Dense early-spring fog on Clearwater Beach

Thomas CAUGHT doubtmaxxing as Christ stuns death-cels

paradoxically I think Heathcliff is the only human in Muppet Wuthering Heights. Cathy is of course Ms Piggy. Kermit is Edgar Linton.

Since I heard Penn State launched a course called "One Book Slowly" this year (Eric Hayot is teaching Madame Bovary) I can't stop thinking about it

Yes! I’m sorry, Benedict would be absolutely riddled with syphilis 😆

Listen to my Duluth cousin-in-law Kerry explain curling! The US silver medalists come from her club youtu.be/ocMVQ2VecKE?...

Student in class today asked me what the difference was between a British pound in money versus in weight, which meant I got to quote Nate Bargatze as George Washington: "Nobody knows..."

What’s colonialism got to do with it? Tracing the connections from sugar cane to power outages to ICE.

I’m sure it’s right that the American pop-culture/soft power nexus is collapsing abroad, and was always v complicated to begin with But “the culture” is still just as strong a force in the US: the Bad Bunny halftime show lit up the board in every quadrant & was a true event

🧵The train drama you didn’t know you needed this morning For a stupid company they last a long time!

It's also really important to realize that a draw-down of 700 troops has left more than 2000 still here. They vastly outnumber the total local police force, and they are terrorizing with impunity, even though the mainstream media has largely moved on.

Tina Brown’s media-gossip takedown of Jeff Bezos is entertaining 🍸

Protect Rümeysa! Even more protection needed, like a personal bodyguard from the ACLU

I don’t understand a word Radiohead says yet still listen to them. See, it’s easy.

I've waited a long time to be able to say this, but we're hiring a full-time Film Critic for @avclub.com! Details are in the job listing, but you should send application materials to [email protected] www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

This clever, lively book traces a lineage from Rokeya Hossain’s 1924 feminist novel “Padmarag” to her 1922 Bengali translation of Marie Corelli’s critique of Victorian patriarchy in “The Murder of Delicia” — back to Dickens’s wicked divorce from his wife Catherine

Claude as the hippie flower child in AI equivalent of Haight-Ashbury Gemini as depressive English student with Eeyore-like moods about not being good enough ChatGPT as a slick-talking and slightly scammy "young entrepreneur" Grok as sad teenager locked up in house w/ abusive Nazi dad

Trying to stop the internet before I figure out who Jake and Logan Paul are 😓

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

“A living community produces new art”: I’m hearing it more and more

Do we know WHO got actually married in the middle of that halftime show? 😅😅

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Wrote a little about Patchwork, the new graphic biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans. kasiareads.com/2026/02/08/p...

every year i make a 'super bowl advertisement' bingo card for my friends. in these trying times,,, here's this year's:

Cold night in Illinois: hot couple onscreen

I love all these insane kids at the Olympics and I love that America sends a crew of weirdos with dyed hair and unusual piercings and most of them are immigrants

Ah, the weekende -- tyme to R.O.C.K. ! R = inefficentlye approachinge housholde taskes O = readinge the saddest poetrye imaginable C = tellinge the catte he ys a lovelye litel guy K = lookinge solemnlye at the trees yn a parke while sippinge red zinger tea out of a thermos

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Another Olympic thought: some odd spelling choices on a building in Cortina led me to this site about the Ladino dialect islands of the Dolomites Do I treat the Olympics as a travelogue? Maybe www.guidedolomiti.com/en/dolomite-...

one thing about the Olympics is that all the athletes in the village are having a phenomenal amount of sex and so I for one think it’s only fair that Vance got to fly his own sofa over

It was ultimately a different scenario, but this still feels vaguely reminiscent of what led to the creation of the @thebaltimorebanner.com, which is less than 5 years old and already has a Pulitzer.

Olympic opening ceremony trivial thoughts: 1) American white toggle coats and nordic snowflake designs less aggressively preppy than usual 👍👍 2) That cute hat could sell 3) Mariah’s face did not move 😔 4) cheery enormous abstract costumes were neat: mountains vs city = big dance-mime energy

Iron Bank of Bravos probably one of the more progressive forces in Westeros tbh. No one else is incentivized to care as much about cross-regime prosperity, stability, and good governance.

Do this at C19

Nicholas Hoult, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Coon, Harrison Ford, Walton Goggins, Timothy Olyphant, Margo Martindale, Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen, Stephanie Beatriz, Lin Manuel Miranda, I feel like I could do this all day.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

Feels like a setup

it’s true that manic consumer culture buying sprees probably point to a gnawing fear of engaging the spirit, whose demands are rigorous and whose rewards would require us to acknowledge our eternal indwelling self-worth, but on the other hand did you see how much cool stuff I have

If you give a toddler a ☕️ joke, he will wake up every morning while his mother is drinking coffee and wait to yell in your face: “Cappuccino? More like Capuccin-yes!” It’s really hard giving birth to someone with the same sense of humor.

Amid all the bad journalism industry news, sharing this cool thing I’m doing with smart people at my job:

We need a word for something that “is annoying but works pretty well at scale” Like most political campaigns, many other public appeals & ads Social media constantly forcing one to accept that cringe is necessary for political change

I love calling it the Strong Accountability Option! 😂😂😂

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

He’s loved Oklahoma since he was little and learned that the National Weather Center is there. We said if he got a big scholarship he could go (figuring it was a long shot). Well folks I opened the mail today and he got a big scholarship

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

😳 Dang!

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Feels like we're head into a new Era of Brontë* *suffering enormously but then later enjoying the cataclysmic downfalls of our enemies