Another pair of links that go well together:
\nA Man Should Collect Something (direct link to mp3 file)
\nA Plea for Art: Against the Tyranny of Our Poptimist Dystopia
\nlignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/07/10/another-pair-of-links-that.html","date_published":"2026-07-10T19:53:47+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-10 19:53","date_timestamp":1783713227,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93594004","content_html":"The issue is that aesthetic hierarchy of any kind has become the last obscenity, the one judgment we’re no longer permitted to make, because to say that one thing is better than another is to admit that better exists. And if better exists out there, in the world of songs and books and movies, then it exists out here for us too, in the world of our lives, and that way lies the intolerable thought that we might have gone too easy on...
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Two recent posts about the centrality of sung narrative poetry that I think pair together nicely.
\nSamwise the Bard
\nWhat You Won’t Learn About the Odyssey from a Movie
“I’m a simple man,” he said, “just like a tomato.”
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/06/01/im-a-simple-man-he.html","date_published":"2026-06-01T14:36:31+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-01 14:36","date_timestamp":1780324591,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89887780","content_html":"O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love toward you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns...
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","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/03/23/from-the-hungarian-confessio-catholica.html","date_published":"2026-03-23T21:15:13+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-23 21:15","date_timestamp":1774300513,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86674042","content_html":"Saturday Links & Quotes - 3/21/26: lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/03/21/saturday-links-quotes.html","date_published":"2026-03-21T15:12:46+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-21 15:12","date_timestamp":1774105966,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82386417","content_html":"Der Blaue Reiter (1903) by Wassily Kandinsky
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Flignified.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fwassily-kandinsky-1903-the-blue-rider-der-blaue-reiter-oil-on-canvas-52.1-x.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2026/01/19/der-blaue-reiter-by-wassily.html","date_published":"2026-01-19T13:55:25+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-19 13:55","date_timestamp":1768830925,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"78813885","content_html":"“See, if I was big into the devil, I would have spelled it right.”\n\n
Grimmness - Hitchcock vs. Wertham\n\n
vacancies, absences: lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/09/07/vacancies-absences.html","date_published":"2025-09-07T22:38:15+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-07 22:38","date_timestamp":1757284695,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"70426094","content_html":"Finished 2025: Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together by Brian 📚\n\nI don’t know why I can’t accept anything about this book. I can accept all sorts of weird plots and characters, but it’s a bridge roo far for me to accept that a pea, a bee, and a jay could be friends. I’m slightly offended by this book! It’s r... lignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/08/03/finished-pea-bee-jay-stuck.html","date_published":"2025-08-03T20:39:45+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-03 20:39","date_timestamp":1754253585,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"70425936","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780895266385/cover.jpg\")
Finished 2025: The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Sylvia Shaw Judson 📚
\nOne never finishes this book.
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Finished 2025: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 📚
\nAnother re-read.
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Finished 2025: Lady into Fox (Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantas… by David Garnett 📚
\nI’m grateful that this gem was called to my attention. Since reading it last week, I have been recommending it repeatedly!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/31/finished-lady-into-fox-dover.html","date_published":"2025-07-31T17:12:27+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-31 17:12","date_timestamp":1753981947,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"70227728","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781528767491/cover.jpg\")
Finished 2025: Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚
\nRe-read. Always a joy to re-read.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/31/finished-treasure-island-illustrated-by.html","date_published":"2025-07-31T16:36:06+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-31 16:36","date_timestamp":1753979766,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69885300","content_html":"Confirmed: Kierkegaard was a smoker.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/26/confirmed-kierkegaard-was-a-smoker.html","date_published":"2025-07-27T00:09:30+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-27 00:09","date_timestamp":1753574970,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69478656","content_html":"When 'academic' is another word for 'detective': lignified.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/21/150032.html","date_published":"2025-07-21T19:00:32+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-21 19:00","date_timestamp":1753124432,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69462898","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781527110694/cover.jpg\")
Finished 2025: Shared Life by Donald Macleod 📚
\nGood enough for what it is (a slim introduction to the topic for beginners), I guess.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/21/finished-shared-life-by-donald.html","date_published":"2025-07-21T15:31:00+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-21 15:31","date_timestamp":1753111860,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69293685","content_html":"read fewer books but read them with greater care
\n\n\nThere are many valid reasons to read, but if you’re about self-improvement in one way or another — an increase in knowledge or insight or, hey, even wisdom — then one of the most reliable ways to become a better reader is to read fewer books but read them with greater care. If you would be wise, an essential book you know intimately — through slow reading or repeated reading — is of more use to you than a dozen lesser books that you know only casually.
\n
https://blog.ayjay.org/getting-through/
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/18/read-fewer-books-but-read.html","date_published":"2025-07-18T22:43:56+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-18 22:43","date_timestamp":1752878636,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69256316","content_html":"Finished 2025: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 📚\nMy first Morrison (and Morrison’s first novel), past due.\nThe writing is lovely. Characters are (mostly) fully realized.\nWhat I wasn’t expecting was the degree to which this novel is about mass media and the ways in which 20th century mass media shaped cultu... lignified.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/18/finished-the-bluest-eye-by.html","date_published":"2025-07-18T13:50:46+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-18 13:50","date_timestamp":1752846646,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68413990","content_html":"The Maverick Animator of Chaos\nAbout Shinya Ohira.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/07/the-maverick-animator-of-chaos.html","date_published":"2025-07-07T17:42:56+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-07 17:42","date_timestamp":1751910176,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68397100","content_html":"\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/07/kayaking-manhattan-journalist-eliot-stein.html","date_published":"2025-07-07T13:46:06+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-07 13:46","date_timestamp":1751895966,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68092012","content_html":" \n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/02/202553.html","date_published":"2025-07-03T00:25:53+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-03 00:25","date_timestamp":1751502353,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67996022","content_html":"Journalist Eliot Stein takes us along on the unique adventure of kayaking the perimeter of Manhattan Island and observes some of the pockets of nature that persist within New York’s concrete jungle.
\n
Note to myself. Read this: \nANTIQUA ET NOVA
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/07/01/note-to-myself-read-this.html","date_published":"2025-07-01T20:38:25+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-01 20:38","date_timestamp":1751402305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67721789","content_html":"Le Cyclope (c. 1914) by Odilon Redon
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Flignified.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F1914-redon-zyklop-anagoria.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/2025/06/27/le-cyclope-c-by-odilon.html","date_published":"2025-06-27T10:09:23+00:00","author":{"name":"micro-jro","url":"https://lignified.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F1748233.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lignified"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-27 10:09","date_timestamp":1751018963,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"61539818","content_html":"@Mtt This looks neat, but… I can’t find any photo or video review that actually shows what this wallet looks like in a pocket!
\nOne of the reasons I use a really thin wallet is because I dislike pocket bulge!
\np.s. I’m here because I appreciate your Sumo theme and wanted to see who was behind it! Thank you!