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the great thing about poetry. is you can write it drunk

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Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.

—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)

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me double checking that the ask i’m sending isn’t going to contain my ip address and a photo of my own ass that i never took

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beautiful questions from Deep listening by Pauline Oliveros

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do not raise a foul word against tofu in my presence

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Catholic church doesnt even allow divorce if domestic violence is involved and vatican city wouldnt exist nowadays without the help of Benito fucking Mussolini and yet theres always some motherfucker being like i hope the next pope is pro gay marriage. I hope I get a house from Santa Claus this year. I hope a horse is going to buy me cheese in the grocery store

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Jenny Holzer.

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☀️ July '25 Outlaw Double Feature ☀️

In this double feature we are exploring Hollywood as dream and as nightmare — and the identities and realities constructed within it — through the films Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder and what could be called its spiritual successor, Mulholland Drive (2001) dir. David Lynch.

While this stream is free to attend, I would appreciate if you "buy a ticket" by donating within your abilities to The Sameer Project's medical care fundraiser for Gaza.

Monday July 28th - 4PM EST - Discord

3:30 PM - Pre-show playlist

4:00 PM - Sunset Boulevard

6:00 PM - Intermission / reading Lynch's "10 clues to unlock Mulholland Drive"

6:30 PM - Mulholland Drive

9:00 PM - Discussion in voice and/or text chat

doesthedogdie pages: SB / MD

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If you were a girl, I'd like you just as much. La Triche (1984) — dir. Yannick Bellon

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it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

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Everything Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is absolute bullshit, and everything that Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is 100% true. It’s a travelogue fantasy. It’s proto-science fiction. It’s cosmic horror. It’s shockingly original and it’s shamelessly plagiaristic. It’s a misotheistic Christian parable in which the whale is the mask of a cruel, uncaring God and Ahab is Satan himself, not as trickster or as tempter, but as doomed hero. It’s the most gripping thing you’ll ever read. It’s boring as shit. But above all else – and I cannot emphasise this enough – it is filled with Facts About Whales.

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RIP Richard Serra. You made so many people so so so mad

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I love you chickpeas

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You're worse than me. You're not human. You're biblical. The Phoenician Scheme (2025) dir. Wes Anderson

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