I want! I want!

William Blake, "I Want! I Want!" (1793)

Thursday night, while puttering around my front porch picking the scattered newspaper I’d read that morning off the ground, I caught a glimpse of the moon and rose up, entranced. It was especially beautiful, one of those big, round moons the color of yellow sapphires, or Michael Jordan’s eyes. A Buck Moon. I stood there for several seconds, then considered taking a bad photo for my Instagram Stories or texting a friend. “No,” I thought. "I’ll keep this for myself.” But that’s impossible. The moon belongs to everyone.

The moon landing, as you know, was 50 years ago today. A few things to read and watch: the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town coverage of moon landing parties in 1969, a 2005 review of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth in the London Review of Books, and lastly, obviously, the main event.

Taking it all the right way

David Bowie, "Right (Alternative Gouster Mix)"

Thomas Higginson on Emily Dickinson

"She makes all the bread for her father only likes hers & says, "& people must have puddings" this very dreamily, as if they were comets – so she makes them"

Bertolt Brecht, "Questions From A Worker Who Reads"

Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?

Rejina Pyo SS 19

Rejina Pyo's SS 2019 collection is a breath of fresh air: vacation dressing that's not that tired ass late 70s-early 80s Italian vacation three-oranges-in-a-net-bag thing that's been rolling out every summer for the past few years.

Black excellence

Source

Jennifer Packer

Say Her Name

And Dreaming

For James III

Graces

 Yellow Roses

From Goethe's Venetian Epigrams

I fell in love as a boy with a puppet show;

it attracted me for a long time until I destroyed it.

Peter Beste

From his "Houston Rap" series.

"I'm not going to let you go so soon, and so embarrassingly soft."

I read a tweet earlier today that made me seek out a Nina Simone performance I'd never seen, which wrecked me, of course. "I do not believe the conditions that produced a situation that demanded a song like that."