When new/young staff ask me about traveling for work and what they should know/do/expect, I ALWAYS share this story.

hi, can you do me a favor? take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them thank you, this is for science here is my contribution

Happy Sunday! This is Red, an adoptable dog at BARCS, and today we went on a snugglewalk. (That’s a walkies where you go 100ft and then stop to snuggle.)

Music is basically alchemical magic to me—I have absolutely no understanding of how it works, I just know I like it—and so I found this video of Jon Batiste hearing “Hot To Go” for the first time utterly fascinating:

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

14) I have zero excuses for not learning more. I have even fewer excuses for not being better than I am. Neither do you. We can both accomplish it - we're more than good enough & capable enough to.

Things are grim. It’s going to be a long, hard winter. I thought it prudent to lay in some supplies.

If you are a SNAP recipient and you need help feeding your pet, the MD SPCA on Falls Road is giving away pet food to SNAP recipients on Sunday 11/16:

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

You have ONE JOB.

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Can a historian help me, is not feeding or paying your troops typically a good idea

Today’s PM roundup of book deals includes a forthcoming book about tyromancy. (Google it. You’re welcome.) What a time to be alive.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Only losers hate on trans kids 🏳️‍⚧️

If you are wondering what a career in history book publishing is like, it’s this, all day, every day

A reminder for authors of biographies and similar literary works.

If you or someone you know is furloughed and needs help caring for their pet (food/medical care/emergency boarding), check to see if your local animal shelter has an intake prevention program. If you’re in Baltimore, BARCS has the Keeping Pets with Families program. www.barcs.org/help-keep-my...

Of all the songs. Of all the years. IYKYK.

I am not here to scold you about not reading the terms and conditions at academia.edu. Lord knows that I click through these things all the time. But yes, you did give them the rights to make an AI podcast of your uploaded work, I am sorry to say.

It’s real! I finally saw it with my own eyes!

We gave away 40lbs of candy and only saw two Mr. Trash Wheels. What is this world coming to!

Sure is, Herm. Sure is.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Walking home today, a visibly distraught guy stopped me, told me about his horrific breakup, said he just needed to feel like someone cared, then apologized for bringing me down. I said: my mother died two months ago, I constantly feel like shit, you can’t possibly make me feel worse, don’t worry.

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If you are a JHUP author with questions about the Anthropic settlement, you can get more info here. Neither I nor the Press can give you legal advice, etc etc etc. www.press.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...

If you or someone you know is furloughed and needs help caring for their pet (food/medical care/emergency boarding), check to see if your local animal shelter has an intake prevention program. If you’re in Baltimore, BARCS has the Keeping Pets with Families program. www.barcs.org/help-keep-my...

I saw “A Complete Unknown” (Chalamet as Dylan) and enjoyed it. I saw “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” (JA White as Springsteen) and enjoyed it. I would love to see a similar film about Emmylou Harris, Tori Amos, Dolly Parton, or another female artist with similar artistic longevity and growth.

Happy Saturday! This is Soju, an adoptable dog at BARCS (www.barcs.org) and today we went on a walkies AND did a bunch of snugglin’. Soju is a very, very good snuggler. A champion snuggler, really. You can meet Soju or one of her friends at BARCS M-F 2-6pm or S/S 11-4.

The “oh well he was in the military, of course he’s racist” type arguments are getting on my nerves, condescending bullshit from people who have no idea how big and diverse the military is

Ekiben just posted to Instagram that they are giving free meals to furloughed government employees with their work IDs, in person ordering at any location.

Hey, did I tell you guys that I recently saw a new comedy musical about the Great Emu War? Well, just in case: I recently saw a new comedy musical about the Great Emu War, and this is my theme song now.

If you are a JHUP author with questions about the Anthropic settlement, you can get more info here. Neither I nor the Press can give you legal advice, etc etc etc. www.press.jhu.edu/sites/defaul...

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A thing I’m learning from the year of our lord 2025 is that everyone else seems to be in a lot more group chats than I am.

Oh my god you should never connect something as mission-critical as an automated cat feeder to the Internet, what are you people doing

Stephen King is ok, the rest gotta go.

Attending a great panel at my 25th (!) law school with lawyers who are fighting in many different capacities. One big point was that their legal efforts are boosted when ordinary people speak out out, engage in peaceful protest, and otherwise push back. Make sure to get out for #NoKings today!!! 🐸

If anyone needs a fign idea.

"In America the Law is King." It's only Common Sense.

A reminder, dear ones, that your colleagues* at university presses are laboring under the same conditions of uncertainty and [waves at everything] as you are. *whether we are at your institution or no, you can consider us colleagues 🙂

Sometimes someone has to stand up and say no. Even if its not clear it will change things.

Most novels that win Big Prizes are fine, but not great.

Did you know there is a whole network of just-off-the-highway but otherwise middle-of-nowhere Indian restaurants (dhabas) that exist because 20% of truckers in the US are Punjabi? This one is in Bunker Hill, WV, off I-81.

It is a real curse to live in times that make previously baffling or inexplicable historical episodes understandable.

Animals from BARCS.org who were adopted, transferred to a rescue partner, or reunited with their human families this week: The Great Catsby (cat), Jude Paw (dog), Torty Spice (tortoise), and Buns of Steel (rabbit.) (Plus several dozen others with less hilarious names.)

As an editorial colleague of mine used to like to say, “I is edditer, I is not riter.” So, yes.

Me too, Tammy. Me too.