Bari is so ready for her Icarus closeup

Has a bass player ever been as feted as Mani in Manchester?

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

My annual regret that I don't have the grade range available to me of a chemistry professor or football analyst

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I am reading Larry Niven's Ringworld (1970). Thoughts: I'd forgotten how much eugenics is in this. The Ringworld is cool, endless descriptions of its physics are boring. Novel has horrible pacing, the alien sex stuff hasn't aged particularly well. Niven not very good at characterization or dialogue

Epstein files is a good reminder to never take a photo you wouldn't be comfortable getting released under order from US Congress

Does anyone know the name of this Civil Rights activist who appears in the Eyes on the Prize documentary being interviewed by a reporter. "My freedom is very much entangled with the freedom of every other man. So, I’m fighting for my own freedom here," he remarks. But he is not named in transcripts.

Metropolitan is a Mugwump movie

Nothing to do about the mean reds except wait them out

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

This year's holiday season: intense micro moodiness

Perhaps there is a future in which the libido of Boomer men is no longer relevant

🤢

Bye, Felicia!

My contribution to the discourse is that I’m not sure we want to open up the Pandora’s box of “illegal things people said to me when I was on the job market” Because boy, there are some STORIES

The mise en scene is so innovative tho 🙄

She expects us to believe that a university communicated anything of substance to an unsuccessful job candidate.

🦕(Christmas card/ Edward Gorey; 1925-2000)

This cover goes so hard

This all checks out lol

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

The author recalls a dinner in 2015… “I have replayed every moment from that night in my mind. Every clang of the fork, every Rob-esque digression, every uncomfortable Nick shift in the chair… “Can you believe this boy?” Rob said as we sat down, beaming. Nick smiled uncomfortably, saying nothing.”

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

god bless rob reiner for spinal tap

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

May have hit my rec letter moratorium for the year. Kids, don't ask for or insist on them during finals week!

Hard to argue with how well Brexit is working out for the UK

Stealworkers

I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War. They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children. Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…

Sam Presti, wrecker of souls

/Eminence Front chorus voice "The Emirates Cup"

Executive order creating a Lord High Executioner position for homeboy when?

FIFA decided to have a ceremonial match commemorating Pride Month during the World Cup and it ended up being scheduled for Egypt and Iran. Both countries have complained, with Egypt saying it “categorically reject[s] any activities related to supporting homosexuality during the match.”

mood

Wild that those ratty little DVD sleeves in the mail has led to a cultural oligopoly in our time

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Aztec Camera performing Walk Out to Winter live on Switch in 1983

I've been through the desert on a

In the middle of a real home run derby run of papers actually written by my students. These pleasures still exist here and there

first the CIA funds the Kenyon Review and now this?!?

“Since the mid-90s, a tiny minority has tried to dislodge this conventional understanding of the Citizenship Clause by claiming that the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ excludes the children of unauthorized migrants. That is not how the Reconstruction generation talked about the issue.”

Has anyone started a Flarf-type movement for Chat GPT yet?

Did so in a modified form and the kids dug it

looking for a good book or two on the Great Awakening(s), if anyone’s got recommendations

Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921