Elliot

Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: Song · 2006 · Duration 7:34

today’s emo gym playlist is just the “batter my heart” aria from Doctor Atomic on repeat.

and yes i’m singing along. (terribly.)

Anyway this is a joke about the american president’s increasingly corpse like appearance.

I believe the head used to be regularly stolen by UCL students as a prank.

it’s a perfect album.

Mr. Betham’s doctors report that he is in excellent health and the recent disappearance of his head is simply prophylactic in nature.

the person you’re talking to just stopped after taking preworkout and bundling up for the outdoors to sit on the side of his bed and mouth along to “the predatory wasp” with his eyes closed. because feelings.

This song takes me back to my junior year of college feeling this crazy combo of religious zeal and alienation/despair. I cried in bathrooms a lot that year.

Yeah this has been on repeat for a few days now. Good stuff.

and he takes
and he takes
and he takes

oh i suck at eating. daily struggle. daily.

Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens on Apple Music Song · 2005 · Duration 5:53

Happy Casimir Pulaski day to all the Chicagoans. ❤️

“On the floor at the great divide / With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied / I am crying in the bathroom”

The art of eating isn’t hard to master.

congrats! that is such a great feeling!!!

if you cut off your head it sometimes becomes possible to see what you actually look like but you have to surprise yourself

Full text here:

Today’s (bonus) poem: Philip Larkin, “Aubade”
#lunchpoems

“And he was eaten by worms and died.”

“ology” is not a root fwiw.

the strategic hands folded in front of mouth is very important for times like this

theology professor in graduate school.

i had a professor once tell me that i have a melancholic nature due to my “mediterranean blood”

i have no mediterranean blood.

i’m half assyrian and people somehow universally guess that I am from the balkans.

Today’s poem: Stanley Kunitz, “Route Six”
#lunchpoems

i do.

“We are informed by the texts of the gospels that in this Church and in its power are two swords; namely, the spiritual and the temporal.”

- Boniface VIII, “Unam Sanctam”

the latter

I snoozed for an hour this morning.

I don't understand why they do this stuff.

Apophasis.