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Debbie Harry and Robert Fripp, c1980

[photo by Chris Stein]

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Paul Bowles, December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999.

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The New York Dolls at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Washington, March 14, 1974.

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“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

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yuri shipping

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William Gaddis, December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998.

1968 photo by Santi Visalli.

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MJ Lenderman, She’s Leaving You

It falls apart We all got work to do

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Notes: I like this song and I like this video. Also, fwiw, I hate Eric Clapton.

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Shigeko Sasamori, who was severely burned at 13 when a nuclear bomb exploded over Japan and later, in the United States, championed peace and found comfort in helping others as a nurse’s aide, died on Dec. 15 at her home in Marina del Rey, Calif. She was 92.

Her death came two months after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grass-roots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Ms. Sasamori was one of the students assigned to clear the streets of Hiroshima of debris to make the city easier to evacuate if necessary. She heard a buzzing sound from the sky and told a classmate, “Look at the white thing falling from that airplane.”

Then, she recalled, she heard a “boom,” and she was knocked out by the bomb’s blast wave.

She had no idea how long she remained unconscious. But when she opened her eyes, darkness from the dust and smoke enveloped her. Desperate and fearful, she followed other bloodied survivors — some naked, some with their skin peeled away — to a makeshift shelter at an elementary school.

Once there, she cried for water and called out her name and address, hoping that someone would locate her parents. One-third of her body — her face, back, neck, chest, shoulders, arms and hands — was burned.

“I didn’t feel any pain — numb, just numb,” she said.

Her parents found her after several days and brought her home. Her head was badly swollen and disfigured. Her fingers were stuck together. Her mother treated her by soaking pieces of cloth in cooking oil and wiping pus from her body.

Ms. Sasamori recovered slowly, but she needed more treatment than reconstructive surgery in Japan could offer. In 1955, she was one of 25 young women disfigured by the bomb who were chosen to receive surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, as part of a mission arranged by Norman Cousins, the editor of Saturday Review magazine. His visit two years earlier to Japan, where he met Ms. Sasamori, had prompted him to help the bomb’s victims.

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Such a great song

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Guy Debord, December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994.

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“The reader’s challenge now is to look beyond the Big Five’s mediocrity machine. This is not easy, considering how many imprints the Big Five holds, but it is possible. Readers are not just static consumers. If we choose which writers we want to read, we can also choose which publishers we want to buy from—and can recognize that, at this moment in time, the Big Five and the small presses are driven by entirely different incentives. Literature, and literary fiction, is art, and art is unkillable. But literary culture can much more easily be destroyed. Today, the Big Five have the deepest pockets but lack the agility, chutzpah, and possibly even desire to act as guardians of high literature. Small presses such as Akashic, Two Dollar Radio, Short Flight/Long Drive and many others are filling that gap, notwithstanding their more limited budgets. In the end, it falls to readers to recognize what is happening and to seek out books from publishers that are genuinely interested in transcendent, creative work.”

— The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction

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Linskey, Winslet, Fox - c1995

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Absolute truth.

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what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

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tumblr is the only place that im honest, how do you tell your instagram followers that you just saw a bird that changed your life? they are soulless on that app, they dont give a fuck

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The 2024 Holidays at the White House: A Season of Peace and Light

Corny, sure, but probably won’t see anything like this during the holidays next year, so might as well enjoy it now.