the slightly miserable weather means Mount Teide, Tenerife, is capped in snow. We’re at the same latitude, more or less, as Miami

I wrote a dissertation chapter about the conquest of these islands having only been here for a few days. what a treat to finally see it all, see all the old indigenous place names still on the road signs and the ruins.

a non-windshield shot of Los Roques

YOU have been invited to the parliament of mediterranean smoking abuelos

YOU have been invited to the parliament of mediterranean smoking abuelos

Last full (and rainy) day on La Gomera

Sonchus hierrensis | a tree dandelion that can get up to ten feet tall

pottery experts on archaeological sites are like wizards to me. they look at a pebble and get it to the decade.

you don't choose tree life, tree life chooses you

Sonchus hierrensis | a tree dandelion that can get up to ten feet tall

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

Last full (and rainy) day on La Gomera

pork cheek is an elite cut of meat

there has to be a medium sized spoon in Spain, but i’ve never seen one.

there has to be a medium sized spoon in Spain, but i’ve never seen one.

Today I learned that the pokey non-friend genus Smilax also grows in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands. I had just assumed it was a North American genus. S. aspera | Mediterranean smilax

i am on a cloud forest-covered island (La Gomera) with 22k people on it. pretty much the dream

I DEMAND ALL IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES INCLUDE LOCAL GENUS TRIBUTES

I DEMAND ALL IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINES INCLUDE LOCAL GENUS TRIBUTES

Aquamanile in the form of a #Unicorn c. 1425–50, #German (Met Museum) For handwashing at table. Poured through a flap at the top, the water was later dispensed through the spigot in the unicorn’s chest. Some stylish hand hygiene here.

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i am on a cloud forest-covered island (La Gomera) with 22k people on it. pretty much the dream

here, kid. go buy yourself a jnco.

here, kid. go buy yourself a jnco.

Gran Canaria indigenous granary, indigenous tombs

mojo picón is such a good condiment. move over, romanesco, there’s a new red sauce in town.

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

logging on like

Gran Canaria indigenous granary, indigenous tombs

it is uncharacteristically rainy and dreary in Gran Canaria, at least at altitude, but here‘s a small sampling of landscape pictures.

maybe the only landscape photo I have ever taken that conveys the grandeur of what I was looking at. Huascaran, Peru

maybe the only landscape photo I have ever taken that conveys the grandeur of what I was looking at. Huascaran, Peru

it is uncharacteristically rainy and dreary in Gran Canaria, at least at altitude, but here‘s a small sampling of landscape pictures.

the little cloud-swept village is getting (for them) a biblical amount of rain, and so the roof in our cool subterranean apartment is leaking. Also, my son threw up. youtu.be/PJ9IaplRrm4?...

in a high mountain village where a gusty wind is blowing clouds down the street

I bless the rains, etc.

sometimes I post about the unspeakable beauty I find in imagining a past so different from our present. and sometimes you read about women competitively swallowing live fish

WHOEVER LETS THEIR DOG SHIT IN MY SIDE YARD WILL SEE ME IN THE SMALL CLAIMS COURT OF HELL

the adjective “mint” implies there are other juleps

Late Autumn in Ichikawa — Kawase Hasui, 1930

I have a joke about colonia latin america, but I do not comply

a full 20% of you are excited about the demolition of a CVS in St. Paul, which is also impossible

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

my longstanding sense that baseball players have bad vibes is confirmed.

conscientiously objecting to leprechaun traps