I imagine it was extremely disturbing

I’m maxxmaxxing

Student came up to me yesterday and asked if we were studying MACBETH that day because he really likes it. So. Yeah.

This is legitimately shocking censorship by state media

Just found out the STRANGER THINGS creators, the Duffer Bros, grew up in the same time and place as me (80s/90s Durham NC) so when I felt they put my childhood on screen they literally put my actual childhood on screen.

Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced

Gave a student who loved JANE EYRE a copy of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and she was shocked by its meanness and brutality. Says something about the power of that novel that it can still rattle us all these ages later.

it is a gift

Every Winter Olympic sport was invented by a drunk guy with a death wish, except curling, which was invented by a drunk guy with a tiny broom.

This is blackout poetry to me

Student is wearing a Harley Quinn style outfit for a Valentine’s show and she called me “Mistah G” and I have truly entered my villain era.

My boring AI prediction is that it is here to stay but also that it’s not going to get much better—the LLMs and generative AIs are near their peak in terms of what they can do.

Rest in peace, James Van Der Beek. This one hurts quite a bit. Thanks for the teenage angst and reminding me to laugh at myself sometimes. My obit: www.slashfilm.com/2099082/jame...

“Let the heavens fall, though justice be done.”

We spent a good chunk of the teens arguing online that children should never be noisy in restaurants and public spaces, and now every child in restaurants and public spaces is quietly rotting their brains with an iPad. Good job, us.

So Texas is proposing a required reading list for all grades and the choices are overall pretty good, if overly Western-centric, but I also can’t imagine getting through all of them in a single year.

MFE I read a NYT columnist on education

We should also have the Autumn Olympics: Competitive Apple Bobbing, Trick-or-Treating, Jack O’Lantern Carving, Hay Rides, and Sighing Contentedly and Drinking Coffee on a Couch While Wearing a Sweater.

Macbeth: SHIT

NFL, 2nd Amendment Rights, State Sovereignty, the list goes on.

what a shot

El Mal Conejo

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Never been to either Boston or Seattle and have no dog in this Super Bowl fight, so I will be rooting for the Bears offensive line to suddenly appear with folding chairs.

If you write a book with AI and it makes bank, you can be sure it’s only a matter of time before OpenAI or Microsoft or whoever comes for a chunk of the paycheck.

I would prefer it if we had fewer bosses altogether, boy or girl, because an exceedingly few humans are good at leading others. Like, astonishingly few.

I rarely do this, but I’m hoping I maybe have enough of a following here that someone can help: I need to get in contact with Donkey Kong. It’s urgent

Love when media elites do the whole “we’re all complicit” dance and it’s like, no, we’re not, it’s just you.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Un perro caliente por favor

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The Great Tolkien Reread continues with "Three is Company", "A Short Cut to Mushrooms", and "A Conspiracy Unmasked." In which the hobbits make their way to the edge of the Shire, the Black Riders appear, and we discuss Tolkien's unique use of foresight. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

As plenty of others have noted, one striking thing the Epstein files reveal is just an extraordinary level of moral rot among elites, even if you assume most of his eager friendly correspondents were not directly involved in his crimes.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

I think he is actually Good Bunny

LRT: Wiggly, wiggly against the dying of the Piggly

do not go piggly into that good wiggly

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Local columnist on the context of Dems flipping a deep red Tarrant County district last night www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-...

The time has come for Chibi Grendel.

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points. How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:

Are shortened attention spans a problem? Yes. Have students always skimped on the reading/watching/et al? Yes.

I think GLASS ONION is the weakest of the Knives Out movies, but it’s spot on in its observation that the elite cabal who vacation together on a tropical island and commit crimes are mostly a bunch of idiots deep down.

Trump, Chomsky, doesn’t matter who, if you’re in contact with a known pedophile and sex trafficker, you’re a bad person.

“Death in its modern guise is often cruel instead of impartial, and unlike its medieval counterpart it offers no suggestion of redemption.” —Beatrice Radden Keefe on the Gothic

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds