Valarie Smith

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

This is what left the visible physical world at about 3pm yesterday. The two concrete spiral staircases were my favourite bit. Going to do a run of C-Type prints of this if anyone is interested. Not my best in terms of quality, but it’s does that thing it needs to do.

It is, today, not the 13th anniversary of the publication of Steven Morrissey’s autobiography (it had been out for ten days) but something much better: the 13th anniversary of the Sunday Times publishing A. A. Gill’s merciless mauling of it—a review which went on to win Hatchet Job of the Year

When Lucy and Ethel tried psychotropic drugs "Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac at Ginsberg's apt on NY's Lower East Side during the fall of 1953. The scene shows the two writers playing at an impromptu 'mystical alchemy' experiment with a pot; photo by Burroughs." www.instagram.com/p/DeypWnZIbW...

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

Twin Peaks fans: My husband sent me this post of Max Ernst’s mechanical elephant and said, “Philip Jeffries?” A quick google of Lynch and Ernst showed a bunch of Lynch’s Ernst books being auctioned off after his death. Fascinating, no? Thanks, @brianlibby.bsky.social!

Sounds like a new Edward Gorey book

Bat, Albrecht Dürer, 1522.

The air force used extensive study of quail before perfecting their pilot ejection tech.

Bonus Sunday meme 👻

I'll hand it to Obama here, this is a great line

I'm in the Aviary but I remember when there were birds here and now it's a (damn fine) coffee shop. I'm looking for the 1970s, trying to locate images of them in the here and now, but I realise my memories are just long exposures; multiple impressions making blurs with few fixed points to steer by.

Very excited to see Dana Ashbrook, Harry Goaz, Ray Wise and producer Sabrina Sutherland swap Twin Peaks stories tonight. It brought back a lot of memories; I first saw Dana Ashbrook on a panel in NYC on Nov. 17, 1990. Couldn’t help but reflect on the time that’s past (appropriate for The Return).

An amazing image from Twin Peaks, Dune, and Fallout star Kyle MacLachlan's memoir "Fictional Selves" that just shows how awesome Patrick Stuart is.

Very excited to see Dana Ashbrook, Harry Goaz, Ray Wise and producer Sabrina Sutherland swap Twin Peaks stories tonight. It brought back a lot of memories; I first saw Dana Ashbrook on a panel in NYC on Nov. 17, 1990. Couldn’t help but reflect on the time that’s past (appropriate for The Return).

I need a shock collar for every time I use a word twice in one post. Drives me mad.

Whoa. It’s like when Agent Cooper enlarged Laura Palmer’s eye to show the motorcycle reflected in it.

I wish we could've "met" Kay under other circumstances, but what an excellent human - and what an antidote for every political ad out there.

basketball stays winning

Dance of the witch-cats. Now you know what they get up to when you are not at home!

What is it about woodland paths? Is it simply their beauty or do they trigger a metaphor alert in the mind? #nature #autumn #poetry

Robert Rauschenberg by Allan Grant for Life Magazine, 1953 "I like to start working when it's almost too late... when my sense of efficiency is exhausted."

Imagine being late and trying to explain this to your boss Original post

Thinking of Elliott Smith, who we lost 23 years ago today. This haunts me.

Thinking of Elliott Smith, who we lost 23 years ago today. This haunts me.

I cannot do 5,000 pumpkins justice. But here’s the big display. Entire path is just littered with them. The ground, on pedestals, in the freaking trees!

Black and white photo of a staircase leading down to a liminal space. Hauntingly gorgeous

I love A Perfect Spy so much. It’s Shakespearean, a deeply complicated epic that only someone in complete control of his story could write. Masterful.

Hell yeah, I ranked her #1. One of the easiest decisions I’ve ever made.

Jack Nance by Georgette de Bruchard (1966)

Robert Wood Lynn’s Mothman Apologia weaves in the Mothman legend with the opioid crisis in West Virginia. It’s so powerful and is one of my top 5 books of poetry.

Japanese poster for LE SAMOURAI (1967) Starring Alain Delon Directed and co-written by Jean-Pierre Melville - BOTD in 1917

Moroccan painter Mohammed Melehi is a revelation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed...

What an awesome 10 mins of music, dance & filmmaking! Turns out the director, Gjon Mili, was a pioneer of capturing a sequence of actions in one photo. The Lindy Hop (below) was the cover for Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America. Gjon Mili is worth a search so you can see how good he was!

Brazilian tanager male #reflection at Sitii Macuquinho Lodge near Salesópolis, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #birds

Moroccan painter Mohammed Melehi is a revelation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed...