Josh K-sky

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Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jul 10

Post Thomas if you still got him

The 1998 Thomas guide for Los Angeles County. 352 new streets!

The Thomas guide map book splayed open with the three best-worn map pages pulled out, showing sections of central Los Angeles, including Dodger Stadium, the 10 freeway and downtown.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jul 7

You can just take a Ricky Jay book out of the library

The front cover of “learned pigs and fireproof women: unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers: Stone eaters, mind readers, poison, resistors, daredevils, singing, mice, etc., etc., etc., etc.” by Ricky Jay. It features, Victorian illustrations of a man playing the string instrument with his toes, a woman sticking her hand in fire, giant balls on a spiral ramp and a trapeze artist swinging with a loop around his neck.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jul 5

If the Fourth of July is America’s time to shine, the Fifth of July is surely Los Angeles’s

A purpleair air quality map. The dots are almost entirely yellow or red, with AQI levels raging from 50 to 70 in Northeast LA where the illegal fireworks were heaviest downtown up to 187 in Pasadena near the official rose bowl show.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 25

Mars, a mackerel tabby lying on a colorful Anthropologie bedspread, could not be less interested in what you’re about to tell him

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 12

RIP David Hockney. Can't think of two images that taught me more about looking at Southern California

Pearblossom Highway, 11-18 April 1986, #2 by David Hockney. A photo collage of a desert road with Joshua trees on either side, a bright blue sky, road signs and desert scrub, all rendered in hundreds of overlapping 4"x6" prints

Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) by David Hockney. A painting set at a swimming pool against a forested, hilly background that extends into a mountainous distance. A swimmer in white trunks approaches the edge of the pool underwater. A man with medium-length, wavy blond hair stands above that edge on the pool tile, wearing a salmon sportcoat, white slacks and dress shoes, gazing down into the pool. The water ranges from heavy to light blue, with rippling light forming a craquelure pattern on the surface of the lighter blue.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 8

It’s Bass v Raman now

The LA mayor’s race after the latest ballot drop on Sunday, June 7. Bass 35%, Raman 27.12%, Pratt 26.69%. A little more than 3000 votes separate Raman and Pratt.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 7

I’m sorry, I was told this was the bisexual final boss

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 3

I found a lost canvasser

A small opossum on my front porch next to a pretty ceramic urn

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 3

Really hoping this Pasadena resident gets that lesson today

A front yard with some big ass trees, a basketball hoop, and a Spencer Pratt for mayor sign

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 2

you may be primed to think of a normal desk as a tiny desk because of the previously featured tiny lectern

Full size Mayor Mamdani presents a free daycare announcement from a full sized lectern with assistance from two child-size children at a child-size lectern

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Jun 1

It’s about time pop music recognized the charms of the 2 freeway

Pick me up off the 2, you can get it Makin' love in a chemical sunset
Oh, I know it, I'm your
[Post-Chorus]
Eastside girl

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 31

Huh

The parties, also called bashments, became popular in the late 1960s as immigrants from the Caribbean hosted gatherings at home, especially in winter, when backyards were covered in snow. Invitations came strictly through word-of-mouth.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 30

Spotted my second Pratt sign in the wild. Probably a good sign that this one is in Pasadena

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 26

No DC for Tricky today but Christgau called it his fourth favorite album of 2001 so let’s hear what the Dean has to say

Blowback [Hollywood, 2001]
I have no idea whether this will prove the smash Maxinquaye wasn't--well, actually I do, but I promise to keep it quiet if you do. For sure he's presented his new label with his first song album since then. Where once were textures you could write a poem about now are textures you can hang a tune on. And forget P.J. Harvey for clout, this one's got the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Alanis Morissette and, uh, Live and Cyndi Lauper--all of whom sound fabulous. Yes, he's still very down in the mouth. With him, that's a matter of principle. But his defiance is more coherent, his mysticism more visionary. And if it's not gauche of me to mention it, he rocks and does a Nirvana song, not necessarily at the same time. A

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 24

might as well show you the video

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 23

Good suggestion Siri

I tried to write “Christopher Durang“ but my phone thought I meant “Duran Duran“. But on the off chance that it was wrong, it offered “Duran Duran Duran“ as an alternative.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 20

check it

A bar graph shows building permits issued for multifamily housing units in Los Angeles. The first three months of 2026 are almost equal to the full years of 2024 and 2025

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 19

great piece

Another assignment for you: watch one of the most recent Kong/Monsterverse films, and notice how little the story cares about Kong, really. He’s just a sort of screensaver for the human stories. Yes, you need humans, but to tell the story of Kong, you have to understand that humans matter because they matter to Kong.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 14

any opportunity

fuck the moon
@fthemoonreturns

fly me to the moon
let me kick its fucking ass
let me show it what i learned
in my moon jujitsu class

11:37 AM • 4/23/20 • Twitter Web App

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 11

Do you know The Age of Dreaming? Nina Revoyr’s Hollywood noir inspired by Hayakawa

Book cover featuring an image of seats in an okd theater. The age of dreaming, a novel by Nina Revoyr

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 11

It was this

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 8

A lesser-known joy of anti-poverty coalition politics in LA is contesting matters of the symbolic, the imaginary AND the real side by side with the Los Angeles Community Action Network ✊

A woman walks into City Council chambers wearing a jacket that with LACAN emblazoned on the back.

