i don’t get Harold Bloom…marketed as this renegade defender of educated, impassioned interpretation, but then i read his books & the majority of them are very dull, with his only technique being comparison. “Crane was like Eliot and Stevens with Whitmanian aspiration.” booring!!

Marks & Spencer have outdone themselves with Xmas Tree decorations this year

Wow we really are in hell

left wing intellectuals on right wing intellectuals: wow look at all these fun weirdos, i am gonna make a special scrap book of their ideas...omg do i have a crush? right wing intellectuals on left wing intellectuals: look, these guys are all jews

new column, on becoming completely uninterested in the moviegoing zeitgeist splicetoday.com/moving-pictu…

There was an entire culture of “literary men” as recently as the 2010s. Like there was a genre of hipster white guy who wouldn’t stop talking about David Foster Wallace. For some reason, the publishing industry got incredibly hostile to white guys and now literary culture doesn’t exist anymore. They thought they could take it away and have it for themselves, but all they could do was ruin it. They give Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards almost exclusively to books about race by black authors now, and nobody reads the books or pays any attention to the awards. Literature is dead and the big publishers are supported almost entirely by romance slop for white wine moms.

I honestly didn’t expect Larry David to come out firing like this:

first time seeing one of these four-quadrant charts that i actually enjoyed. not sure if it's a "bisexual perfume," but i really enjoy carlen parfums's "butch femme," which smells like pho (the vietnamese soup) substack.com/home/post/p-220…

Gen-Z women are skipping a crucial step in their dating lives: learning how to actually be in a relationship. thecut.com/article/entry-lev…

Melville heads lets get together and start the eighty epigraph trend (it goes on for nine more pages and he eventually starts making them up)