Another in a long list of lists for Friday lights, this for August 15, 2025, but fine to listen whenever you are up with the dawn, with your workout, your meditation, your reading, into the day with your protesting, your mockery of the dangerous idiot overlords by any available means, etc., or also quite fine just to devote an hour to an hour of devotional listening. The first songs are in a mournful tone, but Arooj Aftab lifts that spell by casting another in a sweeping love song with the lyric “I’m drunk and you’re insane, tell me how we will get home,” and from there, the beat goes up and away.

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black shabbat #237

writing from elysian’s old days

Our dear friends at Clockshop, in recognition of my years of service sporadically making delicious staff lunches and woefully undercharging to cook for their various fundraisers, published a slender but poignant volume of little gems from elysian’s old PR emails. Everything Is All Very Nice is available for ordering HERE.

This is not in the book:

9.22.15

it is so peaceful here 

on kitchen earth today

we have staff haiku time

though none of us knows

the proper measure:

 

over two days two quarts

of yogurt become one—

future lebneh

 

then things go south

less haiku more telegram

 

knife’s edge is sharp

that’s no carrot goddammit

that’s my fingertip send first aid kit