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a lot more ppl should know that NYPL’s 16mm collection is in the hands of people who actively want you to bring a group of friends in to watch a bunch of rare experimental films for fun! If you’re intimidated by it or think you have to be “researching” something, you don’t!

Happy 90th birthdays to Sophia Loren and Leonard Cohen, born one day apart, September 20-21, 1934.

Happy 90th birthdays to Sophia Loren and Leonard Cohen, born one day apart, September 20-21, 1934.

"I don't know when I will be back this way again. So I promise to give it my all." —Leonard Cohen, in concert, 2010. Leonard would have been 90 years old today.

The Aristocrats!

Visions of Johanna is at the heart of everything…

Google Search tells me that the best ramen in Hollywood can be found at these three places: • India’s Tandoori • Crown of India • Anarkali Indian Restaurant Can you say #enshittification?

Fredric Jameson has passed--what an unmatched American intellectual presence for the last 50 (at least) years. "Marxism and Form" is his best book, imho, but my favorite line of his comes from "Brecht and Method": "History puts its worst foot forward." Rest in Power, Fred.

RIP Fredric Jameson. His influence is incalculable. His work was transformative for me. There won’t be another like him

Fredric Jameson (1934-2024). Rest in Power. Sad for many reasons not least because he remained unceasingly and generously productive until the end, publishing three books this year alone and, until a recent accident, had been scheduled to teach this term at Duke. He changed how I

Goodbye to the mighty Fred Jameson. When I read him, have the rare sense of thinking with a critic who has truly seen & affirmed the premises of his own claims about history, culture, and power. Taking his seminar on Benjamin was one of the best things in my whole education. ❤️

Fredric Jameson taught me that the texts and ideas I fear are likely just folded over a few times and will yield to patient investigation; and that the pleasures of analysis reach far beyond the professional categories of "criticism" or "academia" RIP a true king

Jameson and a few fellow travelers kept Marxism alive in the American academy. He kept the faith through every failure, every defeat. Never despair, never surrender, never stop dreaming of a better world, because it really is always, everywhere, already struggling to be born.

Which is the way The New York Times.com headlines a story about a Republican gubernatorial candidate who calls himself a Black Nazi on porn sites; the repeated lie about immigrants eating pets in Ohio; that "the Jews" are to blame if Trump loses; bringing Lisa Loomer to a 9/11 memorial...

RIP Benny Golson (1929-2024) 📸 Art Kane “A Great Day in Harlem” outtake: Golson, Rollins, & Monk; August 12, 1958 #SonnyRollinsBridge

Rest in peace and power.

"What you idiots don't realize is that we're *all* in bed with our subjects either literally or metaphorically, and journalism's capture by money and power is both broader and deeper than you small-minded moralists imagine, you fools, you absolute dipshits." is quite a take.

Stopped by NYU police corner of 8th St. and University. "You don't have the generational wealth to be in this area." "I'm just trying to buy Nespresso pods for my kids." "You have to go around. There's a middle class entrance on Prince Street." Wow.

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel I was staring in my empty coffee cup —Warren Zevon, Desperados Under The Eaves. The Hollywood Hawaiian is no more. In its place: the Princess Grace Apartments, her HH door handles in mute testament to what was. I made a pilgrimage.