Tip for contemporary screenwriting: something happens, then something else, then something bad happens, then all is fine, then something unexpected happens, then something ominous, then everything is fine, then something very very bad happens, then the cops show up. It's nighttime, the sirens fade.
Lol. That's exactly how I teach. Retiring soon so maybe that model dies with my generation. But maybe not.
Sorry to still be on such an Artemis high: but the coming launches will be transformative for the tiny generation now watching.
NASA's #artemis mission is going to inject extra excitement into the lives of kids growing up in these coming years. My granddaughter was so excited all day.
For what it's worth I think it's useful to ask the sort of questions posed in the article. One should always want to sharpen the blade of protest: I've been to all iterations if these #nokings events and though it's nice to be with fellow "concerned citizens" they feel diffuse.
3rd time's the charm #nokings #GrandadsRevolting
Son Fiacha (a luthier) in a very fun documentary on making a violin: youtu.be/hlntxsynqqw?...
Every morning the dreamer wakes with an entire new mythology of the world at their disposal. And with a yawn, a stretch, a brushing of teeth, it is shrugged away — never to guide, as mythology should, the direction of the day or of subsequent life.
(Partly inspired by people going to see Saussure lecturing in Geneva, but there's lots of precedents).
Micro idea: I'd like to see university's offer lectures to the public. The great unwashed could get a book of 10 tix for lectures. Certain classes would designate "open house" days. There is, I think, magic in the university classroom that's difficult to replicate elsewhere.
Killarney, Co. Kerry having a big night at the #Oscars. Jessie Buckley's win followed by Michael Fassbender on the stage to announce the best picture!
By my calculation I have 500 books that I can possibly read before I keel over. And probably from a relatively restricted range of genres. And since I mainly reread these days I'd say 150 tops new books. So every single selection matters. This is what I'm reading rn
On a (Mrs H) whim we went to see Sirāt (2025) a French-Spanish film by Óliver Laxe. I'm endlessly grateful that films like this still get made
If you need St Paddy in fictional form this weekend rush order my book. You'll have it finished by Paddy's day 2027
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Come on now. I think dyeing the river is disrespectful. All the others can, usually are respectfully (and pleasantly) done. I'm not especially trying to convince you of anything, just offering an (outraged) perspective. The river will be dyed, vomit will be expelled, St Paddy's day will proceed.
Safety is not my main concern. The objection is at the level of dare I say the sacred. The river has been desecrated long enough: stop treating it like a plaything for trivial amusement
I will say I've been consistent - and perhaps not all that solitary - in my loathing of it. The river is not a plaything to daub with dye. I'm not likely to convince many right now but I suspect we'll look back at this and be mortified
Nice, and close enough!
Let the annual hiberno-insult to the Chicago river begin. Can't describe to you how much I loathe the dying of the river green. Is it for this that St Patrick sacrificed himself? #PaddyDay
When I find it I'll set it on my desk and fully intend to read it, maybe tomorrow.
In the pocket of a jacket in a closet, or hung at the back of a chair, or stored in the basement — or perhaps in the luggage used on a long-ago flight — is the book I'm searching for, the book that might shape the thought I'm presently trying to complete.
Will universities rise to this challenge? No, of course not. In this manifesto I will blah, blah, blah
But the age of the human-as-widget may already be ending. As humans become increasingly unnecessary to the economy, education that supports each individual in becoming intensely—idiosyncratically, ethically, and aesthetically—human becomes paramount.
Universities will respond to their current crises by continuing to transform pedagogy into a process of human widget-making.
Steve - it's been too long since we caught up. I hope all is well
I now suspect something similar is going on with books: biblionesia, where many students (and adults in general) forget their former love of reading.
A few years ago I coined the term toponesia for the loss of connection — a place-forgetfulness — that many notice later in life, compared with the fierceness of attachment in childhood.
She'd brought it down to wash. It was "soiled", is that the word?
In fairness to me I think we have very different definitions of what constitutes "dirty" clothes
Helpfully and neatly folded Mrs H's laundry while she was on the treadmill. Later, holding me in a steady gaze, she grabbed the basket and headed to the laundry room. "They're dirty" she muttered.