue Skies · Mutiny After Midnight (Extended Edition) · Song · 2026
000
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
But underneath all his other hopes was the oldest yearning he had, one that could lie covered over for months and years and still be fresh as a toothache” -Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
061
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"For most of the hours of the day -- and most of the months of the year -- the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and stinging lizards, but a hell for pigs and Tennesseans" -Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
020
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative
030
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Thus, intelligence, when absolutized, overshadows other essential dimensions of life, such as affection, the will, commitment and relationships.” A Midgley-ian point in “Magnifica Humanitas,” as are the reflections on limits (118ff) and realism (204ff).
100
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"The ancient Hebrew narrator displays his omniscience with a drastic selectivity...he leads us through varying darknesses which are lit up by intense but narrow beams, phantasmal glimmerings, sudden strobic flashes...there is, in other words, an abiding mystery in character [in the Bible]
110
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Good things can happen share.inquirer.com/8jDkQN
share.inquirer.com
Bookhaven in Fairmount to reopen under new ownership
The beloved Fairmount bookstore that operated for nearly 40 years, Bookhaven, will reopen under new ownership.
120
Peter Blair @peterblair.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“The human figures in the large biblical landscape act as free agents out of the impulses of a memorable and often fiercely assertive individuality, but the actions they perform all ultimately fall into the symmetries and recurrences of God’s comprehensive design”
120