Pollyanna Rhee 이채영
@parhee.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo246539639.html
The cover of this morning’s New York Post was truly the main content I was waiting for.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The cover of this morning’s New York Post was truly the main content I was waiting for.
Standing on a stoop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn doing shots of Serbian plum brandy before going out for Georgian food is a top tier experience in Zohran Mamdani’s New York.
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Standing on a stoop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn doing shots of Serbian plum brandy before going out for Georgian food is a top tier experience in Zohran Mamdani’s New York.
Then I made my hasty retreat back to the Midwest.
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Then I made my hasty retreat back to the Midwest.
Seven years and two-ish months ago after an early afternoon spent defending my dissertation I went here for a late afternoon beer and a hot dog with friends. 🫡
November 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Seven years and two-ish months ago after an early afternoon spent defending my dissertation I went here for a late afternoon beer and a hot dog with friends. 🫡
There are a lot of ways to shop at Costco correctly and this is one of them.
October 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
There are a lot of ways to shop at Costco correctly and this is one of them.
Two gourds my dad grew which I believe deserve the title of Absolute Units.
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Two gourds my dad grew which I believe deserve the title of Absolute Units.
Rereading Sarah Igo’s magnificent The Averaged American and reminded of this delightful anecdote about a Gallop poll worker faced with a person with no understanding of the word atheist, and so rephrased a question by asking instead, “Would you vote a sinner for president?”
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Rereading Sarah Igo’s magnificent The Averaged American and reminded of this delightful anecdote about a Gallop poll worker faced with a person with no understanding of the word atheist, and so rephrased a question by asking instead, “Would you vote a sinner for president?”
I have reached peak adult.
October 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I have reached peak adult.
The great Catherine Hall at Illinois last night on private property and empire.
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The great Catherine Hall at Illinois last night on private property and empire.
Y/N: Should I be allowed to use this exceptionally flattering shot a few weeks ago from Waterloo Bridge as my faculty photo to replace the one taken when I was frantically finishing my dissertation in 2018?
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Y/N: Should I be allowed to use this exceptionally flattering shot a few weeks ago from Waterloo Bridge as my faculty photo to replace the one taken when I was frantically finishing my dissertation in 2018?
Sunday with this stone cold classic.
September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Sunday with this stone cold classic.
If life or work (“work”) gives you the chance to go for an A++ refreshingly chilly swim in the Atlantic I recommend this pool in Porto.
September 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If life or work (“work”) gives you the chance to go for an A++ refreshingly chilly swim in the Atlantic I recommend this pool in Porto.
Excellent topiary alert: If you find yourself in Bedfont, London close to Heathrow you might encounter these yew trees in front of a medieval church trained into the shape of peacocks starting in 1704.
September 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Excellent topiary alert: If you find yourself in Bedfont, London close to Heathrow you might encounter these yew trees in front of a medieval church trained into the shape of peacocks starting in 1704.
Got caught out in the rain without an umbrella but was carrying snacks so I was prepared to wait it out. (The doughnut was from St. John’s, iykyk).
September 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Got caught out in the rain without an umbrella but was carrying snacks so I was prepared to wait it out. (The doughnut was from St. John’s, iykyk).
Light rainbow over Parliament Hill.
August 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Light rainbow over Parliament Hill.
Double rainbow over Walthamstow.
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Double rainbow over Walthamstow.
Clearly have no sense of moderation when it comes to pastries and cake.
August 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Clearly have no sense of moderation when it comes to pastries and cake.
Just had the best peach of my life.
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just had the best peach of my life.
Long walks on sweltering days call for Afghan ice cream flavored with cardamom and rose water with pistachio sauce and baklava at the end.
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Long walks on sweltering days call for Afghan ice cream flavored with cardamom and rose water with pistachio sauce and baklava at the end.
Letter of recommendation: Lithuanian cheese curd doughnuts. Especially as a bribe to do some long delayed edits.
August 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Letter of recommendation: Lithuanian cheese curd doughnuts. Especially as a bribe to do some long delayed edits.
Is it a sign that I have properly become untethered from my phone or was having too good of a time that the only photo I took at the nuptials of @asheeshksi.bsky.social was this dimly lit one at the end of the reception?
July 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Is it a sign that I have properly become untethered from my phone or was having too good of a time that the only photo I took at the nuptials of @asheeshksi.bsky.social was this dimly lit one at the end of the reception?
First time back in Omaha since my family moved here for six months when we first immigrated to the US.
July 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
First time back in Omaha since my family moved here for six months when we first immigrated to the US.
What to do with a bumper crop of banana peppers?
July 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What to do with a bumper crop of banana peppers?
Breeding and genetic expression doing its thing with dahlias.
July 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Breeding and genetic expression doing its thing with dahlias.