Would you sit here y/n?

Unfortunately I went to college right before the explosion of the interesting niche seminar but let me see what I can remember

Big day for longtime Chomsky disrespecters but I’m going to be cool about it

You have achieved financial success + professional prestige in your field. Congratulations! The Disgusting Pervert wishes to meet. Accept?

The Trump regime is quite literally the embodiment of "pagan" (in the literal sense of rural) mythology: the cult of the archetypal "authentic" country bumpkin representing abstract "traditional values" of the "good old days" over and against the teeming, dirty, bustling cities and their Christians

if all the women in your life are upset at you, it is very important that you pause and take time to ask yourself: what the hell is wrong with them

What if I taught Proverbs/Ecclesiastes and then Confucius/Laozi as a roughly corresponding pair? Idk, a little too precious maybe

Thank you 2006 Toyota Avalon

Lecture notes for Candide tomorrow

Excellent addition to the bedside browsers shelf

What are some good surprising cover songs

The lies you are about to hear from the regime will corrode your soul just as much as seeing the video of the murder. Prepare yourself.

Folks I’ve seen enough … it’s the weekend

Underrated entry in the weird voice/good song pantheon

Is JD Vance ensouled? is a live question imo

Good morning, we made it

Siduri and the Preacher

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the book of Jonah both end abruptly with one character saying to another “Look at this city. Great, right?”

Actually the Trapper Keeper IS interesting as landmark in the American monetization and branding of the concept of personal orderliness and self discipline

Back on my bullshit, reading posh interwar Oxbridge writer memoirs

Walmart radio has a request line

Don’t forget that today is a high holy day for racists who don’t have government jobs and love complaining

I admit I take some comfort from the fact that he is more tormented by his own inevitable death than anyone who has ever lived

Remembered today the time this summer that two country boys on the public pool deck asked me if they could play some music, and then sat together huddled over an iPhone in respectful silence listening to Zach Bryan’s Pink Skies. Just two bros feeling big feelings together.

Video games, the soda of the mind, bursting with spume and unnatural hues,

I hate to admit it but making everyone sit in a circle makes class go so much better it’s unreal

imagine being the child of exiles in Babylon and seeing your aging parent come in from a day in those foreign fields and hearing them whisper to you in the dark again the old story of the beginning of the world: dear child. you must never forget. our God is a God of rest.

scenes from a meandering path to the office

"noooo annie dillard can't write like that. not allowed. it's too pretty. too poetic" tough shit buster!!!

we have investigated the murder our guy committed and have concluded it’s all good. no worries!

put a little more reverb on that guitar

On the quad

Better at the last possible moment than never

You know how there's an old deranged conspiracy theory that the Vatican and international banking are in cahoots to run the world? Maybe we should do that

Beginning of the semester college poster sale surprisingly legible to the old timer (me). “American Dorm Room” is a durable aesthetic sensibility

Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm might be the great Dark Exurbia masterpiece

Hong Kong surfabilly quartet called Sun Yat-sen and the Bandits

I don’t think JD Vance would be bothered about being excommunicated. He’d just publicly join Doug Wilson’s church, or maybe some Paula White affiliated NAR thing depending on which way the wind was blowing. Or whether or not It had Happened yet.

It’s interesting how much of English apologetics is “I know it all sounds a bit silly but Christianity does make a certain type of sense if you look at it a certain way” and American apologetics is “Christianity is obviously true if you THINK about it with your BRAIN for one second.”

Dickens getting paid by the owner of the local rag and bone shop to put a big chapter about crap into Bleak House

Carving the swastikas into their own foreheads to trigger the libs

This zoomer YouTuber thing where they don’t pronounce “t” sounds at the end of sentences … I don’t like it

Is there a distinctive Catholic clergy version of evangelical “sermon voice” (in English, or any other language)?

Got in late from vacation last night and now I’m doing the first syllabus day on 3 hours of sleep looking like a thrice divorced literature professor from the 90s. Just need a soft pack of Camels in my shirt pocket to complete the look.

It’s funny how many English writers of this era kind of thought Shakespeare was bullshit

I was a very late Cold War kid — history ended for the first time when I was around ten — so I’m still always a little surprised at every otherwise normal elder GenXer who has a Pavlovian psychotic break when they hear the word “socialist.”

Good morning from the edge of the desiccated empire

This “war on the opioid epidemic” foreign policy is stupid piss baby bullshit that I have never heard any sympathy expressed for by anyone ever