i love Chicago

I miss Murray Mednick and now I always will. Thanks for your kind words and for being a mensch when it mattered.

For some reason this just makes me a little bit happy: www.facebook.com/sheldon.smit...

something other (somethingother.blog/category/cha...) contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...

Imagine this: www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!

I'll be appearing here: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/somet... on Monday 14 July. I'll be reading something which might be called poetry. It's not very long. This event is in the east end of London, very near where I used to live. I think I'd be delighted to see you there.

Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all our heroes in green!

Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

1 of many for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow loveourouse.org/rights-of-ri...

1 of many for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind

1 of many for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor www.mylondon.news/news/local-n...

I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...

"The 21 activists who were arrested formed a circle on the marble floor and staged a sit-in to protest the Trump-Vance administration’s cuts to USAID and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and Congress’s failure to protect foreign aid programs."

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

This message from Eric Sevareid (from 1977) blew my socks off. youtu.be/l-1b9V1dI44?...

This found on X a lovely exchange by two men on opposite sides of the "aisle" posted by Hague after the recent death of Prescott twitter.com/WilliamJHagu... I think it is totally worth the watch . . . also jolly

excerpts from our new performance: vimeo.com/1025713180?s...

Another book that wrecks me on every page. It’s so brilliant.

open.substack.com/pub/longplay... This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?