Chris Kraus

For a moment i thought you meant written in the 18th century, and i was confused. But now i see the news to which you were responding. Wow. but -- no. We have a Bowie musical, btw, and it is .... flawed.

what language is that in?

your memory is too good.....

E. desperation.

hmmmmm. there's some predictable stuff in there, Prof N. But this is not an easy exercise.

5. Eight-line poem [kidding: Heroes or Under pressure or Cat People, you choose]
4. Slow Burn
3. I Can't Give Everything Away or No Plan
2. Teenage Wildlife
1. Sweet Thing

"but while professors at elite universities sound the alarm over Gen Z undergrads not finishing Les Miserables because they are uninterested in reading a pompous French man drone on for chapters about the Paris sewer system..." Preach.

PLEASE, i'm sure Yale Jackson already has him lined up, to follow Chris Christie.

i hope it's pronounced "keyes".

You are absolutely right.

does it matter? not be assholes, i'd say, is plan A.

of course, you are at least a decade younger than i am. to me, a desk top is a desk top.

desktop???

"was probably a mistake." Yuh think?

this may be the last straw for me with the TImes.

He seems to be obsesssed. January 2024, in the same rag: "A beginner’s guide to getting a massage," Evans, Lloyd
The Spectator; London (Jan 20, 2024). I spare you the details.

then i'd definitely check Bell.

related to lucus a non-lucendo? i'd check Bell, Latin poetic diction.

Which is not to say that what's happening now is not evil. We have two finishing PhDs this year who landed tt jobs -- and a bunch in the last years who didn't but are on the treadmill. I worry about them a lot.

These PhDs are going to struggle. But both my parents died indigent, one on Medicaid after for years complaining about taxes, one just after entering a nursing home that i was paying for--and both had to work into their 80s. Bad choices and bad luck do damage even when the system is on your side.

they are wonderful.

All I hear when someone wants to discuss taxes:
Secretary of War: Gentlemen! Enough of this. How about taking up the tax?
Firefly: How about taking up the carpet?
Secretary of War: I still insist we take up the tax!
Firefly: He's right—you've got to take up the tacks before you take up the carpet.

it's a nice object lesson in why we don't have a lot of English dactylic hexameter. Also this year for the first time i learned that it's a good way to teach freshmen who Longfellow was. SIGH.

Yale does it too. Charges for cleaning the room after if it's one of the big nice ones that everyone wants.

i have 5, up for grabs

why are you buying a beanie?

I did that in 2003–haven’t looked back.

WHAT?????

we need more react buttons here.

unquestionably mean. also: I live in France, so.

Mom always liked you best. RIP.