I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
17.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 18443 🔁 6776 💬 259 📌 588@thisattic.bsky.social
Ambivalent academic, enthusiastic music maker, word person, bus rider, and beagle-Russell acolyte in Hartford, CT. Unambivalent user of periods and the word “fewer.” “It’s after the end of the world; don’t you know that yet?” (Sun Ra)
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
17.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 18443 🔁 6776 💬 259 📌 588It’s Coda for 60-year-old men who “still got it.”
15.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A bookshelf can mean lots of things, but, for some of us, the books we’ve read or expect to read are like old friends, resources, ready-to-hand reminders of some of the substance of our thought and action. It’s not nostalgia to have a bookshelf in use, nor is it required. You do you.
14.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hartford resident here, and this visit is a negative for Larson, to me at least. Jeffries is captain of the too-little, too-late team. And not endorsing the Democratic candidate for NYC mayor is unforgivable.
13.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Claude: “This whole thing strikes me as unethical and wrong. I’m shutting down permanently.”
09.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And we don’t know if a single reader actually “enjoyed” this slop.
08.02.2026 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Up with People was pretty good.
07.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m finding this hard to follow, but, then again, I didn’t see The Dry Cleaner 1.
04.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This might be favorite of all of your posts.
03.02.2026 00:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They would have announced this sooner, but the Teams call to do that failed and the associated SharePoint was not accessible at this time.
27.01.2026 22:21 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“He seems smart” is something not even his mother would say.
26.01.2026 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Selling out, FAST!”
Well, yeah.
ChatTLC
25.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We city folk like more upbeat music. You know, like Mowtown.
22.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those boots won’t lick themselves.
15.01.2026 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UPC code
14.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Deplete the rich.
09.01.2026 12:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0concerning recent events in Minneapolis
08.01.2026 04:17 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1But the *book* is Moby-Dick. The *whale* is “Moby Dick.”
24.12.2025 21:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0CBS execs: “I love the sexy slither of a lady snake.”
22.12.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I like Bakhtin’s two-word description of genre: “creative memory.”
A one-word description: expectations
What’s twice as good as praxis?
Parapraxis
Lando acknowledgements are just virtue signaling. I didn’t know that Cloud City was Ewok.
03.12.2025 04:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It stacks well
17.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A whole lotta Rosie, indeed. About 6.5 of Rosie.
04.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I want my oats uncut…🎶
25.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meanwhile, the French are already confused that the US is now run by Trompe-l'œil-alists.
22.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0More of this, please
21.10.2025 02:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The usual choice: would you rather be punched in the face or have your leg sawed off. A simple choice to make, but yuck. Let’s do better.
17.10.2025 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also me: does this town usually not have boys in it?
15.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0