Harlan's greatest fear was that after his passing his work and creative legacy would diminish and be forgotten. I think he'd be pleased to know that his GREATEST HITS are more popular than ever, already going through four printings with more to come.

Happy 90th birthday Mr. E.

.Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו how can you look into the mirror everyday? Killing civilians, Israelis or Palestinians is wrong….1 life is one too many…..but why you keep going on this path of destroying families and the future of an entire generation of Palestinians? And making Israel less safe?

The Case of Dashiell Hammett, a 1982 documentary by Stephen Talbot won
Peabody Awards & Mystery Writers of America vimeo.com/user112242350 (click on videos)

“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”

Happy birthday, the incomparable Dashiell Hammett ...
📸Paul Dorsey, 1937

Some of Leo’s neighbors send pics from his house today — he is back to flying this flag x.com/rollingstone/s…

Environmental activists are urging California to investigate the company behind Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water, arguing that the bottled water brand is harming wildlife habitat by extracting water from San Bernardino National Forest: latimes.com/environment/st… via Ian James

Thank you to those who sent me good wishes for my 80th. That's very meaningful. Very meaningful too are the comments from many about how my work has affected their lives. All I've ever done is grasp opportunities, have fun, & work hard---helped by others.

The question — in one of the great headlines of all time — was: “Can a 7-foot socialist vegetarian make it in the big leagues?”

The answer was “Yes!”

RIP Bill Walton 1952-2024

(And credit to Miles Kampf-Lassin for this great archival find.)

'He regularly highlighted the workings of white male privilege in press interviews.'

Bill Walton Was Once a Trailblazing Radical Dave Zirin The Nation thenation.com/article/societ…

I talked with Ailsa Chang at NPR's All Things Considered today on my 38-hour journey through California (sfgate.com/travel/article…).

npr.org/2024/05/27/nx-…

very NYC tweet but a lot of people missed that Cinema Village is the latest theater to unionize: vote was 6-0, as it’s a tiny place (10 people in the unit). others that have recently joined the UAW: Alamo, Film Forum, Anthology, Nitehawk Prospect Park, and Film at Lincoln Center

'Ellison's writing has the electric shock of a malfunctioning machine, words like sparks spraying out.' Greg Cwik on Harlan Ellison's new compilation of work, 'Greatest Hits.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/beamed…

When Janet Goldstein, my amazing 9th grade English teacher, gave me my first Harlan Ellison collection, neither of us could imagine the journey it would set me on.

I miss the fuck out of this guy.

Happy Birthday to Dashiell Hammett and Harlan Ellison, two of my writing idols. Harlan would have turned 90 today; Dash would have been a sprightly 130.

Commemorate #HarlanEllison 's #birthday with CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER, a full-cast #audiobook of his original teleplay that became the classic #StarTrek episode, with expanded introductory essay read by Harlan. Gift of Gab Scott Brick Stefan Rudnicki #scifi
skyboatmedia.com/city-edge-fore…

A truly magnificent review of and article about HARLAN ELLISON'S GREATEST HITS in the Los Angeles review of books.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/beamed…

This month, the headlines announced that TogetherSF was dropping a ballot measure that would strengthen the mayor.

But that's not really true.

Most all of the stuff from its abandoned ballot measure can be found in a 2nd ballot measure.

missionlocal.org/2024/05/togeth…

From @esksf

NEW: Facing nearly half a billion in legal judgements, Trump just sold a jet worth an estimated $10 million to a GOP megadonor who maxed out to his 2020 campaign. Me w/Noah Kirsch The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/trump-just-sol…

Good piece. There is a narrative that 'the left' is sinking Joe Biden. Yet most high-propensity 'left' voters will hold their nose and vote for him in November. Low propensity voters, however, are another matter: hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-left-is-…

In today’s Los Angeles Times: I ran down the last 32 coal plants still operating in the American West, and tried to figure out how they’ve avoided shutdown. Check it out: latimes.com/environment/ne…