ooh. thanks!

Salute to an all-time tweet

You’d file Meat Loaf under C?

Also, my sister was a juror on one of those cases and wow. How incredibly messed up. Those poor kids.

Last fall I was in the Grand Canyon for the first time since I was a teenager and I couldn’t believe how muddy the Colorado was.

I know that red northern AZ dirt. Swim in Silver Creek (pronounced: crick, ofc) and your underwear would be reddish brown for at least three laundry cycles.

When I have my students read aloud in class I always include a disclaimer about pronunciation to let them off the hook in advance. A lot of kids grow up as readers and develop bigger vocabularies than the people around them. They just don't get to use those words in conversation much. (True for me.)

The first time I lectured on Melville in an undergrad class (a million years ago now), I had a very sweet student who would pull me aside after class and gently let me know all the parts of the boat and other sailors' terms I'd mispronounced. I've always been grateful to her for that!

By coincidence, Clay and John had an extended conversation this morning about mispronunciation and radio broadcast, with a cameo appearance by Dylan who fesses up to having pronounced some things wrong. No shame in mispronouncing something. It means we're primarily readers. (I do it all the time.)

Exactly one year ago today:

But looking at the comment, maybe they really did like how you said it? 🤷

i only caught part of the show (i was teaching during part of it) but now i will go back and listen to the archive and think mean thoughts about people

fuck that shit

I love this idea!

The internet has always been, first and foremost, a graveyard.

Pulpit Fiction

Hegseth quotes a fictional hitman as if it's the Bible

The thing about American celebrity culture is that the only thing Americans love more than adoring certain celebrities, is the pleasure they take in watching their downfall. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” is one of the most famous lines in American film for a reason.

The committee’s report recommends that Yale change its mission statement to say, in line with the current Faculty Handbook, that the University’s “mission is to create, disseminate, and preserve knowledge through research and teaching.” That would remove the current mission statement’s commitment to “improving the world today,” its call to educate “aspiring leaders” and its mention of “an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community.”

Just when American society most needs universities--especially the privileged among them--to take moral leadership, Yale's faculty turns inward and shirks its greater responsibility.
Yale needs major reforms to rebuild public trust, faculty committee says
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"We've ended DEI - but we need you to give $10 million to pay for conservative professors."

Where my Warhol deep cut #ootd appreciation folks at

My kid when he was 2 or 3 wearing a Rockwell Kent MOBY-DICK shirt. I’m holding his hand, the tail end of my Rockwell Kent MOBY-DICK tattoo visible on my forearm. Little Italy circa 2011.

Reminds me of this old tattoo/t-shirt coordination.

Pic of me wearing a vintage Uniqlo Warhol “Heaven and Hell Are Just One Breath Away” t-shirt that matches the Warhol Heaven and Hell tattoo on my forearm, also pictured. Various books and records and nonsense in the background.

What do you think? Overkill?

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Dude is definitely a preview of me when it finally happens. A little less Chuck Berry and a little more David Byrne maybe.

A lot of 60ish former ravers out there now. Expect more of this

Damn if I am this happy that Orban is gone.... I can't even imagine the feeling I will have

Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially