I had my new key and the lock of my office door altered, having lost my key the other day, which vexed me.

Up early and to look on my works, and find my house to go on apace.

The only thing I have to add to this discourse is that albeit is one of those words you really need to have a reason to use, and I'm not sure it's justified here

Bunny

I was wondering what Lewis Lapham would have said about the AI-in-college discourse, and then I realized he already said it back in 2018: "[Tech] is increasingly the thing that thinks and the man reduced to the state of a thing" www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-mind/...

maybe my favorite thing ever published at polygon by @cassmarshall.bsky.social - cass forever, hayseed forever www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18...

Cherry tree through binoculars as a storm approaches

Half the people here just got out of the same showing of Sinners?

The internet used to be fun: a Millennial story

Pleased to announce that over the weekend I added “Noun” to my small collection of antique-store framed leaves from this c. 1810 (?) book

Why isn't there an emoji that's lying on its side like this

Rewatching White Lotus season 2 and “Anche io sono gay… Qua? Siamo tutti gay” really holds up

Home with Sir W. Batten, and there eat some boiled great oysters, and so home, and while I was at dinner with my wife I was sick, and was forced to vomit up my oysters again, and then I was well.

We’re thrilled to be partnering with ⁦‪Lapham’s Quarterly‬⁩ to become the new steward for the celebrated journal of history and ideas founded by the late Lewis H. Lapham. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/b... via @nytimes.com @bardcollege.bsky.social

Happy to announce I've already completed all my New Year's resolutions

"The boys being back in town seems like a very urgent matter. I like to imagine the narrator running through the streets of town like Paul Revere letting everyone know about their arrival." www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMu...

As a Central NY resident I do think the broader Great Lakes region/Erie Canal path is poised for a new golden age as the climate crisis worsens, but that definitely doesn't mean we're immune to terrifying new weather patterns www.syracuse.com/outdoors/202...

At the office from morning till night putting of papers in order, that so I may have my office in an orderly condition. I took much pains in sorting and folding of papers.

Now THIS is news www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Patch of grasses, Albrecht Dürer, 1503. (Albertina, Vienna)

Honestly really sad this isn’t a finger board.

Thinking about her (the official Chicago Manual of Style skateboard) chicagomanual.threadless.com/designs/cmos...

This Daily News headline from 1952, which I came across this week while doing a fact-check, is going to haunt me forever. Were people walking around pronouncing it "bikinny" in the '50s?!

I'm once again asking for a button that randomly assigns defensive points in Learned League

It was interesting to see the Bob Dylan villain origin story

The Abbott Elementary/Always Sunny crossover was good

Speedrunning Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo for next week’s book club

X axis: Courtney Barnett <----> Waxahatchee Y axis: Kurt Vile <----> MJ Lenderman

My New Year’s resolutions are to see more movies in the theater and finish Baldur’s Gate 3

One thing I loved about Nosferatu (2024) is that none of the prominently featured cats in it were harmed in any way

Ice season is here

This joke post I saw on Reddit is actually a really great illustration of the importance of starting your Y axis at 0

With Mr. Swan to a tavern, where we had enough of his old simple religious talk, and he is still a coxcomb in these things as he ever was, and tells me he is setting out a book called “The unlawfull use of lawfull things;” but a very simple fellow he is, and so I leave him.

In 1951, Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma sought (and was, apparently, granted) consent to reprint this colorful tirade against "Jingle Bells" in the Congressional Record

Sam!!!

This was the only hair in 2004

While cleaning up my desktop I came across this nice bookplate I screenshotted from some long-forgotten book back in August

Incredibly rude to sell these at the antique store

Some art I saw while trying to find my friend’s event in a converted corset factory

Learned League should have a randomize points option

A commute playlist staple, back when commutes were a thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiwc...

Page the library cat works weekends

Are there other bassoon shows besides Schitt’s Creek and Somebody Somewhere? Specifically shows about moving to a small town that very prominently feature a bassoon in the soundtrack

Working on a very large portrait of my cat

goofy and somewhat ashamed realization that Boethius calls his interlocutor Philosophy, not -- despite what you'd think from reading so much of the scholarship -- "Lady Philosophy." Philosophy is a she, but she's just that: Philosophy. from Moreschini's 2nd ed,

So many small colleges closing means a lot of fabulous architecture is in danger: Walter Nestch's Louis Jefferson Long Library in Aurora, NY mascontext.com/observations... // this image by Thomas R. Schiff shows the fabulous tent-like roof

Finally had the time to make it to a figure drawing session after several months away

I went for a walk in the park today and got absolutely mobbed by adorable ducks (who promptly turned tail and headed back to the water when they realized I had no food)

Came very close to forgetting to submit match 1 of my first season back at @learnedleague.bsky.social after getting suspended for missing too many days. Not very auspicious