Alice & Martin Provensen - from The Iliad & the Odyssey (1956). #wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom

You win, America! This evening has been pretty cathartic.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

I had no idea that my gneeration's greatest use would come in being able to tell people on the internet who Ricky Martin is

Draft Kings is evil and should not be given such a prominent role in this our national holiday.

Liliana Cavani’s When Harry Met Sally?

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

With alt-text

i don't like it when bluesky becomes one big networked amygdala. it's always sort of like that.

"Bluesky c'est nul, il n'y a personne là-bas, à part tout juste quelques punks à chats". Argument entendu dans un cabinet ministériel. Fier d'être punk à chat !

OMG. “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”

Fine. I’ll do it. Whatever.

2026 is coming in like

I know I’m doing something right as a parent when I hop into the liquor store on New Year’s Eve, and the manager there asks how my daughter is enjoying her new wheelchair.

Funny Face is still such a weird premise-to-casting fit.

This is so true. And I’m here for it.

Turned out to be a little closer than I thought, but Gisler did indeed pull off the upset.

I swear I’d be very upset if someone started calling me “Tony Orlando” out of the blue.

It’s Wemby time! C’est l’heure de Wemby!

So, this puts us at roughly one percentage point off from regime change territory, right?

Do you remember?

People should be more up front with you about the degree of trauma involved in witnessing one’s country execute a textbook slide into authoritarianism.

This is a few months old but it illustrates why Philly is the best sandwich town in the world. The addition of Cooper Sharp to the John's menu was worthy of a report on the nightly news.

1. Coffee 2. Manti 3. A cat exposing its belly 4. Chinese Rocks 5. Richard Hell not getting credited for Chinese Rocks

I wish I hadn’t canceled my subscription last month, so I could cancel it over this. Some folks are really taking seriously Newsom’s injunction to carry on his work.

Joséphine, 32 ans, cantatrice #Jobdanimaux

Okay, I was trying to just sit with this, but we are getting very close to a “George W Bush is MY Commander-in-Chief” moment here.

Just noting right here that “the pods” in French are “capsules.” Not sure what to make of it quite yet, but it’s something.

“Europe’s inaction will go down not only as among its gravest moral failings in recent memory, but as an immense disservice to Israelis themselves.” www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

They didn’t just shut down USAID. They liquidated it. No roll call. No floor speech. Just silence— and rotting rice where mercy used to be. They killed the idea that America could care. Read the eulogy no one gave: thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com/p/the-eulogy...

I feel this in my soul

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

I had a joke about dire straits but Scylla cribbed this set up and the punchline skated away.

Gonna cross out “difficult,” photoshop in Diderot for Tobias Wilson-Bates, print it and post it on my office door for all prospective French majors.

I’m glad that just enough German has stuck with me to be able to eavesdrop on this rad, come-to-Jesus phone call the regional-rail ticket taker is having with his f-ed up brother who’s 24 years old and is not taking responsibility for his kid.

A gift from Cat-ar.

This is… how do you say… badass.

Unforgivable. No amount of apologies from this man will suffice. He cannot be allowed to stay in office. He is an unqualified eugenicist. Also an idiot.

Everybody in this Kroger knows I’m singing along to Susudio IRONICALLY, right? Right?

“History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”

I’m so confused. What country is this, again?

Athens GA!

In a world full of Jerry Hathaways, be a Chris Knight!

One of the top 2-3 movies that defined my childhood and taught me how to live.

If even Cemal Kafadar, a very even-keeled, positivist scholar of the Middle East is happily discarded to satisfy the current administration, then it means that it is unsafe to do social science in the US anymore.

That’s my senator!

I think these are the right questions. The reason any Democrat talking about the 2026 midterms is so galling is because our hair’s on fire right now. The strategy has to lead us to the streets of Belgrade, Seoul, or Istanbul and a forced resignation or impeachment. As improbable as that seems.

"The doj and fbi no longer have the ability to prosecute republican crimes" is understood but never stated

Colonel Redl was an awesome movie.