The Wolvere was a stout carl for the nones; Ful thyc he was with adamantine bones. “The best ther is, bubb,” he wuld oft advyse, “Bot that I do, hit ys nout verry nyce.”

there are people who suffered permanent brain damage from reading Wonkette in 2012

It’s because a lot of liberals are homophobic. Their “support” of gay and trans people is theoretical / transactional and subject to change at any time

incisive, funny, and much-needed. callas could not have become spectacle were she not, first and foremost, a consummate and dedicated artist. i wish directors were interested in her artistry, but unfortunately they probably don't like how she shows them up

Will be worth making some time today or this weekend to read @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social's lovely review of David Bentley Hart's big book on mind, All Things Are Full of Gods. www.thebulwark.com/p/god-talk-d...

yes, the miraculous is not part of the logic of history. by trying to make it such you foreclose the miraculous entirely and also abandon your ethical duties. god redeems and raises up failure, but failure means having actually really tried to do something

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty philologist: Νεστορος : ε[ιμ?]ι : ευποτ[ον] : ποτεριον : ͱος δ'α<ν> τοδε π[ιε]σι : ποτερι[ο] : αυτικα κενον ͱιμερ[ος ͱαιρ]εσει : καλλιστε[φα]νο : Αφροδιτες

actually a crime that jerry hadley never got to do West Side Story for real because holy shit he sings the best "Maria" i have ever heard www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AA...

rereading mary wollstonecraft, the OG feminist killjoy, and remembering why she's so much fun. "hmm what if instead of relegating women to innocence and idiocy we allowed them to cultivate intelligence and actual virtue?"

one of the perils of teaching in a great books program is that you start designing syllabi around the question "how can i make my students as insane as possible?" but you have to come up with a professional-sounding reason as well

ERIC GARLAND AS NATHAN DETROIT IN “GUYS & DOLLS:” time for some dame theory

Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse(or pockets)/backpack at any given moment: 1) novel 2) book i assigned to my students 3) airpods 4) latest book by a friend 5) writing tablet

absolutely no feeling of refreshment quite like having slogged through a reading, barely keeping up with what i assigned to my students amid my other responsibilities, and then hearing a student say "this was my favorite reading of the term." fountain-of-youth-level stuff

please don't upend your curriculum this week in order to have your students be your free therapists

one of the stupidest things that we continue to do as a society is equate public disgrace with legal punishment. the fact that somebody shouldn’t be jailed or shot doesn’t mean they should keep their job or social position. social censure is not “carceral”

gonna say this over and over: there is no such thing as an “AI checker.” they do not work. you are asking a machine to make a philological judgment, a thing it cannot do. you can read the essays yourself, devise better prompts, or do blue book essays. those are the choices

it's also very funny because you've got all these very dour and restrictive evangelical colleges and then St. Olaf, the shining mecca of midwestern choir gays where the (insanely good) choir enjoys the kind of budget normally reserved for revenue varsity sports

the ever-evolving diet and training technologies of hollywood mean that basically nobody has a realistic idea of what eating at maintenance calories looks like. no athlete looks like a movie star because movie stars on set are literally not eating enough food to live

The Myth of "Consensual" Sex

i promise to be exactly as annoying on here as i was on twitter, but you gotta give me time to work back up to it