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Poem of the day: “A Few Words on the Soul” by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh:
agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/a-few-w…
Julia Wick
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Julia Wick
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- "Market price" for avocado toast has to be the most L.A. thing to have ever L.A.-ed.
- the woman vending bacon wrapped hotdog brought her tear glass gogglesProof it’s an L.A. protest.
- Finally caved & clicked an article about billionaires going to space… and uh what— cnn.com/2021/07/11/tec…
- Since 2 ppl have now told me they would act differently if they knew this, an FYI: I’m 3 months recovered from Covid & my sense of taste is STILL totally off So if the greater good/yr personal health don’t matter to you...What about the risk of GARLIC TASTING WEIRD INDEFINITELY?
- Nothing will ever beat the telegram that Dorothy Parker (a patron saint of blown deadlines) sent to her editor at Viking in 1945:
- It’s been drowned out by everything else... But in a country where drug overdose deaths hit a record high last year, I imagine this moment — where Biden acknowledges his son’s past drug problem & says he’s proud of him — meant something to a lot of Americans watching at home.
00:00 - Went to the office to get my computer monitor this am and discovered an unintentional museum exhibit honoring the moment time stopped
- This is a bot that "tweets words when they appear in The New York Times for the first time."
- LA City Hall already full of people waiting to get into the 10 am council Mtg. This group chanting “fuera”
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- LAist also shut down & LA is worse off for it. We found out when you did. Thank you to everyone who wrote for us, you did great fucking workDNAinfo and Gothamist are being shut down by their billionaire owner, a week after employees voted to unionize nyti.ms/2ztbfLK
- Is there any public health rationale for issuing an order that begins by telling people they’re ordered to remain in their homes & cannot “travel on foot” or use public transit... & then slowly, in confusing detail over 14 pages, makes clear that that’s NOT WHAT YOU MEAN AT ALL?
- sourdough sucks, the only good pandemic hobby is screaming in your car
- Today in Not the Onion: Axe body spray has condemned the violence at the Capitol and believes in the peaceful transition of power.
