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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thought I had bumped into Mac DeMarco, but it turns out it was just another guy in Bushwick with a mustache.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The performances by the cast members of the newest revival of “Death of a Salesman” are astonishing. If you have the opportunity to see this play on Broadway, please do so.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

While listening to the Clash earlier, was reminded that the first song that Armed Forces Radio played to open the Gulf War was “Rock the Casbah,” a tone-deaf choice of astonishing proportions. Anyhow, great song, and the best music video to feature an armadillo. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r...

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The Clash - Rock the Casbah (Official Video)

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Our cat is, rather improbably, 21 years old today. He’s getting all the treats and attention today.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you’re horrified by ICE’s actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere, now would be a good time to contact your senators. Tell them not to fund ICE and DHS (this measure already passed the House). If you don’t know who they are, use the following locator: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

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U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The new SpongeBob movie, while hardly pure cinema, is nonetheless big, dumb fun, with plenty of visual gags for the adults and, for some reason, features the Dead Kennedy’s “Holiday in Cambodia.” Perfect for the kids in your life and entertaining (enough) for the big kid in you, too.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Because a teacher’s work never ends—even during holiday breaks—I’m working on lesson plans while listening to Tangerine Dream and Panda Bear. (I’ll achieve a work-life balance when…I’m dead.)

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The term “essential” to describe records is overused, but it absolutely applies to Elliott Smith’s “Either/Or,” a standout in a deep, rich catalogue.

The cover of Elliott Smith’s “Either/Or” album, depicting the singer holding a cigarette.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My Favorite Records of 2025: 5. Haram - “Why Does Paradise Begin in Hell” 4. Scowl - “Are We All Angels” 3. Glare - “Sunset Funeral” 2. They Are Gutting a Body of Water - “LOTTO” 1. Bad Bunny - “Debi Tirar Más Fotos” Surprised that Bad Bunny made my #1 this year, but that record is undeniable.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It is astonishing that the New York Times, the “paper of record,” refuses to call this situation what it is: an episode of a bigot losing his mind during a *racist* tirade.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Drummers, especially of the rock variety, fall into two camps: those who play in service of the song; and those who play to be heard, to satisfy their own egos. John Bonham, while wildly inventive—using his kit like a melodic instrument—falls into the former group. m.youtube.com/watch?v=la-z...

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Nobody's Fault but Mine (Remaster)

YouTube video by Led Zeppelin - Topic

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Your Word of the Day is “vibratile,” adjective: (of cilia, flagella, or other small appendage) - capable of, or characterized by, oscillatory motion. As read in Vincenzo Latronico’s “Perfection” (New York Review Books).

Image of the cover of Vincenzo Latronico’s book, “Perfection.”

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Folks, it’s time we made a change. Can you chip in $5 to my campaign today? The future of postmodern American poetry is in your hands. dannyrivera.co

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Spent the last month fostering the sweetest dog, a pitbull named Bonita Applebum, after the song by Tribe Called Quest. Today, her new parents traveled from Boston to pick her up, and she’s on her way to her new home. We’ll miss her personality, but are glad that she found her forever family.

Picture of a pitbull with a grey coat, wearing a blue t-shirt.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A poem by Hayden Carruth, “The Cardinal” (part of a longer poem), from a collection called SCRAMBLED EGGS & WHISKEY (Copper Canyon, 1996).

takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition. 💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē 💚$150 runner up www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New York! I’ll be reading with Emily Skillings and John Yau at Anton Kern Gallery in Manhattan next Friday, 9/26/25. Please RSVP at conaltura.us/blogs/news/a... Hope to see you there! CC: @finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What movie shall we watch in 35mm? (My pick is “They Live,” though I’d be fine with “Trolls 2.”)

Picture of the marquis at the Nitehawk movie theater, listing the names of three films to be shown in 35mm.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Anyhow, I’m thinking of the awful events that took place in New York, and elsewhere, 24 years ago today, of the victims whose lives were taken, and of a world—a certain version of it, anyway—that no longer exists.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Living in the United States requires accepting that a) no safe spaces exist (if they ever did); and b) one may be shot to death anywhere, at any place, for any reason.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Listening to Steve Gunn’s “Music for Writers” because it is exactly the kind of moody, meditative music I need to, you know, get some writing done. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Music For Writers - YouTube

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Jan Davidszoon de Heem, “Vase of Flowers,” oil on canvas, circa 1660.

