Chris Waddington
@CWaddington504
"Whirl is king." CV: @AntiquesMag @NOMA1910 @NOLAnews @StarTribune
Some paintings never go out of style. 🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. -Joseph Conrad, Some Reminiscences
Sixty years ago today, Bob Dylan performed his famous and controversial electric set at the Newport Folk Festival. Dylan opened with a blistering version of “Maggie’s Farm,” featuring Michael Bloomfield on guitar.
Very flattering even to be in the same sentence as ACB.
two masterpieces of shakespearean criticism, a century or so apart.
Walked out the door this morning and was treated to this Krewe of Muses mid summer practice parade
Thanks to Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson your children have a higher risk of cancer! Trump exempts Louisiana industrial plants from pollution rule aimed at reducing cancer risks nola.com/news/business/… via @nolanews
While we were distracted, Trump appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail abortion pill distribution—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the DOJ’s OLC. Don’t worry. He probly won’t do much until *after* the midterms… 1/
When you've been dead for 19 years but the spirits bring you back because the New York Times has unearthed a photo of you, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump
"Japanese officials said there was no written agreement with Washington — and no legally binding one would be drawn up", and surprise surprise, they deny giving Trump $550b to arbitrarily spend however he wants. ft.com/content/c1183b…
This is part of why you have a local. You are never a stranger.
do people still go to bars alone to drink and chat to strangers? is that actually a real thing people do??
Lots of good energy @NimrodJournal thanks to editor @BorisDralyuk. 🌞 I just subscribed. 🌞
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📚🚨The response to this was incredibly generous, so in return I’ve overcome my hatred of admin and typed out all of the answers as a few of you asked. I’ve also added a couple of my favourites at the end. ❤️🙏
I am in my memoir era, and very politely requesting recommendations for memoirs
Decatur, Texas Post Office Texas Plains - Ray Strong (1939)
seems like a lot of people who wonder why we don't build these anymore don't actually like seeing the gov spend billions on construction
I am a visual person who loves fashion magazines—my first job was at Mirabella, and for many years I wrote for Elle—but I have zero interest in looking at fashion magazines with AI models. I simply won’t.
Vogue’s August issue has begun to use “AI models” instead of human models for some of their photoshoots.
@BorisDralyuk, acclaimed translator of authors as diverse as Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, and recently Vernon Duke, returns to our pages to talk about the role of the translator, ICE immigration raids in his city of LA, and more. Our candid interview: tinyurl.com/54n5jnar
When you haven’t been somewhere with no light pollution for a long time, and finally look up at the night sky. Holy fuck.
Here is a great stanza by the late Jane Greer (@NorthDakotaJane) in her honor: No one will say it, but we know today’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flower reveals in one brief, glorious show our birth, our life, our final hour.