Brian Fairley

Funny story, we used to do it in the park until we met a surprisingly reasonable older gentleman …

In my day we just grilled eggs and frankfurters!

Carrère especially

Also by two totally normal dudes!

Help ARISC survive federal grant cuts! By American Research Institute of the South Caucasus

Because of federal funding cuts, the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) has lost two-thirds of its income. ARISC has supported me and dozens of scholars and is one of the only organizations funding research in this region. If you’re able, please consider donating to help them!

At least it was sweater weather!

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Genuinely sad about this!

Chef’s kiss on the Shen Yun detail

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Finally someone taking Sontag’s yearly recommendation to heart

A rite of passage for young metrowest drivers is/was accidentally ending up in downtown Boston because you took 93 N instead of 93 S to go north from the Cape

His face rings a

Need an INNOCENT judgment from @darthbluesky.bsky.social

In my work on Austrian and German musicologists, I’m constantly like, Oh, they just let that guy go back to work in the same position in 1946??

L’avenir de l’ham

Just saw this in Tbilisi and filing it away for NBA meme purposes (@netw3rk.bsky.social)

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I saw those categories last month and could not make heads or tails of it

Following customer please!

Was his name really pronounced Bérnard with the initial stress or was that just how Father Connelly did it? (did not realize how deeply burrowed those sounds are in my memory)

New publication! Here’s my review of two books about sound recordings of POWs during WWI (Britta Lange’s Captured Voices for Kadmos Verlag and Anette Hoffmann’s Knowing by Ear for @dukepress.bsky.social). Surveying some great work on these complex sound archives and hoping to inspire some more!

—Something for you, the professor explained to Myles Crawford. Two old Dublin women on the top of Nelson’s pillar.

SOME COLUMN!—THAT’S WHAT WADDLER ONE SAID

—That’s new, Myles Crawford said.

A good reminder that academic-press books are basically never fact checked! (even though I’d previously really respected Princeton UP for their Soviet history stuff)

I’m THIS close to getting it to recreate the second book of the Poetics

Wolves have left at least 10 points on the table, could have doubled up the Lakers by now

Non-Euclidean zones of course

Sqaure