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Today, my Gaddis/Gardner/Gass series, which has taken the world by storm, comes to an end. Today I discuss MIDDLE C by William H. Gass, and PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke, two novels I feel privileged to have read.
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Bill Ryan retweeted
The Kennedy Center thing is fascinating because Trump a) really did break it via his meddling but also b) is a vain old man who wants his name on things and c) hasn’t been told “no” in so long that he just can’t accept that THE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT HIM TO ADD HIS NAME TO IT.
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent"
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Bill Ryan retweeted
I support this content but these "every frame" accounts annoy my pedantic side because this is absolutely not the 1,334th frame of HEAT. The 1,334th frame would've happened at around 55 and a half seconds into the movie. HEAT has close to 250,000 frames.
what always kills me about this is how could there be five like-minded individuals who were on board for this and how could they have possibly found each other. Despite how that might sound, i don't consider this to be a hopeful story.
Bill Ryan retweeted
starting a band called “beach boys 2” and writing songs like “gooder vibrations” and “wouldn’t it be even nicer”
Bill Ryan retweeted
Good lord. We need transparency. Now.
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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I've decided to move right along with an announcement of the next round of novels and films to be covered in the next two free posts. Click the free link or gaze upon these thumbnails.
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Today, my Gaddis/Gardner/Gass series, which has taken the world by storm, comes to an end. Today I discuss MIDDLE C by William H. Gass, and PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke, two novels I feel privileged to have read.
billryan64.substack.com/p/yo…