D'angelo and piano

The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

“I do think people should think of the role of abattoirs more.” Joy Williams answers ten of our questions. buff.ly/eJEFmbU

On this day in 1999, Prince won the Yahoo Life Award for best online single and warned about the dangers of the internet.

So many favorites screening at MoMA Film When the World Broke Open Katrina/NOLA series, including the extraordinary TIME by Garrett Bradley. Here's my 2020 WSJ. Magazine interview w/her. wsj.com/arts-culture/f…

we all live in act 3 of eddington

“We didn’t feed the cats. Feeding the cats generated cat shit. We spray-painted neon circles around their shit and left it there. The only one who did was Safety Jen.” From “Skyhawks” by Bud Smith in our new Fall issue. buff.ly/t6ASe8q

Wrote about a perfect album stereogum.com/2323469/broadc…

a great piece on the great Jane Bowles by Nicole Flattery in Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025/1…

Heartbroken. Thank you, D'Angelo. youtube.com/watch?v=JAfuUZ…

Mostly this, above all: What feeds your soul after you leave it all out there on the stage? That's God. — D'Angelo It's the same when the stage is the page or the social scene or anything where you leave heart fragments like prayers

time-mastery right here

"Time is weird. Illusory, of course. It moves, like God, in mysterious ways. Maybe it is God." —Joy Williams, "One Four Two Five Old Sunset Trail," on the last days of Gene Hackman, in @harpers harpers.org/archive/2025/1…