'Pamela Paul' get a real name Polly Pocket ass

Sinead O'Connor in a 1997 letter to Itamar Ben Gvir:
'God does not reward those who bring terror to the children of the world. SO YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN NOTHING BUT YOUR SOUL'S FAILURE.' middleeasteye.net/news/sinead-oc…

'Hospitals have become our homes.... It’s not easy to live here amid suffering, to work under continuous military attack, to wake up and close your eyes to the sight of...corpses. We need to gather our strength to bear it all. I don’t know where the strength comes from.'

Ah yes Columbia University, famously a school that calls the police when students commit crimes

Drake Motel it’s a good day for good covers x.com/daniel_m_laver…

“The children were theatrically unenthusiastic,” writes Drake Motel of the eclipse. “Maybe feeling some responsibility to the semiregular alignment of the spheres...is a lunacy peculiar to adults.” go.nybooks.com/3Q3HIhj

My first column is about the Silicon Valley geniuses who argue endlessly over abstract ideas of AI as redemption or annihilation, while in the real world the IDF uses it to facilitate mass killing in Gaza
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There's terrible lighting everywhere

Andrew Katzenstein, Willa Glickman, Daniel Drake (Drake Motel), and Lucy Jakub (@LucyJakub) on the total solar eclipse go.nybooks.com/440heDc

Andrew, Willa, Drake Motel, and I put ourselves in the path of big time sensuality for The New York Review of Books. Writing, driving, vibing in good company nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

I wrote about life, death, the village voice, and the doldrums of the media biz for The New York Review of Books

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Remembering this classic Pareene tweet from the 2011 NYC earthquake