Ben Wurgaft
@benwurgaft.bsky.social
writer, historian, appetite!
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
in fruitcake production, full family mobilization
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
in fruitcake production, full family mobilization
Spotted in the wild at Curio Spices, Cambridge, MA
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Spotted in the wild at Curio Spices, Cambridge, MA
Its Blake Friday! You know, when William Blake’s birthday falls on a Friday? Anyway here are his Toeses of Moses:
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Its Blake Friday! You know, when William Blake’s birthday falls on a Friday? Anyway here are his Toeses of Moses:
Best thing I ever did in the History dept. at Berkeley is spend hundreds of their dollars at Kermit Lynch Wine (for a conference)
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Best thing I ever did in the History dept. at Berkeley is spend hundreds of their dollars at Kermit Lynch Wine (for a conference)
I’m going to a Thanksgiving hosted by a fellow food writer but I expect the real star of the weekend will be reading, starting with @martin65.bsky.social’s Dogwitch
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I’m going to a Thanksgiving hosted by a fellow food writer but I expect the real star of the weekend will be reading, starting with @martin65.bsky.social’s Dogwitch
this particular gloaming also features cookies
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
this particular gloaming also features cookies
Loafing in the gloaming
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Loafing in the gloaming
a couple weeks after roast and the coffee went all dialectical on me
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
a couple weeks after roast and the coffee went all dialectical on me
Papadum preach! (I’ve been losing sleep)
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Papadum preach! (I’ve been losing sleep)
Look, I never felt much need for campus security, as your fellow Jew, but I also wasn’t invading other people’s dorm rooms and claiming their ramen packets as my own National cuisine.
October 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Look, I never felt much need for campus security, as your fellow Jew, but I also wasn’t invading other people’s dorm rooms and claiming their ramen packets as my own National cuisine.
And on the other side of the world
October 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
And on the other side of the world
Asked my Mom if I ever graduate from being ”Ben-Chan” and she said “absolutely not.”
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Asked my Mom if I ever graduate from being ”Ben-Chan” and she said “absolutely not.”
A trained falcon, at the train station, trainer in her train.
October 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A trained falcon, at the train station, trainer in her train.
It’s a-me, eki-ben
October 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It’s a-me, eki-ben
Its arrival a great pleasure: cc @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social @elisabethnicula.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Its arrival a great pleasure: cc @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social @elisabethnicula.bsky.social
This summer I brought @nathankhensley.bsky.social's Action Without Hope to one of the most naturally beautiful places I go each year, on the intuition that this is where you should read books in the environmental humanities. This is about Nathan’s excellent book and my questionable intuition.
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This summer I brought @nathankhensley.bsky.social's Action Without Hope to one of the most naturally beautiful places I go each year, on the intuition that this is where you should read books in the environmental humanities. This is about Nathan’s excellent book and my questionable intuition.
Cute felt, might delete later
September 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Cute felt, might delete later
“I don’t want any ice!”
- The Marx Brothers’ “Horsefeathers,”surprisingly relevant
- The Marx Brothers’ “Horsefeathers,”surprisingly relevant
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“I don’t want any ice!”
- The Marx Brothers’ “Horsefeathers,”surprisingly relevant
- The Marx Brothers’ “Horsefeathers,”surprisingly relevant
This Klint is, shall we say, Hilma Af
August 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This Klint is, shall we say, Hilma Af
And let us not forget the qualities she ascribed to plants:
August 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And let us not forget the qualities she ascribed to plants:
late summer thoughts
August 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
late summer thoughts
He was full of words, and I don’t know what to say. Tom Lehrer gave me language in a serious, playful way when I was little, listening to LPs my parents must have gotten years before my birth.
July 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
He was full of words, and I don’t know what to say. Tom Lehrer gave me language in a serious, playful way when I was little, listening to LPs my parents must have gotten years before my birth.
I am far from cherished objects, but I am in front of a cherished lake. Thinking of you.
July 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am far from cherished objects, but I am in front of a cherished lake. Thinking of you.
But then also a Giacometti tree like so
July 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
But then also a Giacometti tree like so