James Hansen

Going to start posting random lists with no context, except the things on the list have no connection to one another. After doing this once a day for an entire year, I will publish it as a book of poetry. Not sure of start date. TBD.

@DanielGorman20 What about the haters tho

real Gray lovers never left!

@bnowalk "Lawless Leftist Enclaves." You mean "cities"?

a deep red state like Ohio

@GovernorVA Ignore the courts

More than three million Virginians cast their ballots in Virginia’s redistricting referendum, and the majority of Virginia voters voted to push back against a President who said he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress with a temporary and responsive referendum. They made their voices heard. I am disappointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling, but my focus as Governor will be on ensuring that all voters have the information necessary to make their voices heard this November in the midterm elections because in those elections we — the voters — will have the final say.

@filipefurtado @PatrickODonne11 Definitely watched the full thing in my AP US History course. It had to have taken an entire month of class.

@PatrickODonne11 I can imagine history teachers punishing students with it despite the length.

Falando do Ted Turner lembrei deste filme de guerra civil americana que ele produziu e toda locadora dos anos 90 tinha. 4 horas que pareciam 10. Deve ser o filme mais para homem obcecado pelas minucias dessa guerra já feito. Um tipo que não existe aqui, mas o VHS duplo estava lá.

@alexcfields Yes! Love these.

I’ve found these lecture recordings from Jay Bernstein on Kant and Hegel more useful than any single commentary or monograph on those texts, and infinitely better than anything you’ll find on podcast or YouTube

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

@Djoko_UTD No one paid $500 bc prices in Europe are regulated

Imagine paying $500 and getting a first row seat and you watch this… Literally the Second worst Tennis style 🤦

@sm_osment lol

Ben Lerner Stuns as Greatest Living Songwriter

@matthiasellis A drink in LA next time I get there! :) So happy for you.

@matthiasellis So great and so well deserved.

This movie needs to win an Oscar. Screenplay the target. How do we make it happen?

@SatireRedacted Good idea.

I think an interesting self-imposed reading restriction would be to only read women writers for an entire year. For instance, I’ve never read Colette, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Rachel Cusk, or Octavia Butler.

@DanielGorman20 Except you didn't say LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871), which is, objectively, the correct answer.

@misterminsoo Why do I bother

“7 Essential Avant-Garde Films” 🫩🫩🫩

@circles2waves @bartlebytaco " 'The writer... [enables] us to...enjoy our own daydreams without self-reproach or shame.' (SF) Thus for Freud, it is an aesthetic pleasure that the three psychic agencies are reconciled: each agency finds satisfaction in aesthetic pleasure..." -Sarah Kofman, Freud and Fiction

@bartlebytaco thanks!

I think a lot of you are exposing the absolute silliness of novels, or novel-writing, and nothing about writing (other than the fact that some of us apparently should either be doing it less or not writing about whatever this is)

For some reason I had John Lewis Gaddis's biography of George F. Kennan on my "Want to Read" list. Worth following through? Do you read biographies of figures you know next to nothing about?

@cwik_greg @LAReviewofBooks Would be cool if it were possible to buy this. Whoops.

For @LAReviewofBooks I wrote about William H. Gass's The Tunnel, one of the great American novels. I worked very hard on this. Thank you to Annie! lareviewofbooks.org/article/willia…

@matthiasellis (This is a yes btw :P )

@matthiasellis Curious!

@sm_osment @pourfairelevide Excited for this one

@pourfairelevide hottest best translator for one

the bookseller was like “can you please explain to me what the deal is with this one? it’s been flying off the shelves”