There’s a #booksky and a #booktok, and a #booktube and a #bookstagram, but no #bookbook

Society is more machine now than man—twisted and evil.

Waiting for the US President’s announcement that asbestos insulation is now mandatory

Discipline and Publish

By far the least realistic aspect of the Indiana Jones movies is the horde of students descending on him during office hours

One day Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan will fight to the death and there will be a quickening. There can be only one Traveling Wilbury.

The guy singing “Holly Jolly Christmas” is surprisingly cool with us all kissing his girlfriend.

Have there been any non-Cricket or -Glick Jiminys?

Are there cognitive benefits to living in the new Age of the Verification Code and briefly memorizing 6-digit numbers several times a day?

Marking essays and thinking, yet again, about something @bcdreyer.bsky.social says about copy-editing work that I think of at least a few times a week: that so much of what I do involves pulling up commas over here and putting them back down over there.

I’m really just a device for transferring coffee from pots to toilets.

Getting tired of having to put money in the fucking swear jar

It seems appropriate that the music in the KFC / Kraft Dinner sandwich ad is a requiem, what with all the dying and everything.

This might get in the way of me finishing Proust.