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Category: Nothings

  • Summer of the Just

    June 1, 2026

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    Nothings

    There is a June when Corn is cutAnd Roses in the Seed—A Summer briefer than the firstBut tenderer indeed Read more

  • Over the Town

    May 23, 2026

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    Nothings

    I’ve just watched Daniel Schmid’s La Paloma which has almost immediately joined the ranks of my personal canon. Read more

  • Spaztic Intensity

    May 22, 2026

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    Hardcore History

    COLLEGE PORK. Read more

  • Hollow Core

    May 19, 2026

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    Nothings

    Demna’s most recent time-wasting scheme involved shutting down Times Square last Saturday night so its 250,000 idle tourists could be replaced by 63 idle models draped in meaningless, lazily conceived designs. Read more

  • Divination and Volition

    May 18, 2026

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    Nothings

    I got back to San Diego late last night, parked the rental car at Enterprise and threw the keys in the dropbox. The drive wasn’t bad, though I probably didn’t need to stop at both Pea Soup Andersen’s and Bravo Farms. Maybe it’s simply because I grew up in one, but I can never turn… Read more

  • Calves

    May 10, 2026

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    Nothings

    There’s more to a mother than the kitchen at night with everything put back and the oven light on. There is, for example, her big leather purse. The sadness of her birthdays. Her cursive singing voice. The way her dry white calves eventually became your own. Simone Harris And happy 77th birthday to Miuccia Prada,… Read more

  • The Fourth Dimension

    May 7, 2026

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    Nothings

    All this, and still more the treasures which had come to the church from personages who to me were almost legendary figures (such as the golden cross wrought, it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert, and the tomb of the sons of Louis the Germanic in porphyry and enamelled copper) because of… Read more

  • Three Fragments Overheard in Tucson, AZ

    May 2, 2026

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    Nothings

    Scene: a Tiki Bar. Read more

  • This Staggering May Day

    May 1, 2026

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    Nothings

    In fact, I’m improving.This staggering May Day—Lacking your presenceA solid week—I nonetheless hearYour telephone voiceIn a luxury of trust,A swell of thanksMy memory bearsNo precedent for.Further, I seemNear sane in the mirrorsI’ve passed since dawn. Read more

  • White Telephone

    April 21, 2026

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    Nothings

    The day Rome was founded, April 21, but April 21, 1937. And so it was movies and Rome and babies and Mussolini and Papa the great industrialist, all together for a photograph. Read more

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“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.”

Don DeLillo

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