- @bill
A wonderful little poem.
❤️ to whoever is reading this.
Sad, curious, interesting. A snapshot of modern life in Brooklyn. Also a snapshot of modern life online. Two worlds I used to know very well, but now all of this seems very foreign (and surreal) to me.
I’m especially curious/concerned about this army of haters that show up whenever there’s an easy target. (The existence of the “angry mob” is at least as old as the Bible. Sometimes it’s a metaphor for humanity at its absolute worst. Sometimes it just is humanity at its worst.) That energy really freaks me out. Who are these people? Why are they so hateful? I have all kinds of hypotheses, but... no matter.
Love is the answer. Love will prevail.
Amazing thing I didn’t know:
Martha was often penniless and had to borrow money from her own dancers. Yet for her, poverty was merely a vantage point: Martha was beholden to no one. She bargained with rag merchants on Orchard Street to get the material she needed for her company’s costumes and often performed in the auditoriums of Manhattan high schools.
Sounds like an interesting film.
Some interesting backstory on today’s AOTD, “Thursday,” which I read (and loved) yesterday. God bless The New Yorker for the constant stream of super-high quality fiction. It’s rarely as daring as I want, but often more enjoyable (vivid, immersive) than I expect. Extraordinarily consistent, super-high quality, week after week. I’m just realizing now: I’ve been devouring this stuff, on and off, for over two decades.
Ahhh, damn. Excellent. Heavy.
Written in 1902. Fascinating!
Solid. Strange.
Merve Emre is amazing. Great article. Great comments.
Funny, easy reading.
Half really great advice. Half reallllllly bad — practically unethical?! —advice.
This reminded me of so many things I don’t miss about (1) life in big cities (2) cell phones & texting (3) modern society, culture.
Enjoyable.