Chris Noto

@chrisnoto.bsky.social

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Reader, music lover, sailor, gardener, husband, father, grandfather. He/him.

A gray sky behind green leaves deciduous trees. A small shed in front of the trees, painted rust red, with medium gray trim.
White text on a black background, “eno gen_5.12 2026_august criterion_channel
This is a photo of the screen while playing the ENO movie, it includes the code “2026–07, criterion channel” and the controls to start stop and fast forward and rewind the video.
A brown cotton tail rabbit sits up, head held high, surrounded by lush, but short clipped bright green grass.
A black and white cat in the foreground, slightly out of focus, mouth agape, eyes very wide open, with the words, "IT'S... ...BEAUTIFUL," framing the cat, top and bottom, and another b/w cat in the background, reclining on top of a desk shelf, calmly observing.
A white LP cover, with the words “MIROSLAV VITOUS INFINITE SEARCH” at the top, and a black and white photo centered under it, showing a man’s left eye, the side of his head, mostly in shadow, and moderately long, dark hair, in loose curls.
A children’s story, The Magic Porridge Pot. Illustrated by Andy Warhol.
The cover of a children’s book from the late 1950s, titled “BEST IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS,” over an illustration of a white, winged horse, being ridden through a blue, white, and golden sky, by a boy wearing sandals, a short crimson and golden kilt, and brandishing a golden sword.
A yellowing box and bottle with bold, all-caps lettering “ENO.” Above smaller black lettering, REFRESHING RELIEF FROM STOMACH UPSETS.”
MetaFilter An oblique yet certain line February 18, 2026 12:18 AM Pynchon’s clear doubts about whether America can overcome its attraction to fascism are bearing unwanted fruit in 2025. The doubts have been proven right. Pynchon’s view of the American right is plainly and perversely stated in Shadow Ticket when one character says to another, of youth described as “Hitlerboys” in a changing Hamburg, “I want to believe they’re only being obnoxious but I think it’s worse than that.” The response is curt: “It’s worse.” from Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming [Current Affairs; ungated]
A man wearing a white, fiber, 3M Aura N95 mask, to reduce the risk of viral infections.
In a cartoon style image, with a bright yellow background, a man in a blue suit with a white shirt and a green tie is holding a small weasel to his face as it tears a bloody streak of flesh from one cheek.
Winter, near sunset. A small, shrubby tree, the lower part in shade, silver and grey. The upper part outlined in golden light. Two thirds of it backgrounded by deep green, almost black, conifers, while the top stretches up into the pale blue sky.
A damp mossy bank is at the front, barely rising above the little creek behind it. Fallen maple seeds are center-left, red tipped, shading to yellow-green at their bases. The bright red starburst of another seed head is just to the right, and then the green moss gives way to bare sand and gravel.
A wood-grain surround, center-top text, "Bread & Roses 1978 Joni Mitchell Herbie Hancock" and center-lower, a photo of Joni in a golden yellow dress, standing at a microphone, next to Herbie Hancock, seated at a black grand piano, wearing a light gray sportscoat and black open neck dress shirt with amazingly long collar points splayed almost to the ends of his shoulders. Ah, the 1970s!
JSJ, INC. Presents GET BACK and MORE (an LP of bootleg Beatles music and voice from the "Get Back" sessions)
A sliver of dark, reflective water lies at the bottom of the photo, a similarly slim line of grassy bank above its upper left two thirds, with small, bushy trees on the right, and, farther back and to the left, again, an uneven row of taller, darker green, oaks. Above all of that, a distant line of bright white cotton puff clouds appears behind the oaks, then a bright blue band of sky, with a scattering of smaller, closer, and somewhat thinner clouds.
A photo, looking to the east in late morning light, of a tree lined pond, a blue sky reflected in the water, along with the overhanging branches of oak trees breaking the view of the sky.
Yellow-orange cartoon dad Homer Simpson is drooling while standing in front of a blue sky with puffy white clouds.
A translucent golden yellow vinyl LP record spins on a black turntable. The white print on the black label reads "DAVE PELL PLAYS ARTIE SHAW'S BIG BAND SOUNDS."