An oil painting, on canvas, depicting a colorful vase of flowers.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Please respect my privacy as I am about to take a deep dive into this very, very important book. Thank you.

Cover of a book titled, “Cats Around the Zodiac,” which depicts a picture of a cat and some additional text.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Enjoying this poem by Ryan Habermeyer, part of a larger piece titled “Portrait of a Desert with Necronauts,” in the latest issue (Vol. 59, #3) of Denver Quarterly.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I’m hardly superstitious, but I’ve already seen two Cybertrucks (gross) within the last 30 minutes, which just seems like a bad sign for how the rest of my day will go.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If some men don’t read fiction it’s because they’re taught that reading is a waste of time, that it has no useful function—unlike, say, mowing the lawn or betting on MMA matches. Or, you know, reading is somehow a “feminine” endeavor to be avoided. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I’m day-drinking at a bar in Brooklyn. What book am I reading to indicate that I’m a card-carrying member of the intelligentsia? 1. Joan Didion - “The White Album” 2. Vladimir Nabokov - “Pale Fire” 3. Thomas Pynchon - “The Crying of Lot 49” 4. Saul Bellow - “Herzog” 5. Philip K. Dick - “Ubik”

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Folks, thrilled to announce that I finally graduated from high school today. Looking forward to all the wonderful things in my future!

A picture of a middle-aged man, wearing a white shirt and clear-framed glasses, in a high school yearbook.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Listen, I hope that I’m wrong here, but it’s only a matter of time before Trum* and his bloodthirsty goons refer to the protests in LA as “an insurrection” (oh, the irony) and start firing on people who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Update from Tyler Pager

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Tear gas > flash-bang grenades > live rounds

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Takeshi Kitano’s “Violent Cop” is about, yes, a violent cop who stretches professional and ethical boundaries, but it’s also about the deep moral rot that runs through our most basic of institutions, eating away at society to the point where the line between “good” and “bad” is blurred.

Poster for the Japanese film “Violent Cop,” with text in Japanese, depicting a standing man wearing a suit.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

One of the best things about teaching Romeo + Juliet to teenagers is that they up understanding the story using their own terms: Student 1 (as Balthazar): “Shawty in a better hood now. 🕊️ 🙏 ✝️💀🪦” Student 2 (as Romeo): “Oh, word? I’m gonna hop in my whip and go find shawty, uno nunca sabe. 🐎 💔”

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Made myself chuckle at the thought of a Trum* presidential library. What would be in it? Dozens of copies of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”? Files related to various divorce proceedings? What other items would fill the shelves at such a place?

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The Human Condition, #27: So much wonderful music to discover and experience, but never enough time to enjoy it all.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is the funniest paragraph I’ve ever read in the Times (or anywhere else, frankly).

Text of a paragraph taken from an article in the New York Times.

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Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

“He was writing poems about bees, sex poems with pollen and stamens and pistils, bees sexing their flowers, sexing their queen, jelly and nectar and death in midair. He’d read them to me in his truck in the parking lot of the lake where we swam.” www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/f...

An Empty Heart Is One That Can Be Filled (Published 2014)

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The latest painting—how does he do it?—by Shawn Theodore: “Lil Bit with Collards,” mixed media, 30x40”. On display to the public starting tomorrow at Future Fair 2025, NYC. futurefairs.com

A mixed media piece by Shawn Theodore depicting a woman with gold earrings against a sea-blue background.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

When teachers realize that there are more than 30 days left in the school year.

The rapper Andre 3000 at the Met Gala, wearing a makeshift piano on his bag and holding what appears to be a trash bag.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through obedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." -Oscar Wilde, 1891.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“Just a little lovin’, early in the morning, beats a cup of coffee for starting off the day…” m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgW...

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Dusty in Memphis - Just a Little Lovin (audio only)

YouTube video by gferdinandus

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The only correct answer is James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans,” one of the single-worst books ever written, in any language, during any period of time, in any known universe. I will be taking no further questions on this matter.

Danny Rivera @snareshot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It is wonderful news that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released, but the stain of his incarceration will forever remain on this country, which continues to backslide into authoritarianism. Gift link below. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia Student Detained by Trump Administration, is Freed (Gift Article)

Mohsen Mahdawi had been an organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at the university. The Trump administration had tried and failed to deport him for it.