Put-down of the year (Anna Manov on Lauren Oyler):

'...the Renata Adler of looking at your phone a lot...'

5.30am and streaks of lurid colour across the eastern sky.

'...it will take more than free infant school recorder lessons..to reignite the cultural explosion that burned through postwar Britain and gave us the international soft diplomatic heft to erase our imperial embarrassment.'

[via Manuela Boeckle]

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Grumbling for a good cause.
As cheap as watching a Netflix or Amazon movie Neurological Birdsong available from Mirabeau West Palm Beach via Amazon.
Mirabeau Press Alberto J Espay Brain

The bohemians are trickling back. Next it will be the avant garde
Here a visitor from Haight in Soho Square seen in the last week or two armed with his psychedelic sound system

dionne brand said it better than i ever could
thestar.com/entertainment/…

The Swan Point Garvey — a pretty design by Doug Hylan commissioned by my friend, Russ Manheimer, who will build a prototype as a tender for his clinker-built pocket yacht, Sjogin.

There's a three page study plan available online:

dhylanboats.com/swan-point-gar…

Packing again, after more than four months of settlement.

Ahead, a few months of intense travel and voyaging as we find our way to somewhere/some way we can live (and — who knows? — thrive) long-term.

Woke to an unfamiliar silence again — little traffic, no activity on nearby building sites — as Tangier enjoys three days of holiday for Eid al-Fitr.

our boat makes a way for us

it is a free passage
held in the surges

or standing on the sea of glass

our words move towards
each other

– Mary Oppen, 1980

I'm looking for crew for Wrack's voyage south to the Mediterranean, departing in early May from Cherbourg, in France. Sail-handling and watch-keeping experience are essential.

For further details: crewbay.com/job/12098

Or DM me.

Last summer, Lymington, south coast of England.

“I grew up in a time when culture was passed along through objects.”

– Aksel, in the film The Worst Person In The World (2021), directed by Joachim Trier.

From my ongoing work with 20+ years of personal journals: re gentrification in Waterloo. London Rent Cap HousingACrisis

Rain drips on the
tin roof, frogs
& crickets chant.

The passing days
turn to years.

Lying awake in the
dark, I know the
taste of ash.

– Kim Dorman

[from Kerala Journal, publ. Corbel Stone Press, 2021]