Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 12/10/2026www.bostonreview.net/articles/men...bostonreview.netMencken AgonistesMisrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustice. 020 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 08/10/2026www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...sacbee.comFamed writer William Vollmann is dying. Sacramento’s still a big part of his lifeWilliam T. Vollmann has spent roughly half his life in Sacramento. With a new book out Oct. 6, he discussed what the city means to him. 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 07/10/2026With the release of the Martin Mull documentary, which I anticipate greatly, it brings to mind a question. Why was Jessica Walter gleefully screaming “Gene!!” whenever Gene Parmesan revealed himself never any less funny no matter how many times you saw it? #martinmull #geneparmesan #GENE 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 30/09/2026lithub.com/thomas-mcgua...lithub.comThomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump EraAfter a decade of Donald Trump’s chaos and cruelty, we might ask how literary fiction is responding. Readers, for their part, flocked to journalistic and historical explainers in Trump 1.0, t… 010 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 28/09/2026lithub.com/william-t-vo...lithub.comWilliam T. Vollmann on Trying to Excavate American Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the War on TerrorA Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned harvest in another, the book bifurcated. The first part is, or means to be… 001 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Alana Haim is Darth Vader in a New Hope level of villain 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nigella is giving Keith Richards vibes, only less sober. #gbbo #greatbritishbakeoff 021 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The new season of GBBO is borderline unwatchable and I’ve yet to decide which side of the border is falls 000 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation 523708645 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't know why I would be surprised that the Scholastic Book Fair has gone through and enshitification, and maybe I'm not, just disappointed. lithub.com/have-they-ru...lithub.comHave They Ruined Our Beloved Scholastic Book Fair?Oh, Scholastic Book Fair. If you made your way through a public school in North America anytime during the past half-century, you should recall that shiny catalog. That sudden, circus-like presence… 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...tabletmag.comColtrane's Shadow - Tablet MagazineThe legendary ‘Tiberi Tapes’ reveal new sides of the master, even to his biggest fans 010 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396402562 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I really just want to say I've eaten at the Hardees in Mecca 3249510 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldPip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻 106198716644 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 01/09/2026www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comGoing Home with Wendell BerryThe writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America. 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 07/07/2026You know what’s weird? How I, and I’m sure many others, can tell who might be texting just by the rhythm of the notifications. I have one friend, it’s always 3-5 short bursts. I have another where it’s ALWAYS a single message and thus a single *ding*. It’s like birdsong or a part of evolution 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 11/02/2026A thought occurred to me, and it’s meant as the highest compliment from a place of love for both people: The closest thing we have to an analog or a successor to Catherine O’Hara is Kathryn Hahn 011 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldRoss Raihala (Alpha Male) 🌈 @rossraihala.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I went to my barber shop on the east side this afternoon. Yes, it's cold out, but it felt like a ghost town. Tons of closed businesses. My barber shop *looked* closed and they kept the door locked. The market across the street still had a Christmas tree in the window. 182 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/01/2026As the year begins, don’t look away from the headlines, look better and deeper | Justine Tohtheguardian.comAs the year begins, don’t look away from the headlines, look better and deeper | Justine TohIt’s important to cultivate a fresh way of seeing – one that isn’t blind to harsh realities but refuses to be cowed by them 34613 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 05/01/2026This is a well reasoned critique open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...open.substack.comHow The New Yorker Became IrrelevantOn the decline of America's premier magazine. 010 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 03/01/2026At some point you start to believe this is intentional dereliction of duty. Collusion and not cowardice. Or does it matter? 2916635 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 24/12/2025yalereview.org/article/bilg...yalereview.orgBilge Ebiri: “Why Terrence Malick Is the Most Influential Director”Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema. 010 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979? 1156087905 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Hot take: Sleepless in Seattle is a movie about a stalker 000 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating. 97153022415 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Sorry for the vagueness but if you saw the same news alert I just did, we could be getting some very sad celebrity death news shortly 000 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldDan Izzo @izzos.net · 12/12/2025We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary: 159102672318 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 11/12/2025The section on the Holmes fight will break your heart 010 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Obituary of the day www.latimes.com/world-nation...latimes.comD-Day veteran Charles Shay, who saved lives on Omaha Beach, dies at 101 in FranceDecorated Native American veteran Charles Shay died at his home in Bretteville-L'Orgueilleuse in France's Normandy region, his longtime friend and carer Marie-Pascale Legrand said. 010 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do. 429116843210 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Obituary of the Day: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...nytimes.comJohn Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Damn, the Jeff Buckley documentary is very, very good 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 06/12/2025All I’m saying is that I never saw David Rivers and Nipsy Russell in the same room. 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Tonight I am recommending “Carol and Joy” on @criterion.bsky.social 000 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldPru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits. 207109163201 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 02/12/2025#Booktok but it’s just visits to dusty, disorganized, vaguely communist, used bookstores with leaky roofs, in a bad part of town, shelves collapsing on one another, run by a crabby former hippy eating soup at the cash register. 000 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The Max Brosmer go backwards 15 yards, blindly throw underhanded, interception, 80 yard return for a touchdown is among the single worst plays in Vikings franchise history, and the team once had a guy run the wrong way for a touchdown 010 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldTom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Vintage Stoppard as performed by Oldman & Roth. Delightful stuff. youtu.be/u3xIs0aajN4?...youtu.beRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Playing Questions Scene (2/11) | MovieclipsYouTube video by Movieclips 413241 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Owamni restaurant in your former home of Minneapolis 000 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War. 935552892 0
Reposted by Tim ArnoldCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 25/11/2025i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years xkcd.comFifteen Years 7750131338 0
Tim Arnold @timothyarnold1973.bsky.social · 20/11/2025If I ever knew, I had forgotten what Mark Sanford looked like, so I went and read his Wikipedia. And I will say this, Olivia Nuzzi sure does have a type. 000 0
