alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Referring to the Harvard stop on the T as “a stop in Cambridge” 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Fantasy is a staple in Hollywood, and its Communists lived their fantasy at once more acutely and more comfortably than any group of their comrades anywhere else in America." Murray Kempton. Part of Our Time. 1955. 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't think there's anything cathartic about trump's voters turning on him after they voted for him three times. If anything, they're probably sure he isn't running again and they need a new object to focus their bottomless rage on 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026After a steady rise and peaks in 1976 and 2006, the word "irregardless" is cratering in public use. 110
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026These two albums are speaking to eachother this morning 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Dying dreams sometimes last longest in hearts they have broken; hate can be the strongest of memories. That may be why so much of whatever pain & passion is left to the myth of the 30s is carried by its lost lovers, its apostates, & its armed disenchanted.” Murray Kempton. Part of Our Time. 1955. 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Melville—after the initial roughness of his realism—reaches straight back into the universal, to a blackness and sadness so transcending our own that they are undistinguishable from glory" E. M. Forster. Aspects of the Novel. 1927. 100
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Private companies, even when they're dress up as places of higher learning, will flatten every trace of culture in favor of cheap and disposable kitsch. 001
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nor’easter day 3 music.apple.com/us/album/eve...music.apple.comEvery Fifth Sunday (feat. Erik Deutsch, Dave Devine, Shane Endsley, John Gunther & Dru Heller) by Greg Garrison on Apple MusicSong · 2025 · Duration 4:17 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just told cosmopolitan I’m not bothered by the criticisms swirling around me. Anxious to hear their response 👀 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This gawking bacanal over the western mass gay bar that the Globe kicked off reminds me of Murray Kempton's old saw: "Boston journalism has always been devout in enlarging the routine into the sensational." 120
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the facebook marketplace team must be a real black sheep at meta since they're the only ones at the company that do something of value 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it's worth considering that many have actually heard "Choosin’ Texas" and then forgot they did 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Interested to see how the new PBS nyc documentary covers the Atlantic Terminal Target opening 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I will say ever since I turned 35 I don't feel like I'm carrying myself like I'm eligible to be president 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026damn, I know Max Eastman turned away from the left but did he really have to give Buckley's "God and Man at Yale" a glowing review? 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this feels like a formalizing of Kitsch in the way the MoMA was for the Avant-garde. A sign of exhaustion of the form, a premature tombstone 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026James McNeill Whistler. Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville. 1865. 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define" E.M. Forster. Aspects of the Novel. 1927. 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Even though it was written 650 years ago, Ibn Khaldûn's Kitāb al-ʻIbar has never had a complete English translation. There are still many gaps in the world's discourse 😞 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Great, interrogative piece on Fiedler. I enjoyed his book well enough, but I rarely think about it. I found his essays to be flat and reactive, with a lot of bravura to cover cracks in their foundations. A fun but marginal thinker on American lit thebaffler.com/outbursts/it...thebaffler.comIt’s a Boy’s Boy’s Boy’s World | Zoë HuCan American fiction ever escape the high-low conundrum disparaged by scholar and critic Leslie Fiedler? 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ancient Persians called Macedonians “Yaunā Takabarā” which means “Greeks-with-large-hats” because of their love of the Kausia flat hat, seen below 100
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Am I making too much of this? Perhaps. But there are times when man and earth are one, when the pulse of living beats strong, when life is brimming with promise and the future stretches confidently ahead like that road to the hills. Well, I was young" J. L. Carr. A Month in the Country. 1980 100
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026On my second watch and Normal People is an ABOVE normal miniseries. Fav of the decade 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Many modern leaders were at first, failed artists. But is George W. Bush the first leader to turn to art only after his time in power? 001
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Clark is enlightening as ever here www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukT.J. Clark · Night Visitors: Miniaturised UniverseThe world exceeds us. It comes to us out of darkness. The cave is the universe, the nightly presence of that unknown... 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Following the 2001 Live account only for the Fellowship of the Ring premiere content 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Christopher Lasch really takes Robert Reich to the woodchipper in Revolt of the Elites (1994). Totally clear-eyed about the farce of being Labor Secretary for the Clinton Administration 100
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026woke up thinking about the verdigris green Fra Angelico uses in The Mocking of Christ 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Henry James's late phase is marked by a growing concern with beautiful objects and their provenance. Makes his last completed novel, "The Outcry" all the more poignant since it's about rich Americans looting England of its masterpieces. A confession of sorts 101
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Could Stravinsky ever just do a concert without some bullshit going on? 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026About halfway through Life of M and it’s enjoyable enough. A little lighter than I hoped for. There’s some interesting ideas about fame and rootlessness, but they’re too telegraphed. Overall it’s fine! The reviews pouncing on it to make broader rulings on autofiction feel overeager and sanctimonious 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026a new, powerful strategy by the Trump admin to turn around their sinking poll numbers has emerged 020
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I hope while he is working away at LBJ 5, Robert Caro understands that Dolly Parton was 10 years his junior 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026An administration whose only goal is to jingle different sets of keys to a nation of children 010
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine having the vision and the sense of glory to write about World War II like this, as it was happening Jacques Maritain. Democracy and Christianity. 1943. 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026even on George Harrison's best album there's an LP of filler 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I like that everyone who has tried to cover the song "Thirteen" has failed 000
alex @yourfavalex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Jacques Maritain. The Person and the Common Good. 1947. 000
