I used to dress in my business clothes on airplanes, but back then the seats were wider and you had a lot more leg room, so you could actually reach your destination ready to hit the office straight from the airport. Would not try that today!

Vanity Fair is so funny!

Oh, no! Take care of yourself!

I have heard her discuss her choices in translating the Odyssey. She is just amazing--clear, and funny, and insightful, and she had cool powerpoints with pictures from Greek vases and mosaics like paper cutouts to illustrate her points.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one recognizing some parallels between modern tech and science and medicine in the early 20th century. A little less move fast and break things and a little more IRBs.

It's dreadful. I feel frustrated for you, but also, arts reporting is just dying. The arts too. Art schools and programs in the arts and humanities are shutting down. STEM is devouring the world and trying to kill the arts in their wake. We are in a bad place.

Too much attention rots the brain.

A n’Art purpose but an Art form?

evil ages you fast

Both?

Even people working a con gotta eat

He was very good in Life As a House, though.

I suspect that if he'd been a tad less pretty, he'd have escaped the mega franchise catastrophe and he'd be the darling of indie projects of the heart everywhere.