Out today.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739950/b…

Looking forward to this

So the Harlem Renaissance show at the Met is SO GOOD, among other things it had this Jacob Lawrence painting I have never seen before and absolutely love!

'After forcing the nation's educators to teach to national tests for three decades, academics are shocked and surprised by a decline in the quality of education.'

Fixed it for you.

I use online or automatic payment for a lot of utility bills, and am struck by the particular aesthetic they all share. This is the good life, minimal aesthetic and a hot beverage.

Join us Thursday 5/16 at 10am PDT for Money Has No Value with Samuel Chambers, Beverley Best, Patrick Murray and Chris Nealon!

buff.ly/3JZDAv2

Best Boy Bento

Blue Thunder was released on this day in 1983. The film was a critique of the police state, but it was reborn as a copaganda tv show. I wrote about that general trajectory in popular culture.
unemployednegativity.com/2022/03/operat…

As Ani DiFranco says ' every tool is a weapon -
if you hold it right.'

Revised and reposted now that people have actually seen it. My review of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
unemployednegativity.com/2024/05/2-apes…

I have seen a lot of great photos of the Northern Lights, but the best is this one Bridgton Twin Drive-In posted of the lights over a screening of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Happy Twilight Zone day
unemployednegativity.com/2019/03/the-de…

This week's mail.

The Double Shift spotted in the wild (Or, alphabetization makes strange bedfellows)

This is for like three people

Barry Blitt for the win on the state of American higher education right now

I wrote a review of the latest Planet of the Apes film.
unemployednegativity.com/2024/05/2-apes…

The video of today's session on Nick Nesbitt's book and related matters is up on Youtube.
youtube.com/live/SgKyFK8C_…