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  1. Video: How Byrne and Eno make music together: a short documentary. tmblr.co/Zv3V7yMBvJjX via @openculture h/t @biblioklept about 2 hours ago via Tumblr
  2. Here's what this afternoon sounds like, in case you were wondering. Side B to be specific. shallowrewards.tumblr.com/post/235746259… @shallowrewards 3:14 PM May 25th via web
  3. A gem of a time capsule for the 1960s NYC scene: Antonello Branca’s “What’s Happening?” (1967): ahistoryofnewyork.com/2011/05/1960s-… #dwntwn12 @ubuweb 8:46 AM May 25th via web
  4. Joe Brainard recordings at PennSound: writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Br… #dwntwn12 7:24 AM May 25th via web
  5. Photo: Joe Brainard, Untitled (Tattoo), 1972. tmblr.co/Zv3V7yM6e03A #dwntwn12 7:21 AM May 25th via Tumblr
  6. @jennpelly It only rules until it caves in on me and I die under an enormous pile of unread books. 6:55 AM May 25th via web in reply to jennpelly
  7. My office is perilously close to looking like this: bit.ly/LMq9Os #dwntwn12 #brainard 6:47 AM May 25th via web
  8. Photo: Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard, from S, 1963. Via Jacket #16: Joe Brainard feature. tmblr.co/Zv3V7yM6YB8D #dwntwn12 6:34 AM May 25th via Tumblr
  9. "The Zen of Joe Brainard: On the Collected Writings," by @busybeinglingan: themillions.com/2012/03/the-ze… #dwntwn12 @the_millions 7:15 PM May 24th via web
  10. Photo: C: A Journal of Poetry, vol. 2, no. 11 (Summer 1965). Cover by Joe Brainard. tmblr.co/Zv3V7yM5EZp- #dwntwn12 7:09 PM May 24th via Tumblr
  11. @hujane @drunkenbee It will happen. 7:06 AM May 24th via web in reply to hujane
  12. @j_d_hastings I wasn't quite sure how else to describe such a thing. 11:09 PM May 23rd via web in reply to j_d_hastings
  13. Photo: Marcel Duchamp in a rainbow hammock. tmblr.co/Zv3V7yM2FAEc 11:04 PM May 23rd via Tumblr
  14. Perfect soundtrack for late nite reading. MT @kitabet fabulous podcast of early 20thC 78rpm songs from @iannagoski mixcloud.com/fatcatrecords/… 10:20 PM May 23rd via web
  15. Plus, some of his writing abt war, which I first encountered while teaching comp in grad school in the mid-90s, will stick w/ me forever. 9:54 PM May 23rd via web
  16. Paul/Betty was a mess, but Fussell's CLASS provided my friends w/ fodder for drinking conversation for a decade. books.google.com/books?id=aPbF1… #rip 9:53 PM May 23rd via web
  • Name Bryan Waterman
  • Location Downtown
  • Web http://bryanwater...
  • Bio NYU English. Author of Marquee Moon (33 1/3, Continuum, 2011). Writing a book about early American sex scandals. Follow @pwhny for NYC lit & cultural history.
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