Someone want to fill me in on why NBC Sports's Premier League ads involve a Scottish voice aping lines from an iconically Scottish film? Did someone think "any British-ish accent will do"? How aggravatingly stupid.

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"Weird" is the buzzword of the moment, and nothing embodies that as much as the fucking Cybertruck. Nothing says "this is a weird vehicle, made as a weird statement by a real weird dude, driven by a person you can safely assume to be a weirdo" like that thing.

Fell headlong down the "early-70's Mulatu Astatke is so damn good" rabbithole - thanks, for once, Spotify - and I discover he's not only still around but playing NYC in June? Excellent.

You can't descend into the terrifying depths of consciousness, life, death, memory and cosmic reality without some Lithuanian in you, you just can't.
(I was watching AT's Solaris last night and thinking about this similarity too)

Marking/commenting on student paper proposals, and fiercely resisting the urge not to put my hand or head through the plate glass window of this cafe as I read students referring to any piece of writing as a "novel."

Gotta go pour one out at Dia: Beacon tomorrow.

Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/a...

I'm sorry, did I just see a Buick ad with an Alan Watts speech as the voiceover?

Me too, pal. Me too.

3:30ish pm, 12/01/23: I lose my annual personal Avoid Hearing "Wonderful Christmastime" Challenge.
In Trader Joe's, predictably.
A lamentable new record.

There are two wolves inside you.
One of them would see this headline and not proceed to the story...

Putting together some stuff for a class in which I'll touch on Walter Benjamin, I've just discovered there are "Angelus Novus" capri leggings out there.
This storm is what we call progress, indeed. www.zazzle.com/angelus_novu...

2. Stopped in at a northern NJ Dunkin' for croissant & coffee this morning. Just after me, a tall, dapper, professional-looking man stepped up,asked the lady "do you have a tuna melt, something like that?"

"Do you have a tuna melt?"

In a Dunkin Donuts.

Haunting my thoughts.

Today, the first full day of my next (hopefully!) full spin around the sun, has contained two items of minor consequence.

1. Been harboring a small sniffle/post-nasal thing since last night, leading to an increasing sense of dread that my Covid shutout streak was at an end. But...

Love a good metadata error

"A Large Fight on Harmony Street" is a pretty good name for an album and Bridgeport's gonna let you have it for nothing. https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/three-people-injured-in-knife-fight-harmony-street-18296881.php