Mark Sarvas

These. Fucking. Assholes.

O’Hagan slaps.

The Vatican newspaper is the only one in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed by Tr*mp's military strikes — on its front page.

Same. Malek is embarrassing.

Big day tomorrow, send me good vibes, y'all!

Not to brag but I’ve been reading MZS since we both wrote for the same college paper, got in on the ground floor. He’s a good writer and a nice person. Go check out his online bookstore.

Stay gold, pony boy.

(Can immediately smell the burning caps paper smell.)

Any Angeleno who attends this residency is a status hungry tool.

VW hubcap by the side of the road in Ménerbes ...

Every hubcap tells a story, even in Provence ...

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

Péter Magyar: No one – neither Ukraine nor Russia – can blackmail sovereign Hungary Péter Magyar, leader of the Tisza Party, called on the EU to suspend ties with Ukraine until the Ukrainian president clarifies his remarks.

Hungary is a lost cause when even the opposition leader, who, incidentally, opposes Ukraine's fast-track EU bid, sounds like Orbán:
"Magyar called on the leadership of the European Union to suspend all relations with Ukraine until President Zelensky clarifies his remarks and apologises to Hungary.

She's gonna go home and shoot her dog ...

scanned page of a poem: “to the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Paul McCartney's decade of transformation: From Beatles breakup to John Lennon's murder Man on the Run shows McCartney's effort to define himself outside The Beatles' shadow: "Paul making this documentary was a way of coming to terms with that whole period," says director Morgan Neville.

Man on the Run shows McCartney's effort to define himself outside The Beatles' shadow: "Paul making this documentary was a way of coming to terms with that whole period," says director Morgan Neville. n.pr/40Hxvf8

The number of times HOLY FUCK shows up in this thread is kind of a treat.

Spoke too soon.

There are input days and there are output days. Today is shaping up as the former.

Yes! That might be my single favorite quality about JB. Just wonderful.

John Berger with Michael Ondaatje, Conversation 4, Episode 7 John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, whose body of work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer's words, "the…

My giants, inspiring me today.

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Writing studio with a view of Provence.

My incredible workspace at the Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes, where I will spend the next month hard at work on book four. I have been dreaming of this place for ten years, still feels unreal to be here. I won’t be posting much in March but I wish all safety amid the madness. Adieu!

Good question. One that I can’t answer (yet).

Why do we get hat head but not glove hand or shoe foot? (Jet lagged musings.)

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The dog is being wagged.

Same old bullshit every few years. They aren't leaving because, surprise, rich people don't want to live in places that suck.

John Steinbeck - BOTD

The Ruthless Benevolence of a Great Editor Ann Godoff, who died this week, cared passionately about her writers—and much less about her own ego.

"The essence of editing is ethics; it’s the act of caring for the expression of the thoughts of another as if they were your own."

Just a reminder that this happened two days ago.

David Ellison is the nepo baby who runs Paramount/Skydance and brought on Bari Weiss to destroy CBS News. He will now run Warner Bros and CNN after the likely merger.

Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

This is how real reporters work. I'm ashamed of this country.

"The Guardian obtained the missing FBI form 302 reports, which memorialize 25 pages of agents’ notes from the four interviews conducted in the summer and fall of 2019."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Despite the troubles and horrors, we're also living in the most meet-cute buddy movie ever.