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December 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Canon was never a popularity contest. It’s aspirational, isn’t it? It’s defining what people should read, what are great works, and maybe you achieve some of them.

Never finished Joyce’s Ulysses myself, but I get the gist of it, and it’s there.

BTW, I know three kids under thirty who know Walt…
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Love Gerard Manley. Thanks for reminding me of this one. Trying to return the favor:

Spring and Fall To A Child

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44400/...
Spring and Fall
ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why.
www.poetryfoundation.org
September 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It’s turtles all the way down, and all the way around.
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When people say order it from Amazon, I say ‘I’m not giving any more money to Jeff.’
That’s it. No more name.
Sorry to the rest of you out there - I’m sure there were some pure souls among you.
July 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Correction - ‘Satanists, and - of course - homosexuals.’
The ‘of course’ really just makes it perfect.
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Love this. I had to see if ‘Kentish hop alleys’ were indeed hops plants, so I searched and found this interesting article: flashbak.com/picking-hops...
Picking Hops In Kent - 1900-1949 - Flashbak
“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us” – Charles Bukowski, Life Magazine, December 1988   ...
flashbak.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
NYT is such a disappointing paper I have canceled my sub. I’ll support news and subscribe to 3-4 locals, but NYT has been relegated to the dustbin, sharing company with WaPo.
July 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Phenomenal color, framing, and angle!
June 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It’s a great piece. But your fav? That’s some pretty hardcore shit then.
June 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Yikes
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And???…. Like, we need some hint of what it was!
May 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And, also, I find it fantastical that the world’s most successful and wealthiest company can figure out a way to make their own products in some other place. They have genius bars, for goodness’s sake. (ok no source there, but pretty close, I’d say)
May 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Shouldn’t you be more outraged that he’s getting 7 and you’re only getting 5? Thanks, pink tax.

I guess weekends are made for going commando.
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Soundgarden is not punk, unfortunately
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Now I’m wondering if my Chewbacca one is mocking Aragorn.
April 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of oceans bear.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
- Thomas Gray
April 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A fantastic work on the subject, and a truly heartbreaking read, is John Kelly’s The Grave Are Walking. I have still not finished it because the cruelty and devastation is something that I can only read in small doses, but feel compelled to read and bear witness.
March 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
And there were actually potato blights at the time in other countries - in Central Europe and in France and the Netherlands. In those places, people did not starve because there were government relief efforts not tainted by the bigotry and callous disregard of the English gentry.
March 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM