Strange Lights, Fires, Voices indecipherable. Curator, arts manager, and writer.
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2009
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‘Caligula’ Director Tinto Brass Dies at 93 indiewire.com/news/obituary/…
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was the original example of trying to explain something to an American by telling them to imagine a burger. In his own words, it didn’t work because they were too focused on the burgers
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i remember coming across the delightfully unhinged martin seymour-smith’s who’s who in 20th century literature a few years after reading LOTR and feeling embarrassed for both tolkien and myself after reading the entry. took me a bit to dig up but here you go:
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Another fav: “what is called intellectual is usually just something that demands the work and effort of listening, the force of attention and memory, actually love: in other words, emotion.” Adorno
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high school is funny because you’ll go home scratch your ass then play overwatch and your classmate will be living in a Dennis Cooper novel
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BOURDAIN: Once you’ve had acorn salad and damson cordial at Redwall Abbey you’ll never stop wanting to crush Cluny the Scourge with a bell.
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“My political engagement is a continuation of the writing. When I write, I feel a sense of responsibility, one that entails not cheating myself. It is about truth: the truth of form, the truth of the writing.” —Annie Ernaux, 2026
