Why stop at cursive? Other things you should’ve learned at school: BASIC, how to use an abacus, diagramming sentences, converting decimal numbers to binary (as well as octal, hexadecimal, etc), compounded interest. In other words: everything before charlatans like H. Ross Perot got involved.

Trying to settle on a final draft of a text whose very function is to capture the unsettled nature of language will be the death of me. Good luck sorting through these drafts when I’m dead!

So many motherfucking rhymes.

I was really embarrassed when a friend (at the time we were both in our 20s) told me that his favorite book was The Lord of the Rings, and that was effing Tolkien, who was an actual scholar, so I’ve never had any respect for most of you.

An Orchid in the Land of Tech would be a good title for a book.

There are people who are def online too much, but there are also people whose entire mental life operates in a predigested closed-loop world mapped out by the NY Times Best Seller list. I prefer the former.

Dogwood 2026 Twelve years with this lovely tree. One of my most meaningful relationships.

Sue Ann Kahn waited 16 years to publish one of her father's notebooks. It just so happened Louis Kahn's final one of the most interesting. Me in Architect Magazine. www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-n...

#TeToca Una historia confronta el estigma social del estado VIH positivo dentro de un círculo de amigos y el apoyo que encontramos en las personas que realmente nos valora. ➡️ youtu.be/UOeIPbQfYS8

“During the border crossing, customs officers discovered one of the group’s artworks, a cardboard monkey that, when a string was pulled, revealed a large penis tucked under its arm. The officers were so distracted and amused by the crude toy that they cut the inspection short…” I love history.

Level up in 2026 by stop saying “brothers and sisters” and “ladies and gentlemen” and other artificial groupings that exclude trans and nonbinary folks.

Billions of dollars and this is how they choose to look and act.

Remember: it’s not a midlife crisis if you die tomorrow.

Last late chance to join the Modern Jewish Thought seminar on Ethics that begins Saturday: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/j....

I’m so woke that I refuse to call him by his colonial name. He’ll always be Conejito Malo to me.

Coyote pup wandered by to check out what I was up to in my front yard a few minutes ago. My first instinct is always to hug a wild animal, but especially a coyote. Thankfully, my second instinct kicked in after a few seconds. #coyoteemoji

I’ve become bewitched by these translations of Yi Sang’s poetry: modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/five-po.... #thoughtcrime

"There is a crack in the earth. A crack so narrow, it’s all that’s left of the void, but it’s enough."—Hélène Cixous, trans. Sophie Lewis

The whole "I had to keep quiet about all the abuse and rape because it would hurt the movement" is on all of us.

no gods, no masters, no heroes, no leaders only comrades

Who wants to submit a panel proposal with me? Open to any topic as long as it (also) advocates for the complete destruction of the reigning translation/publication paradigm.

It’s pronounced shallow-meh.

Sto lat to my Polish husband, who would’ve been 123 years old today.

#horny for the Enlightenment As in “oh no, who now will be …”

It’s difficult to have much enthusiasm reading a 1000-page book when, by one of the first footnotes, it’s clear the author’s premise is utterly spurious.

This church has Kraftwerk in its hymnal.

“Ages pass. Entire mountains, worlds, and gaggles of visions. Too many reptiles. The last one: A cave made of pigs. I’m in a gigantic moving pig, made of piggish tiles. Narcotics spawn styles in art and architecture.”

„Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being.”—Judith Butler #styling

Yes, except for all the goddamn tourists, who bc of its fabled “walkability,” are wheeling their oversized luggage behind them on the cobblestone. At all hours.

That reminds me: I’m thinking of dedicating my translation book “to Clarence Thomas and all the other dumb little bitches.” Though maybe the couple of paragraphs I write about him in one of the essays might be enough.

I forget. Are we back to pretending that Benjamin Moser isn’t a messy little bitch now?

“That these issues are now coming to light is indicative of a planning process that — in typical Dallas fashion — has been disorganized, rushed and lacking in transparency from its inception.”

My only question would be: do you think it’s fair that you’re so fucking cool?

Come get your gender on.

The non-event will have already happened.

“High risk self-discovery” would make a good title for a memoir.

Was toying with the idea of letting opera become my new obsession, but then I saw that the one opera next season I was most interested in starts at 7pm, last 4½ hours, requires reading, etc etc. But I have a year to change my mind. Narrator VO: He won’t change his mind.

Just as the average fish doesn’t perceive the water, the average American doesn’t perceive the barbarism.

“…so much time / To grieve the lack of time”

A lot of garbage/troll/bot (or bot-adjacent) accounts following me lately. I have no interest in following, engaging, or being followed by accounts that already follow and repost 43,000+ accounts. You can't be real. (Also: this is the point when Twitter started to go off the rails.)

In Christianity there's a prayer called an ejaculation. More of that, please. 🙏💦

Always baffling to listen to someone, an American, who’s lived in Poland for more than 30 years pronounce Polish words and names so horribly that even I have no idea what she’s saying or who she’s talking about.

One more week before our philosophy study group starts back: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/g.... Come join us.

My favorite line from today's translation work: "there are those who read and cry." It's obviously about @poemakontsa.bsky.social.

If you can't understand why I won't vote for a Democratic candidate who uses the same talking points as the genociders, I don't know what to tell you.

Counterpoint: it was fascism all along.

"We came from a community that was viscerally and intimately experienced in the feeling of annihilation. So when we watched 9/11 I remember being scared, but also feeling that this kind of trauma was familiar to me. The idea that 2,000 people could suddenly evacuate the planet? That’s called AIDS."

BREAKING: Republican Texas incumbent Congressman Dan Crenshaw has lost his primary.

Got my heart tested and it came back 0. #zero True story.

One of the things I hate most about this illegitimate government and society is the parroting, especially by the media, of the phrase "make a deal" as if it said something meaningful. But also: all the crimes.