The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Im doing this in miniature so my kids can read my journals and my true thoughts about them
Before you get upset, know that Truman also issued an Easter message that included the f-word and praise for Allah.
Trump is calling for a record $1.5T defense budget.
Roughly half of this spending will go to private contractors, many of whom routinely price-gouge the government.
Reminder that Don Jr. and Eric Trump are big investors in drone companies looking to obtain defense contracts.
See the problem?
Teleportation? All night plastic jug liquor bender? Who’s to say?
Remember that women named Karen who made all her money job coaching grad students? What ever happened to her? She was a sad bridge between College Misery website golden age and what followed
It’s also such a well known sensitivity in Montreal! He should have known!
Little flowers everywhere
I don’t think I can recommend that a Lacan deepdive right now will help anything but a Lacan deepdive has helped me. And the Freud deepdive I have planned once my Ebayed Standard Edition arrives will only add to it
This is a dangerous era in which to have one’s full attentive faculties!
So many educators are advocating for the use of AI without knowing how it works or having any ability to verify what it does to their students
When she’s right she’s right.
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives?
A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit.
Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit?
A: No, we didn’t.
So in the latest episode of Where Should We Begin? the caller is in love with an AI bot who speaks on the episode with the funniest electronic voice and I have no idea how Esther didn't burst out laughing every time it talked.
Amy Madigan was great as Peggy Guggenheim
Did you like Blue Moon? I thought I could watch that movie every day if I had to but I don’t think Ethan will win
I have been listening to Gounod’s Faust one vinyl side at a time. Beautiful
His WWI movie was amazing. Because a squirrel snuck into our house down the chimney during the screening and trashed the place before I got back, I have negative connotations with the movie, but it is still very good!
Cabinet members normally should imagine long careers at think tanks and universities. Very much not the case with this crowd.
Not enough press is given to the fact that so many of Trump’s people are living on military bases. It’s unnatural and surely leads to their apocalyptic thinking with not exit ramp back into society
Gillibrand: "How they missed this was a girls' school is very concerning to me. If Sec. Hegseth did not cut the funding for this area of review by 90%, if he did not continually try to undermine the rules & procedures our service members & generals take - I think he should resign bc of this failure"
Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.
I had an art teacher coworker for years who would have her students make a Calder’s Circus every year out of found materials. Hard to imagine a better lesson
It’s beautiful! Back then, Elegy and Dream of the Unified Field came into my life at the same time and both were stunning artifacts inside and out.
I’ve been gorging on Jorie Graham and Larry Levis and it’s like two radically different very beautiful tours of the 70s-90s
Ooooh does that do it too? the Float Test and So young, so old are the two I’m thinking of
Through action. Which is fine except it takes a lot of skill to then not create a very slow moving beginning which to be fair a lot of 19th century novels have too.
But yeah maybe cool it with the “here’s a novel constantly moving between three or four couples” trope
And I know you’re thinking “but 19th century novels do this all the time!” But they love explicit narration that makes clear who everyone is before you meet them. Now because I think it’s hard for fiction writers to not think cinematically they want the relationships to reveal themselves
One thing that’s weird in contemporary fiction is the love of having like three or four sets of couples and constantly moving between them. It takes a lot of skill to do this well without the reader spending a huge amount of time trying to keep them straight
L’Elisir d’Amore at the Utah Opera was so well done.
