Gabriel Finkelstein

Chengdu, 2006

Rewatched "Only God Forgives."
My take: culture and history are stronger than family and feelings.

Citizens Kane: Alfred Krupp and William Randolph Hearst. They build gigantic, tasteless houses and died unloved.

This morning

Windy today

Fall colors

Tuna my neighbor caught in his home town in Mexico. The dressing is olive oil, lemon, soy, shallot, and caper.

Magritte edition

Pirate baby, 2010

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK

youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U?...

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants » La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Now that there are no more jobs at all academia has finally become meritocratic

(PDF) Weismann on Butterflies PDF | First research paper I wrote in graduate school. It's not as bad as I thought. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

The first paper I wrote in graduate school isn’t that bad.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

What we always order after we go for a hike

Germany dreaming of Italy

View of Como

Continental Divide looks bleak

Boreas Pass Road near Breckenridge

Grove

O.K., but is this outfit mandatory?

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas

As we keep saying: when the humanities are in trouble, the sciences are, too; generally, at UK universities, the sciences are cross-subsidised by the arts and humanities.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Also acceptable

Why not a fez instead?

Lose that hat

Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the United States government. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment.

Everyone who values freedom of speech should be outraged — and they should speak out.

First snow in the mountains

Twelve years ago

12 years ago today. My daughter is still giving me the same look of shock and confusion.

Gordon Craig