Hal Espen

@halsf.bsky.social

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Formerly at The New Yorker and Outside, currently in Santa Fe, presently in Seattle and environs. Now listening to on vinyl.

Bruce McCall illustration of WWII British newspaper seller with the headline, "Temper, Temper, Mr Hitler" as German bombers fly over a destroyed cityscape.
Portland frog hope poster + Timothy Snyder quotation
Cover of the Neil Young album Freedom
Edvard Munch's The Scream
Hitler 2025 WARFIGHTER
Quotation from Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy Inc. on how the Hong Kong freedom movement was defeated.
Screenshot of Anne Applebaum listing non-violent, anti-authoritarian resistance tactics.
Stack of fiction books by Thomas Pynchon
Cybertruck on a Puget Sound ferry
Album cover of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly with the White House in the background.
Ricardo Caté cartoon in the Santa Fe New Mexican, Jan 27, 2025
2016 tweet expressing contemptuous apathy toward singer-songwriter Bob Dylan a month after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The classic Roz Chast cartoon, giving Dionysian Binky the final word.
Garcia / Lesh