Erik McDonald

If I’m reading Kyle right, Frey admits failing to issue 100 housing vouchers *that are funded this year because he wants to kill the program next year.* (This is not Stable Schools, but for single folks.) This is unallotment Trump-style, especially since county/MPHA are in.

an open book with a hand-drawn bookplate on the right side. the top of the plate has "A. Helen Page" written in tentative cursive. below that is a child's drawing of a girl with wavy hair and a triangle skirt. at the bottom, in tentative print "HER BOOK 1899"

relaxed saturday evening reading through "women designers of book plates (1902)" and flipped past a couple of beautiful professional designs only to see this perfect plate by a young Miss Page

'It was hell:' Ketamine shot sends Minneapolis man into intensive care, renews calls for investigation Partner says giving man sedative put him in ICU.

This one still makes me worried about calling 911 for a medical emergency, and I doubt the people who ignored actual hypoglycemia suffered any professional or legal consequences. They assumed the man must be on drugs after being accurately told he was diabetic and suffering from low blood sugar.

We should both hire people who care about the lives and comfort of those who are at their mercy while detained, and make it so people who callously ignore medical emergencies never work in these fields again.

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

There was a massive difference in the life of the average German between 1925, 1930 and 1935. That difference was not because the Nazi Party became more fascist over that period, but because a fascist movement was gained control over more state functions.

"Sad marble angels brood like hens
over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.
(The angels could just as well be described as *vulgar*
or *pitiless*, depending on camera angle.)"

Cover of Russian version of an Enid Blyton novel for children, Пять юных сыщиков: Тайна ограбления в театре, on an audiobook app

Not sure why it came up when I was searching for an 18c novel, but it's amazing that the Five Find-Outers and Dog series has been translated into Russian

'Call It the Clown Car': An Oral History of Minneapolis's 35-Candidate 2013 Mayoral Election - Racket Thirty-five candidates. Three dozen debates. Two unrelated pirate-centric elements. The first real test of ranked-choiced voting and, finally, a new mayor.

“‘I got so much done. I got so much policy passed, I got really good budgets passed. I embedded some key racial equity things that it took a long time for Jacob to undo,’ [Betsy Hodges] says today, reflecting on her term.”

This whole thread is interesting!

This is the guy on the credentials committee that ousted me as a delegate for being an “outside agitator.” He lives in WAYZATA. I live in Ward 2. This is outrageous. Ward 2 needs new leadership, stat.

YouTube video by READ RUSSIA Antony Wood "On Reading and Translating Pushkin” -- December 7, 2020

"The older you get, and the worse your hearing gets... the more adventurous you are with rhyme... So in that way, the old brigade have an advantage, if they cared to use it" (42:34)—Pushkin translator Antony Wood

On why matrimony is different from patrimony (answers are in the comments)

I'll believe it—I heard it go by in a scripted show from ~2018, used by a kind of over-the-top aging criminal character

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Five men sit at a table with a guinea pig in the middle

I think copaganda would be more effective if more of it was police officers deciding who takes the station guinea pig Ivanych home

Без копья = "without a spear," or in informal Russian "without a cent, broke"

French movie poster with the title "Un Raccourci dans le temps"

Word of the day: raccourci. "En raccourci" can mean "foreshortened (visual arts)" or "in summary." Or "shortcut," like an Excel keyboard shortcut. And apparently in one context "wrinkle."

Endorsements! In ranked order (key races):
Mayor: Davis, Fateh, Jazz
BET: Bernstein, Brandt
Parks At-Large: Olson, Wilson, Frederick
W2: Wonsley
W4: Haynes
W5: Burnett
W7: Cashman
W8: Stevenson
W10: Chughtai
W12: Chowdhury
Parks D1: Englehart
D3: Deshpande
D4: Garcia
D5: Carvajal Moran
D6: Jourdain

Colorful chalkboard that says "message from the barista: leave a review on Yandex cards so the boss gives me back my passport!!!" in Russian

Plus a grim picture, even if it's a joke.

‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one

"For every degustation spot for fine wines, or craft beer popups in Moscow suburbs, there’s a ‘Red and White’ booze discounter. Red and White has over 21,000 little stores across the country. That’s twice as many outlets as there are McDonalds in the US."

From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man.  My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now ha…

(I cut some commas for character count, source here)

"Imagine for a moment how odd a time the first half of the 20th century was, how dizzying its noise...A distinguished officer who in the 1910s made a lasting impression on two literary giants was by 1938 appearing as 'Professor Von Stupor' in the Three Stooges short 'Violent Is the World of Curly.'"

Russian and English sentences where the word "rotaprint" is incorrectly translated as "rosary," then "roads"

Reverso used to be so much more useful (though tbf if you scroll far enough you get better results)

Word of the day: подвох, usually 'mean trick, attempt to deceive someone' or 'catch' as in "there must be a catch," but whimsically used as a shortening of ПОДВодный ОХотник 'underwater hunter, spearfisher' by spearfishers.

I know so little about sociology that I always feel like I'm missing something in these posts, but I still learn so much from the critiques of other approaches.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

"Russian eighteenth-century literature has ceased to be a dull subject which only a few wizened specialists study...Clear evidence is provided by the anthology of eighteenth-century poetry *for teenagers*, Lyres and Trumpets... which recently appeared in its second edition" - Vladimir Markov in 1988

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses