Jonathan Adams

All my pieces for the @LAReviewofBooks Korea Blog: blog.lareviewofbooks.org/category/the-k…

@jrobertlennon PRAISE! AT LONG LAST!! Love, Sixmonth(+) supplicant Lunch Box RSS Feed Refresher No. 1

Yesterday, we at Barnacle Press had the privilege of being involved in solving one of the enduring mysteries of the funnies: the long sought-after and conjectured upon identity of the creator of Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye. ???(!), Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye March 5, 1905 1/19

Bill Evans, master of the ultra-slow ballad, plays “My Foolish Heart” (1964).

@colinmarshall Yes, the real question is what's happened in the last 70 years to the market for quirky, wizened savant private eyes with rich interior monologues?

We don’t ask for much: just enough money to buy the things we saw on TV growing up, earned at the jobs we saw on TV growing up.

@colinmarshall I used to be an anarchist till I got fed up with all their "rules."

Political views: hardcore libertarian who disdains competition in all its forms

@colinmarshall "Football is popular because stupidity is popular."

I hope this dude knows about Borges. I hope this dude knows about Borges. I hope this dude knows about Borges

For masochists in search of fresh pain, I'll be teaching a three-night course on travel, on stillness and on how to find sanity and even hope on February 16, 17 and 18, in the evenings (EST). If you’re interested, please look for details at the site of the Santa Fe Workshops.

@colinmarshall When a New York Fries appeared in Gangnam a few years ago and "poutine" was on the menu (before the current craze you're describing) that was how I (Canadian expat) lost my innocence re: the disturbing fact of New York Fries being a Canadian company.

@jwja You laugh, but poutine is catching on here. Maybe not Lotteria catching on, but catching on

Cyberpunk is when you're downloading Jean Eustache movies on Lotteria wi-fi

I just subscribed to Literambivalence jrobertlennon.substack.com/?utm_medium=we…

@colinmarshall Don't forget the winter convenience store staples of Asian Carp bread, floppy fishcake on a stick dipped in soup broth, and sweet potato baked to crispy perfection in an aquarium of hot pebbles.

The two kinds of meal I eat in Korea:

@colinmarshall I feel terribly seen right now.

Malcolm Gladwell once described his typical reader as "a 45-year-old guy with three kids who's an engineer at some company outside of Atlanta." Mine is a 35-year-old childless American essayist living in a major east Asian city.

Companies are suspending their Facebook advertisements. Here's why sumof.us/652709014t?ref…

Pledge to vote Green! greenparty.ca/en/pledge-to-v… via @canadiangreens

I've been thinking/reading a lot about Greta Thunberg and whiteness. I find her very moving, I believe she is genuine and I hope she can resist becoming a symbol for corporate greenwashing. Here is a thread of other young people to listen to as well.

A pattern emerges: Every morning, I resolve to be kinder to my fellow man; every night I remember I never liked my fellow man much anyway.

Schwarma gettin' warma! Get it now, before it's olda, gettin' colda.

Oneiric onanists, gnomic tomes.