the carie
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I cannot drive by cows without saying "cows!" which poses some logistical problems considering i live in southwest Oklahoma.
it's not for nothing that my students read Marx's "The Power of Money" (1844) and were like "this is totally about elon musk"
![That which is for me through the medium of money – that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) – that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money’s properties are my – the possessor’s – properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness – its deterrent power – is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: ‘is’. – Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2zdkpuoht3guhsx5rm2rjry7/bafkreihpasyo6sigv6u3imesxjdk3ohbg5u4uo4vcbad4uov62a4yi4dzm@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's not for nothing that my students read Marx's "The Power of Money" (1844) and were like "this is totally about elon musk"
i would like credit for suggesting they face the wall (but maybe i don't want credit for being mean like that)
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
i would like credit for suggesting they face the wall (but maybe i don't want credit for being mean like that)
Had this on my fridge for over 20 years
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Had this on my fridge for over 20 years
oh shit i just realized THIS even more perfect album was also when i was 16 (though i don't think i discovered it until my freshman year of college when i got the internet)
(also does anyone remember "clik radio"? the first not really streaming app?)
(also does anyone remember "clik radio"? the first not really streaming app?)
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
oh shit i just realized THIS even more perfect album was also when i was 16 (though i don't think i discovered it until my freshman year of college when i got the internet)
(also does anyone remember "clik radio"? the first not really streaming app?)
(also does anyone remember "clik radio"? the first not really streaming app?)
What perfect album came out when you were 16?
(also i was a HS modern dancer and the number of pieces set to songs off this album that year was like, almost the number of tracks on this album)
(also i was a HS modern dancer and the number of pieces set to songs off this album that year was like, almost the number of tracks on this album)
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What perfect album came out when you were 16?
(also i was a HS modern dancer and the number of pieces set to songs off this album that year was like, almost the number of tracks on this album)
(also i was a HS modern dancer and the number of pieces set to songs off this album that year was like, almost the number of tracks on this album)
Found in the language lab supply room clean out: the user manual for why my brain is the way it is:
October 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Found in the language lab supply room clean out: the user manual for why my brain is the way it is:
sadly removing this now no-longer-trendy 2024 slide from my PPT on Baudrillard and instead adding a discussion about Labubus.
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
sadly removing this now no-longer-trendy 2024 slide from my PPT on Baudrillard and instead adding a discussion about Labubus.
Last year's book list (not including short stories and poems assigned digitally):
October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Last year's book list (not including short stories and poems assigned digitally):
i just had a purchase from a canadian clothing company refused at the border at US customs and returned to sender. so that's happening too.
August 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
i just had a purchase from a canadian clothing company refused at the border at US customs and returned to sender. so that's happening too.
embarrassing: i ordered aquarium-safe driftwood from amazon (which was supposed to be "3-6 assorted pieces") and received ONE STICK, which i am returning, but now i need to bring ONE STICK to staples for unboxed returns drop off, and the world will see that i purchased ONE STICK on amazon.
August 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
embarrassing: i ordered aquarium-safe driftwood from amazon (which was supposed to be "3-6 assorted pieces") and received ONE STICK, which i am returning, but now i need to bring ONE STICK to staples for unboxed returns drop off, and the world will see that i purchased ONE STICK on amazon.
The Boston Terrier Museum in Floydada Texas (it is by appointment only so I have not been inside)
August 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Boston Terrier Museum in Floydada Texas (it is by appointment only so I have not been inside)
under $150 and surprisingly easy to install despite poorly written instructions.
(corporations, please hire trained technical writers like my students!)
(corporations, please hire trained technical writers like my students!)
July 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
under $150 and surprisingly easy to install despite poorly written instructions.
(corporations, please hire trained technical writers like my students!)
(corporations, please hire trained technical writers like my students!)
Scapes make great pesto!! I also really love a peas + potatoes dish. Just like home fries, but with peas. idk i did that all the time when i grew peas. Broccoli you can piece out into smaller chunks, toss with olive oil & lemon juice, then roast on a sheet pan in the oven at 400F for 10-15 min.
July 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Scapes make great pesto!! I also really love a peas + potatoes dish. Just like home fries, but with peas. idk i did that all the time when i grew peas. Broccoli you can piece out into smaller chunks, toss with olive oil & lemon juice, then roast on a sheet pan in the oven at 400F for 10-15 min.
maybe there's something addictive in o-ring rubber but my cat was obsessed with these. the downside is they are very easy to chase under the fridge, etc.
May 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
maybe there's something addictive in o-ring rubber but my cat was obsessed with these. the downside is they are very easy to chase under the fridge, etc.
I haven't been since visiting a friend there in 2002 but I still have and adore the fridge magnet!
April 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I haven't been since visiting a friend there in 2002 but I still have and adore the fridge magnet!
In good news, the lesson plan I came up with in a vision while falling asleep (mapping fabula vs syuzhet in the first 100 pages of Beloved) actually somehow worked:
March 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In good news, the lesson plan I came up with in a vision while falling asleep (mapping fabula vs syuzhet in the first 100 pages of Beloved) actually somehow worked:
trying to evict the Carlsbad Field Office is dumb for so many reasons, above and beyond the minor personal irritation that it would make me have to totally re-write my research on the "WIPP Visitor's Experience" in the Skeen-Whitlock building lobby. (it's a delight, if you ever have a chance to go)
March 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
trying to evict the Carlsbad Field Office is dumb for so many reasons, above and beyond the minor personal irritation that it would make me have to totally re-write my research on the "WIPP Visitor's Experience" in the Skeen-Whitlock building lobby. (it's a delight, if you ever have a chance to go)
obvs i drive an 03 4runner now that i paid $5k cash for but the $0 dodgy neon did well for itself back in the day despite having only 1 non-broken motor mount and a dying transmission. a cybertruck could never.
February 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
obvs i drive an 03 4runner now that i paid $5k cash for but the $0 dodgy neon did well for itself back in the day despite having only 1 non-broken motor mount and a dying transmission. a cybertruck could never.
some proof (and this wasn't even the worst of em)
February 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
some proof (and this wasn't even the worst of em)
"You do what you can do in the space that you have with the resources you have.”
on the beauty and pain and terror and togetherness of Oklahoma:
www.teenvogue.com/story/nex-be...
on the beauty and pain and terror and togetherness of Oklahoma:
www.teenvogue.com/story/nex-be...
February 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"You do what you can do in the space that you have with the resources you have.”
on the beauty and pain and terror and togetherness of Oklahoma:
www.teenvogue.com/story/nex-be...
on the beauty and pain and terror and togetherness of Oklahoma:
www.teenvogue.com/story/nex-be...