God, Im such a stereotype: I drink the Heather in Queue, a go-to house cocktail of the Eastern Standard, the classiest old bar in Boston, with the best drinks and the most wonderful bar staff.

Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken, translated by Thomas Moran

Each one replaced by a - somehow - even worse white man.

I would love it if the language did this. At dinner on Thursday, someone asked what I missed most about China; one part of my answer involved humor. China has one of the most dynamic linguistic humor cultures I’ve ever encountered, 1.3 billion people constantly playing with words. It’s so much fun.

あそこに本を買ったことがあるね　😊

So the Mandalorian and Grogu is about a single dad, basically?

Now it’s Everclear? Seriously? It’s like being back inside my middle-school head in here

Some millennial has a hold over f the radio in this college gym; they’re playing Torn by whatsherface

Genuinely a really fun read, that one.

I have never wanted an article de-paywalled so badly. They’re all cosplaying in overpriced Airbnbs

Just got invited to give a talk and submit an article for this upcoming symposium at the Field Museum in Chicago about the Sinologist whose archive is underpinning my new research. Thing is…it’s happening in a month. I just went from normally busy to totally slammed in one morning.

Sigh. 450 BC? Probably not.

Why did we abandon this original spelling of “draft?”

The poet and translator says THIS. ALL. DAY.

Say their names: Amin Abdullah Mansour Kaziha Nader Awad And in their honor, join us in the fight to disarm hate and free America from gun violence.

Why yes, I am urban twee sometimes.

Me, right now.

And perhaps the froofiest follow-up dessert in the world, courtesy of Bobby Boy’s Bakeshop.

After two days of interviewing, it’s definitely time for one of these.

#CFP At the Crossroads: Dunhuang and Its Global Connections (Singapore, January 8-10, 2027), due July 15. Conference seeks to advance new scholarship on Dunhuang as a dynamic node of religious, artistic, and intellectual exchange across Asia and beyond. #silkroad ari.nus.edu.sg/events/dunhu...

Folks, $1.7 billion in entirely unaccountable payouts to bailed-out seditionists is how you buy a private army.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Learning that Zach Bryant song that’s everywhere because I spent today interviewing and it’s time for books and guitar.

It was renamed 统一街 in 1928. Here’s an entry from 彭建新《武汉老街巷》. That’s from a PDF on the 武汉出版社 site; they also offer 王登福主编《江汉史话》 (2004) with more details on bookshops 第五章/文教天地/统一街书局街: www.whcbs.com/Upload/BookR... TOC: www.whcbs.com/Upload/BookR... Author credits: www.whcbs.com/Upload/BookR...

This includes a reference to a booksellers’ street in Hankou 汉口 called 半边街, which has come up in my current research. The street itself no longer exists; has anyone else come across references to it?

Superman telling you all not to buy cryptocurrency.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Saturday night; we can hear the graduation parties rage next door.

The Felon thinks he's Hawkeye, but he is Frank.

Honestly, $@%* this week.

Song dynasty prose made Ming aesthetes so wildly insecure they started jumping around and twisting their literary voices into contortions.

still two noun phrases short of a bingo

Listening to the Afro-Cuban All-Stars for the first time in a decade, wishing there were somewhere to salsa in this town.

If they’re fighting for a dodecahedron, it’s Critical Role, campaigns 2-3.

This place is a pain to heat or cool, but the sunsets can be pretty great. #wsnc

Just a month ago, I had a student say to me, “I know this sounds corny, but, Professor Morse, I believe in you.” And I swore quietly I would move heaven and earth for him and his class.

**wakes up in Mickey Rooney’s basement**

Physician Matilda Evans was born 160 years ago today. Receiving her MD in 1897, she moved to North Carolina, where she became the first Black woman to establish a practice in the state, using the income from treating wealthy patients to treat the poor Black population for free. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

This has been and continues to be the reason we can’t have nice things.

I remember when this movie came out because my younger cousin got to see it, but my parents wouldn’t allow me to. I even remember the tree we were playing around when he told me the plot, and the envy I felt as I stared at the horse barn.

I’m here for this one all damn day.

Finally went back to a #CarolinaFederation meeting yesterday, got right back on the horse, drafted a form letter for community action this afternoon #ncpol #ncdems

Reminder: Susan Collins opposes increasing campaign finance transparency and banning congressional stock trading, while benefiting from millions in dark money spending and owning the eighth most lucrative stock portfolio in Congress. #MostCorrupt2026

Donald Trump does not want us to have another election, that's why he's trying to suppress the vote all across the country. We need to act on the federal level to stop his power grab in its tracks, and that's exactly what I plan to do when I get to Washington.

Apple’s AI email summary would fail its final paper with me

I am no Christian, but this is sin. Sin of national scope. It requires punishment, repentance, and atonement.

My academic mentors still mean the world to me. They still write for me, which means they still believe in me. How in Heaven’s name will I ever repay them for their trust?

I wrote my best poem to date about this ship

Wait - do I understand correctly that the far left has, of all people, AOC in their sights? Surely this is not true?

Methinks the pastor doth protest too much.