Booooo, was here probably once or twice a month when watching my little kids in my PhD program

So many of Chicago’s community areas were named after other places (unoriginal), random historical figures (boring), or real estate developers (yuck). And then there’s Greater Grand Crossing, so named because it grew around the most insane railroad junction the world ever saw.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

denmark rocks bc theyll notice that only 80% of their population is currently laying in the grass in a park with a six pack of 8% beer reading a book while on a 3 hour lunch break from work making $50/hr selling croissants at a cafe called GOBBO or FLUUZ and their government will spring into action

‘The search for rational explanations of coastal phenomena in the Hellenistic period prompts the theorisation of time on a deeper scale.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just spent some time learning how to contribute to an open source, crowd-sourced map of benches (added my first one!), so yes I do in fact have an important writing deadline soon

Any diagnosis of the problem that doesn’t clearly see the “lecturers” doing the grunt work as the *colleagues* whose research careers are already being sacrificed on the altar of Capital isn’t going to identify a path forward for the future of the academic humanities /5

Get off the shed, Theodore Roethke

Very interesting how little Esther figures into the volume Understanding the Hebrew Bible: Essays by Members of the Society for Old Testament Study, published by OUP this year as an authoritative treatment intended to "to update scholars and students on the current state of the study" of the HB

A Brothers Grimm sighting: always the sign of a good day, at least for philologists

Worshipping reality in general at the empty monopteros inside @stabiberlin.bsky.social

Yahweh as sun god confirmed (Stockholm, Storkyrkan)

There are some beautiful book shrines at the NLI, but this new one is really wonderful. Here's one that I saw a few months ago:

Das große Schnitzel am Himmel

the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life.

The only part of the writing process that I always enjoy & which makes me feel like I am doing something worthwhile, is slouching towards the "big idea" after writing pages of notes & ideas and false outlines. Would it be better for me to get to it more quickly? My supervisor would probably agree...

Sailor Regrets Getting Married To The Sea So Young theonion.com/sailor-...

9th June is the feast of St Colum Cille (Columba). Here's a portrait of St Colum Cille with mitre & crozier. Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. B. 514; Life of St Colum Cille compiled for Maghnus Ó Colum Cille Domhnaill; 1526 -1575; Ireland; f.[III]v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Sometimes I think I should have been a medievalist. Our son's middle name is Columba after Colmcille. His other middle name is Bloom, after Leopold Bloom; sometimes I think I should have been...

Interesting things afoot: preparing for ISBL/EABS in Uppsala this June. So, were ancient paperbacks a thing?

(not a mountain top, but still)

It really is quite a place to work @stabiberlin.bsky.social

account for those repeated whaling disasters

Archaeologists Uncover Embarrassing Egyptian Rockabilly Dynasty

SIGINT #5966 from Zuma (EXPERIMENTAL) 1. Liminal Drones 2. Retrograde Hangar 3. Heat Dome Knoll

Transmission #356 from NROL-111 (TOP SECRET) 1. Astromycological Artifacts 2. Lifeless Relics 3. Darkness Silo

Fred Durst begins, immediately abandons, 60 day juice cleanse Tumblr (2013)

my local mcdonalds is flying its flags at half mast for the pope's death

Cold mad father

None of the people in this picture are having fun in the pool

So. Much. Win in this rag and bone shop of the heart

It's their best

Forging in the smithy of the soul slaps

Seeing news that "Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index" is down more than it has been since 1997, and I'm thinking, wow, it's crazy that we're seeing 10 year lows in this market

Translating Infinite Jest Borges-Style and the only change being Dept of Hitler Studies > Program in Ancient Forensic Facial Reconstruction

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

Washington Park is top five greatest things in Chicago

He typed “make her real” into a computer

constantly thinking about this ominous sticky note drawing i saw in a boba shop

New folder 3/28/25

Herzlichen Glückswunsch zum Gehaltstag

Trying to write but my mind is on brick gothic

Das Verb "kündigen" heißt "cancel" auf Englisch, und natürlich heißt "ankündigen" in etwa "not cancel"

Coming up with a coherent idea that has a certain gravitational weight to it as I'm writing gives me such a rush that I have to force myself to not close my document and my books and go for a walk outside, thereby ruining any momentum I finally had achieved

There is an academic job market / labor mobility if you're a tenured prof at an Ivy. The rest of us will have to suffer the end of the American university system as we know it.

Every night I look over at this thing on the wall and draw with my mind a little orange polygon and tell myself, I could work at least 5 more hours, and in saecula saeculorum

Spotted a (former) Reichsadler in the wild