Christmas Eve in a church with no heat or electricity — in which our town fathers, two hundred years ago, gathered for the end of the world. (They were disappointed when it continued.)

Funny because this looks just like the old opening credits to Dr. Who. And yet it really is a voyage through time.

Street scene, Manhattan.

A Very Good Boy. (Yanagawa Shigenobu’s cover for The Eight Dog Warriors.)

In response to that op-ed in the WaPo where a Conservative asks, “Wait … Are we the bad guys?” youtu.be/3K1Z-8EvS74?...

Winter at my place.

Performing Dickens with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra! #vso #vermontsymphonyorchestra

North Korea favors these methods in its reeducation camps — I recall reading Pico Iyer’s horrific description.

Night walk. Vermont. Around zero. Some of my favorite weather: so cold that when you take off your gloves, your skin feels like it’s scalded. The forest has become so unearthly cold that it feels like the Earth becomes holy again.

Anti-Woke.

Meet two heroes of our times.

Hey. New guardians of the Met in NY have dropped. (By Jeffrey Gibson, Choctaw / Cherokee.)

One library where they won’t shush you.

Wondering what to do with all that leftover turkey? It’s time to kick back with a cool, refreshing …

Wow. Sucks to be Sophie.

Somber but beautiful Thanksgiving in upstate New York.

I have some suggestions, Mr. Hegseth sir. OPERATION IN AND OUT = Exfiltration of US operatives OPERATION DEEP ROCKET = Anti-submarine missile system (ASW) OPERATION CUM LAUDER = US Marshals posted to quell college protests

For me it’s dumplings but same, buddy, same.

VT Tibetan festival yesterday in Burlington!

“I am His Majesty’s dog at Kew. / Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?” — Alexander Pope

Spotify has done so much over the last decade to make life harder for musicians. Whatever your reason, it’s a great idea to boycott it.

Sometimes a hero is, in fact, just a sandwich.

Vegetable drawer, day after Halloween.

Though to be fair, are we going to trust a complaint about farmers by someone named “Cropp”?

From your mouth to God’s ear.

Never fear: Encyclopédie Brune is on the case.

Amazing thread on the daring heist of Chinese antiquities!

Niiiiiice.

Prank incoming.

Biblical!

Know how you feel, sea serpent. (Headline from 1908.)

So excited: the skies are dreary today. DREARY, people! DREARY! After two and a half months of relentless blue skies and cheerful sun!

Yes! It’s easy to spot all the rhetorical preparations for this move.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

So do we think there’s any substance to the threat that someone’s going to release Mike Johnson’s Grindr profile? Or is it just a troll?

Sorry we had to shut down your government. Luckily, work on the President’s gold ballroom will continue.

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A defining feature of late capitalism.