Chris Ames
@camesxyz.bsky.social
Higher Ed, literature and contemporary fiction, jazz and blues—cats, too. Progressive Dem politics and human rights. Happy to live in the beautiful Hudson Valley.
I left Twitter because I was so tired of having Musk’s tweets foisted on me. Having read them, however, I can attest that Oates’s assessment is valid.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I left Twitter because I was so tired of having Musk’s tweets foisted on me. Having read them, however, I can attest that Oates’s assessment is valid.
14! She looks good! I had a cat who had a front leg amputated at about age two (she had never had feeling in it). Took her a few days for the incision to heal, then she moved her other front leg to the middle when she sat, and enjoyed another twenty years as a tripod. Best to Athena.
October 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
14! She looks good! I had a cat who had a front leg amputated at about age two (she had never had feeling in it). Took her a few days for the incision to heal, then she moved her other front leg to the middle when she sat, and enjoyed another twenty years as a tripod. Best to Athena.
Fair point. I guess I was thinking of the baseball of my youth (era of Gibson, Drysdale, Koufax, Palmer, Seaver, etc). Still in 1988 (height of Eckersley?), there were 511 complete games in the mlb season. This year, there were, apparently, 12.
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fair point. I guess I was thinking of the baseball of my youth (era of Gibson, Drysdale, Koufax, Palmer, Seaver, etc). Still in 1988 (height of Eckersley?), there were 511 complete games in the mlb season. This year, there were, apparently, 12.
Sorry to see they’re taking him out. Looked just fine in the eighth. But that’s baseball these days.
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Sorry to see they’re taking him out. Looked just fine in the eighth. But that’s baseball these days.
Now here’s a useful stat that shows who’s hot going into the playoffs. Remarkable that the Mets lost their slot to another team under .500 in that period.
September 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now here’s a useful stat that shows who’s hot going into the playoffs. Remarkable that the Mets lost their slot to another team under .500 in that period.
Looks like she’s being very good about the cone.
August 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Looks like she’s being very good about the cone.
This argument about “foundational to Western law and morality “ always ignores the several commandments that are explicitly about religious behavior: the sabbath, blasphemy, and what God you worship.
August 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This argument about “foundational to Western law and morality “ always ignores the several commandments that are explicitly about religious behavior: the sabbath, blasphemy, and what God you worship.
Lovely quotation, but the source is from a Rev. Melvill sermon. It is often misattributed to the author of Moby Dick. Herman Melville did actually hear the Rev Melvill preach and wrote about that. melvilliana.blogspot.com/2011/09/fine...
the finest thing Herman Melville never said
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and 19th century American literature.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Lovely quotation, but the source is from a Rev. Melvill sermon. It is often misattributed to the author of Moby Dick. Herman Melville did actually hear the Rev Melvill preach and wrote about that. melvilliana.blogspot.com/2011/09/fine...
Of course this isn’t real. Focus on the real stuff and use some sense. I knew it was fake the moment I read it.
July 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Of course this isn’t real. Focus on the real stuff and use some sense. I knew it was fake the moment I read it.
The first quotation is from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. It is often misattributed to Whitman. suebrewton.com?s=Whitman&su...
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July 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The first quotation is from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. It is often misattributed to Whitman. suebrewton.com?s=Whitman&su...
Exactly. I don’t think the Guardian article really recognizes that.
June 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Exactly. I don’t think the Guardian article really recognizes that.
I don’t find the article persuasive. AI shortcuts are pervasive in high school as well as American HE, which doesn’t have exam uniformity or super high stakes exams. AI for schoolwork offers easy “solutions” and is relentlessly advertised to students, while academia’s response to it has been mixed.
June 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I don’t find the article persuasive. AI shortcuts are pervasive in high school as well as American HE, which doesn’t have exam uniformity or super high stakes exams. AI for schoolwork offers easy “solutions” and is relentlessly advertised to students, while academia’s response to it has been mixed.
Falsely attributed quotations are my pet peeve, and I do what I can to correct them nicely & send folks to the Quote Investigator or other legit sites. But I find it bizarre that some people keep pushing the false attributions even after they are pointed out!
June 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Falsely attributed quotations are my pet peeve, and I do what I can to correct them nicely & send folks to the Quote Investigator or other legit sites. But I find it bizarre that some people keep pushing the false attributions even after they are pointed out!
Read my first Saramago novel a few weeks ago, while visiting Lisbon. Very innovative and good(The Death of Ricardo Reis).
June 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Read my first Saramago novel a few weeks ago, while visiting Lisbon. Very innovative and good(The Death of Ricardo Reis).
Does the cat have six toes? That’s why we named our cat Hemingway.
June 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Does the cat have six toes? That’s why we named our cat Hemingway.
And not to be “that guy” always pointing out the misattribution, here’s one of my favorite Whitman lines, “A child said to me, ‘What is the grass?” . . . I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.” From Leaves of Grass.
May 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And not to be “that guy” always pointing out the misattribution, here’s one of my favorite Whitman lines, “A child said to me, ‘What is the grass?” . . . I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.” From Leaves of Grass.
I love Whitman. But both the sunshine quotation and the curious not judgmental attribution made famous by Ted Lasso are not from Whitman. See this detailed analysis of how the sunshine quote got misattributed: quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/05/s...
Quote Origin: Keep Your Face Always Towards the Sunshine, and the Shadows Will Fall Behind You – Quote Investigator®
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May 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I love Whitman. But both the sunshine quotation and the curious not judgmental attribution made famous by Ted Lasso are not from Whitman. See this detailed analysis of how the sunshine quote got misattributed: quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/05/s...
My own opinionated take: lots of great artists but just a handful where their 1976 album is one of their best: Eagles, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder.
May 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My own opinionated take: lots of great artists but just a handful where their 1976 album is one of their best: Eagles, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder.
Died just this last year. I was very fortunate to have met him and talked with him along with his friends of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
May 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Died just this last year. I was very fortunate to have met him and talked with him along with his friends of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.