If you are inhibited playing with the toys you have now, you will not play differently with new toys. —Kenny Werner, 'Effortless Mastery'

wow

the Men's Skeleton competition isn't what I hoped

mid-snowstorm romp

family plot

sitcom about the surviving son of the pharaoh who drowned in the Parting of the Red Sea: Suddenly Suzerain

Please! Mr. Leonard was my father. Call me DOCTOR Leonard. After 8.5 years, many courses taken and taught, and a 380-page, 100,000-word dissertation, I passed my dissertation defense. I'll graduate from Boston University with a PhD in English literature. Will also answer to Dr. Lit Nerd.

gig economy

One last all-nighter, for old times' sake.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

vulture mantra

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

when life hands you bats, make batatouille

don't we all

eBay’s been writing poetry again

The Excitement Of Touching The Eccentric Woodcock On The Back

Honestly the most outrageous new change at Cracker Barrel is that, when you fail at the peg game, it says there's "no reason to be embarrassed" instead of calling you an "eg-no-ra-moose." Our country is in tatters

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

or your urn

it was the becestershire of sauces, it was the worcestershire of sauces

I know her!!! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/23/a...

become ungovernable

snaps from today's 50-mile hot trot

dissolving a caffeine pill into decaf coffee, unsure what it's a metaphor for

inside you there are two rabbits ...eight rabbits .......twenty-seven rabbits

@kellylink.bsky.social Just glimpsed the Book of Love "key that is sometimes a knife" in Maya Deren's film Meshes of the Afternoon

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

title for my death-metal album

my favorite recent rounds of heavyweight Letter Box-ing

incomparable

Salman Akhtar, 'In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst' (2024)

Ginger snap.

It is my opinion that apples taste best when their farms are crewed by very small skeletons

2050s TV show idea: Goldenmore Girls

Heads up, Massachusetts! If you voted early by mail, check your ballot status online. Mine said "Not returned" even though I mailed it over two weeks ago. I had to go in person and they had me fill out a new ballot. Make sure your vote counts! www.sec.state.ma.us/WhereDoIVote...

prescient Pogo (June 3, 1952)

itsyphus www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWA...

Make It Newt! —Eggsra Pond

Studies on Horsesteria: Pokey on the Analytic Couch

Big Brother: cooking competition show for cauldrons of stew

Translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass.

Didja hear about the musician who bought a wooden whistle but it wooden whistle so he bought a steel whistle but it steel wooden whistle so he bought a lead whistle but it steel wooden lead him whistle so then he bought a copper whistle from a cop but the coppers copper steel wooden lead him whistle

People sometimes ask me what you need to know to write a fantasy novel, and it's this. It's just this. You can print it out.

incredible book cover

I'm at the algae I'm at the cyanobacterium I'm at the combination algae and cyanobacterium newatlas.com/biology/life...

Booleanaire: a person with more than zero dollars