Yup. 👍

Shows to GF.

Her: ok.

Me: you know the poem it’s riffing on?

Her: no.

Me: I have to show you that poem.

Her: no you don’t.

The paper Le Canard Enchainé ran the headline “On a Marchais sur la Une” (we’ve got Marchais on page one) a play on the Tintin “On a marché sur la lune” (we’ve have walked in the moon).

And I was very excited to have gotten the reference.

1994 I think.

I remember this was a small story in France when this stopped getting enforced, and the head of the French communist party, Georges Marchais, could visit New York for the first time.

My understanding of the rationale: participation in an organization with a stated goal of overthrowing the constitution is disqualifying for entry. Somewhat akin to the now moot insurrection clause in the 14th amendment.

Took me 62 years and five minutes of staring in confusion.

We’re all hanging on that last point.

Fun meeting @joshtpm.bsky.social and the @talkingpointsmemo.com crew tonight.

Was the foundation for my programming career. Turns out CMS systems are pretty easy after Mallarmé.

Was nine when it came out. Afghanistan banana stand!

Just staring at that logo.

Changed how I experience the music of that era.

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Alt: Wikipedia article on Slate, stating “Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN.”

Didn’t they create Slate around the same time?

Recalling my thesis advisor instructing me to get two hoagies prior to our weekly meeting…

Smashing … oh never mind.

It’s the culture of always saying “that’s a great question,” weaponized.

Star Spats

Niche job board, it appears. Nice little TIL.

Same. Just a bit on the nose as a death metaphor.

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Done!

Evergreen.

And here I thought one Susan Collins was enough.

I was a little kid when American Pie was a hit. I remember hearing the lyric “and a coat he borrowed from James Dean”, and asking my dad, “Is that the Watergate guy?” “No son, that’s *John* Dean”.

I’m old, so I heard that to the music of “Where have all the flowers gone?”

The Village People soundtrack was … something.

Uh, watched the first episode in grad school. I remember Larry Bud Melman’s “This is CBS!” Feeling kinda old now.