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Ni mes avis, ni ceux d’autrui

Craig Finn speech bubble for quoted post
Alto sax next to waterproof messenger bag
Page 91 of John Hollander, Vision and Resonance in the archive.org viewer
Page showing several of LaMonte Young’s Compositions 1969, including #10: “draw à straight line and follow it”
Seiichi Kito, the founder of Fugetsu-do of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, also claims to have invented the cookie. Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from Omikuji (fortune slip) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, before spreading.[9]
Reading rates might fluctuate, but optimists argue that the long arc of history points toward universal literacy. Martin Puchner, a comparative-literature professor at Harvard, studies how literature has shaped history. He’s spent decades tracing how communication technologies have changed, and the panics those changes have triggered. For much of his career, he was skeptical of fears about the end of reading. “If the long history of changes in writing technologies has taught me anything, I think it’s that one should always resist the kind of doomsday scenarios,” he told me. And yet, even Puchner now believes that the doomsday scenario has arrived: A return to text, away from video, seems awfully unlikely.
Gram Parsons at Burrito King at Sunset and Alvarado
Penny
Cassie Berman and David Berman of Silver Jews in 2008. Not sure where. When this tour kicked off in Charlottesville in 2007, Berman was stage-shy and hiding behind a music stand. Cassie did all the banter. Here he seems more relaxed, and they both look like they are having fun.
Gallery of 15 IWW stickerettes (aka silent agitators) from the 1910s.
1910s IWW anti-wat sticker that reads: “Why be a soldier? Be a man. Join the I.W.W. and fight on the job for yourself and your class.
Pepe the king prawn muppet giving 4 thumbs up
Brad Lander 65.8% Dan Goldman (incumbent) 34%
Keith Haring poster (ignorance = fear / silence = death” with ACTUP’s pink triangle), mounted on a temporary wall with an end-to-end mural photo showing an ACT UP die-in, as installed for Keith Haring 3D at Crystal Bridges in NW AR, summer 2026
Diptych portrait of Jefferson and Hemings at Crystal Bridges
Sign for a thrift store called “Y’allternative”
Mario Olmos, Democrat Founder of the Your Voice Matters organization, Olmos’s platform solely focuses on ending sexual abuse of children. Through his organization, he aims to bring awareness to juvenile sexual abuse through an “education first” approach. Other key issues in his platform include providing access to higher education and uplifting the district’s senior community.
David Ramirez, “No Splash” is the best Hockney pool painting
Beinecke exterior
Tristesse Alfred de Musset J’ai perdu ma force et ma vie, Et mes amis et ma gaieté; J’ai perdu jusqu’à la fierté Qui faisait croire à mon génie. Quand j’ai connu la Vérité, J’ai cru que c’était une amie ; Quand je l’ai comprise et sentie, J’en étais déjà dégoûté. Et pourtant elle est éternelle, Et ceux qui se sont passés d’elle Ici-bas ont tout ignoré. Dieu parle, il faut qu’on lui réponde. Le seul bien qui me reste au monde Est d’avoir quelquefois pleuré.
Store front for ClawZone Park
Email sign up prompt from PRH that reads: “never miss a new book by Dante Alighieri”
Photo of an archival text with the enclosing folder shown so that the research can find/cite the items exact box/folder location at a later time.
Title wall of “Idea Score Process Object” at the Strother school of Radical Attention. Supplies (red bricks) for visitor manipulation in the foreground.
Craig Finn speech bubble
Table with supplies for making protest signs
Spread of contributor bios for Hošek and Parker book including Culler, de Man, Fineman, Fish, Frye, Hollander, Hošek, Jacobus, Jameson, Johnson, Nyquist. Hošek’s bio mentions a book called “The Rhetoric of Walt Whitman” (presumably with the particular leaning of rhetoric in poetry scholarship ca 1985).
Updated forecast for Sunday now predicting 17-21” of snow for Saint Paul. At the beginning of the day the forecast was 14-17”.
Forecast for St Paul this Sunday predicting 14-17” of snow. Yippee!
Two sleds at the top of a hill on what are likely the last remaining hours of winter recreation for the season.
Pre-ordered copy of Álvaro Enrigue, Now I Surrender, trans. Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead, 2026), with an unexpected “signed copy” sticker.
Text score for Social Project 3 by Jackson Mac Low. “Find a way to produce everything everybody needs and to get it to them. / Make it work.”
Drawing of Liam in what he was wearing in the photo before his abduction by ICE. Above and below there is a James Baldwin quote, “the children are always ours, every single one of them.”
Photo showing my copy of the Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed.
Irish setter in rare Arkansas snow, January 2026
Klobuchar’s 5 year old constituent, kidnapped by ICE while she continues to attend and post about white-only events outside the metro
Senator Amy Klobuchar’s constituent, five year old Liam, kidnapped by ICE, and sent to a detention camp in Texas, ALONE.
During World War II, the US military conducted significant research into spelling alphabets. Major F. D. Handy, directorate of Communications in the Army Air Force (and a member of the working committee of the Combined Communications Board), enlisted the help of Harvard University's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, asking them to determine the most successful word for each letter when using "military interphones in the intense noise encountered in modern warfare." He included lists from the US, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, British Army, AT&T, Western Union, RCA Communications, and that of the International Telecommunications Convention. According to a report on the subject:
Warning from USA jobs page that making false or fraudulent statements in your job application may be punishable by fine or imprisonment.
Content descriptions for 1942-43 Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Lab from M.H. Abrams papers at Cornell
Whose cat is this? Richard Move is impersonating Yvonne Rainer for the purposes of reenacting an interview that is excerpted in Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2001-2). Is that cat impersonating Rainer's cat?
Screenshot of “Whitman’s Lyrics?” 89-90
The Never Endlng Story: Artax sinks into the swamp of sadness
1st page of La Monte Young’s score for Integer Piece for Henry Flynt. A single chord on traditional staff notation plus extensive text instructions for dynamics, attack, articulation, silences, rhythm, tempo, # of repetitions, and how to format the integer in the (changeable) title for a specific performance.
Fig. 9.2 Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933). Score for #2—Proposition (October, 1962) (Make a Salad). From Alison Knowles, By Alison Knowles, A Great Bear Pamphlet (New York: Something Else Press, 1965), 2. Getty Research Institute, item 94-B22032. © Alison Knowles.
Postcard from Alison Knowles to George Maciunas with a clown stamp
Cover of Pierre Burton Klondike Fever
Van Halen 1984 tour logo featuring the “Mr. Little” mascot from Western Exterminator (LA pest control company).
Screenshot of Mark Cuban post with healthy engagement, refuting his claim “mention healthcare [on bsky] = crickets”
Leonard Leo smoking cigars with Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow.