Michael Berkowitz

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With the response to Booker's filibuster and the MASSIVE nationwide protests yesterday it is clear Senate Dems need to do more. @warren.senate.gov and @edmarkey.bsky.social need to start denying unanimous consent to Senate business. If Schumer asks you not to, well, you don't work for him.

This started me down a rabbit hole that has now arrived at Mary Halvorson playing John Zorn, and that's pretty alright for today.

I've tried Dhalgren a number of times and loved it but never made it all the way to the end. But I'm finally getting through 2666 this year, so maybe 2025 is the year of "giant novel-like books I keep trying to read".

Predestination, The Fall (Tarsem Singh movie, not the TV show)

"I sleep in a big bed with my wife" feels like the only possible response to that.

If you won’t unequivocally call it a Nazi salute, you’re a collaborationist and don’t deserve to be a journalist.

WHAT

WHAT

YES

Also, we still need to watch the murder(?) mystery movie that Sondheim and Perkins wrote together...

I can get my brain to make the modern vowel sounds in "λοιπά", but it just refuses to do the same with "και"...

Explain your username:
A friend in college thought to combine my first and last names, and it's stuck, though more as an online handle than a nickname.

Debate rages over whether the first "I" is short or long. I've always pronounced it as a long "I", but you're not wrong if you go the other way.

That sure is a pairing of words...

We are all chickens rotating in God's rotisserie display

You are correct. I'm trying to find a lexicon for someone who is just starting to learn Hebrew, so is more comfortable going English->Hebrew to find translation pairs

GREETINGS

Hi, it's me. I'm the friend

Is it really that weird, though?

Rarely have I seen something so @lissaharris.bsky.social-coded that wasn't about local climate policy...

5 writers I've read 5+ books by:

Italo Calvino
Umberto Eco
Frank Bidart
Louise Gluck
N.K. Jemisin

Theoretical academic paper with an extremely niche audience, all of whom I'd want to be friends with:

Music as Midrash: From Debbie Friedman to @themountaingoats.bsky.social's "The Life of the World To Come"

Should I go back to grad school just to give myself an excuse to write this? Y/N

{extremely REM voice} this one goes out to my one eyed pug

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