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 7

always appreciate your interest in this voter's opinion

graphic that says WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK above a phone message from Research Opinion Insight requesting my opinion about current issues in California

graphic that says SPEAK UP LOS ANGELES with pictures of three mayoral candidates above a message inviting me to take the Independent Voter Project survey

panel from Bloom County with L.H. Puttgrass, Ex-Plumber, offering SHOOT THE LAWYERS! MORE SKIN ON HBO! L.H. PUTTGRASS SIGNING OFF AND HEADING FOR THE TUB!

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 4

I rounded up everything going back to 2012 in this Twitter thread

In the summer of 2012 some old classmates and teachers kicked off an occasional summer book club on the ruins of a once-mighty blog with Roberto Bolaño's 2666, following it up in 2015 with Ben Marcus's THE FLAME ALPHABET, Tom McCarty's C and in 2018...

with Rachel Kushner's THE FLAMETHROWERS and José Donoso's THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT.

When the first pandemic summer hit around we gathered on Zoom to read Mikhail Bulgakhov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, and rolled that into the Infinite Lockdown Book Club. So far we've got to...

Samanta Schweblin, FEVER DREAM (probably my favorite of everything we've read)
Kathryn Davis, DUPLEX (off of a rec on here)
N.K. Jemisen, THE CITY WE BECAME
Madeline Miller, CIRCE (another fave)
Then we pivoted to...

a run of Eastern European surrealist film and fiction...
THE STREET OF CROCODILES (Bruno Schulz, 1934/The Brothers Quay,
1986)
THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM (Bruno Schulz, 1937/Wojciech Has, 1973)
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Viteslav Nezval, 1935/Jaromil Jires, 1970)

In October we pivoted back to contemporary literary fiction with
George Saunders, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO (love)
Fernanda Melchior, HURRICANE SEASON (brutal)
Valerie Luiselli, LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE
That got us to the end of 2020, such as it was. Gonna do a tomato and list more.

OK, 2021:
Susanna Clarke, PIRANESI
Carmen Maria Machado, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
Colson Whitehead, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Fyodor Dostoevsky, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Ralph Ellison, THE INVISIBLE MAN
Charles Johnson, MIDDLE PASSAGE
Herman Melville, BENITO CERENO

Paul Beatty, THE SELLOUT
Dorthe Nors, WILD SWIMS
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, MEXICAN GOTHIC
Douglas Stuart, SHUGGIE BAIN
Mat Johnson, PYM
George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH (which led to a brief revival of the blog)
John Crowley, LITTLE, BIG

we noticed in early 2022 that we'd had runs of Latin American women and Black American men, and so we decided to do a brief run of Contemporary American Women With Four-Letter Names:
Rachel Cusk, OUTLINE
Samantha Hunt, THE SEAS
Susan Choi, TRUST EXERCISE (another fave)

including in there a slight variation: Ling Ma, SEVERANCE

then onto
Dorothy Hughes, IN A LONELY PLACE
Zadie Smith, WHITE TEETH
and now we're in Laurence Sterne, TRISTRAM SHANDY

Josh K-sky@joshksky· May 2

Union halls used to have bars. They could again!

The words LABOR TEMPLE spelled out in neon, welcoming you to a Seattle Union Hall

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Apr 23

Did you also fall in love with this picture of Emmy Hennings

A woman stares out across a century from the post-WWI Dada era at something just beyond you

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Apr 22

Don't be bamboozled: the title Love & Theft is knowingly borrowed from Eric Lott's 1993 book of the same name, the definitive account of the origin and enduring power of minstrelsy in American culture.

20th anniversary edition
LOVE
&
THEFT
BLACKFACE MINSTRELSY
& THE AMERICAN
WORKING CLASS
With a Foreword by GREIL MARCUS
Eric Lott

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Apr 17

From the corner of 2nd and Main, the hidden power structure of Los Angeles reveals itself. In the distance, City Hall. In the foreground, the police. Before all, the fish taco.

Los Angeles streetscape shows LAPD headquarters, LA City Hall, and the Señor Fish location attached to LAPD headquarters

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Apr 16

The soundtrack of Laurel Canyon was my introduction to Mercury Rev, so, fair

Josh K-sky@joshksky· Apr 16

Wednesday night done right