A pop-art album cover: A stylized turquoise scroll announces the album name, "Emperor Tomato Ketchup," over a yellow background overlaid by thin brown stripes, with a bronze spiral of increasing radius spinning up from the center of the lower quarter of the image, an pale orange half-sunburst radiating to the lower borders of the image, with the band name in a super-abstract multi-layered font at the bottom.
A star shaped bright scarlet wildflower with long, dark green leaves on the stem below it with the reflection of white clouds and a green tree line behind it.
Pepe Le Pew, a cartoon skunk, is twirling on green cartoon grass, with cartoon trees and a French cartoon village in the background. "LE SIGH. LE BOOHOO." is the caption.
A solitary white cotton puff cloud floats serenely in a blue, blue sky.
Album cover for "Screen Ceremonies" by David Toop. A man who seems to be in pain in the foreground, wincing. A poster of a woman with her shirt pulled up over her breasts is on a brick wall behind him and to his left, with cryptic text underneath it. Black shadows of people stand out against a red glowing haze, center, farther back, and, behind that, a nighttime city skyline, under a black sky and a full moon.
High, thin clouds, like a lace veil spread by the wind, glowing as the sun, near white down toward the horizon, shading to a deep pink at the zenith, with a dark green fringe of evergreen foliage at the bottom and the right edge.
The yellow-orange-red glow of a mid-winter dawn streams into a suburban Georgia strip of mixed oak and pine woods, highlighting tree trunks and the last dry leaves still hanging on the branches.
Puffy winter clouds, with white highlights and darker gray shadows, fill most of a bright blue, early evening sky, framed on the bottom and right side by a fringe of silhouetted trees.
On the left side of the frame, taking up about 15% of the frame, the edge of a green office wall with a light switch on it. The rest of the frame is filled with a window, covered by partially open narrow Venetian blinds, with shrubs in dappled shade visible behind them.
Black text on a white background: Is Mahler related to Beyoncé? It turns out they're cousins four times removed. The NYT's Norman Lebrecht explains in his new book the connection goes deep, "Beyonce has presence, energy and concentration in what she does, much like Mahler...and (he) would have liked her.”
The top of a tree with no leaves, set against a bright blue sky, shimmers with the red-orange light of dawn. Behind it, a rainbow arcs upward, while, just to the left, another tree looks black, as it is still below the horizon of the dawn.
Six small red roses in a white porcelain vase, In front of a red-brown wall, with a bit of white trim on the right, and the lower right corner of a framed silkscreen print from the 1950s, that shows a tropical lily flower.
Golden light streams through the lace curtain that covers a tall south window, into a dark room, which seems, except for the narrow table right in front of the window, to be untouched by the light.
Puffy winter clouds, dark at the bottom, glowing white at their tops, with a rich blue sky behind them and a few tree tops at the bottom of the frame.
A sky, almost all gray clouds. Bare branches reach out from the lower right corner, toward an opening, like an eye, through which we get a glimpse of the blue above.
Bands of high, thin clouds stream down from the upper corners of the image, white at the top turning more and more yellow and gray and narrowing dramatically as they reach the horizon, where they are bracketed on either side by tiny dark bits of tree tops.
Snow hangs on foliage in the background as a bundled up dad pushes a child, who is sitting on a flat sheet of cardboard, down a slope, with the air around them and between them and the camera full of white falling snow.
One stem of a Forsythia, slender, square in cross section, gleaming, golden in the low sunlight of the early winter afternoon. The stem enters the frame at the bottom right, and stretches up and to the left. There is a group of three buds, each swelling with green and then tightening to a point, at a node a third of the way up, and two more almost at the top, the tip of the branch a blunt brown, and a golden brown haze of similar branches, out of focus, in the background.
A young boy in a red hat, with blonde hair, collar length on the sides and back, but cropped in bangs in front, alongside a toothy, grinning light brown bulldog, each of them wearing a royal blue bow around the neck.
A group of shrubs bearing small bright red oval leaves stands on a gentle slope that’s covered with brown leaves, all of it lit by dappled sunlight, filtered through the trees that hang far overhead.