EPISODE 4 (dir. Ken Loach): Stuart Hall (Idris Elba) visits Hogwarts and delivers a lecture on prospects for deprivatization under New Labour.

At first glance this seemed purely deranged, but on a second read it seems like the kind of marker you'd want to plant if you anticipated (a) a loss in the tariff litigation followed by (b) a stock market crash.

Three or four times a year I crack open a beverage and trawl through seasonal catalogs.

I've updated a "book wish list" Google doc since the spring of 2008.

(The Halle Butler isn't from a catalog trawl. I spotted it at Type Books in Toronto in August. Is it as good as it looks?)

D.C. folks: Rally for Medicare for All tomorrow morning on Capitol Hill. Organized by the tireless folks at Physicians for a National Health Program, with help from People's Action, NNU, SEIU/CIR, and other allies.

See you and raise you.

Not sure this really fits the prompt, but it is in fact the last photo I took in D.C.

Can't go wrong with Greenwells.

the David Lynch division

Reskeet with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Had to dig in the basement, but here it is.

D.C. folks: On Wednesday at noon, join @beaheroaction.bsky.social, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, and a host of others for a rally in defense of Medicaid. Don't let Congress rip apart the (inadequate) health infrastructure we've got.

Daniel Day-Lewis '85.

Have never been, so these words aren't worth much. But I picked up this novel (from 1980) a couple of years ago. It's absolutely gorgeous, and I can't really think of an English-language analogue.