David M. Perry

It’s not a coherent file. It’s not organized. And then suddenly “aha!” And only some of those panned out. But some …!

IYKYK (also my great grandma. Her husband Henry was interesting too)

Writing is thinking.

I have this file of “interesting random notes about medieval relics housed in Venice.” Just names, source location, sometimes another sentence. Every time I found a reference I’d add it.

During my scholarly career so many additional projects emerged as a result of that file.

... need a Belle Moskowitz Way

which oph?

[stands up]
[pulls several muscles]
[sits down]

Anyone over 50 should be able to wrestle an angry tree in a gale. I think you just need to lock in.

I used to eat there about once a week as a grad student.

what about after 50?

but ahh, nostalgia for a hyper metabolism of youth

My body can't really take big breakfasts anymore. I just get too sleepy. Of all the sins, I miss gluttony the most.

The perfect order at Al’s Breakfast From a laid-back brunch to “I’ve got errands,” here’s a superfan’s guide to ordering like a regular at the Dinkytown institution.

An important discussion.

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

In addition to the Jungle Theater pausing its programming, the Playwright Center also recently announced it's in a 'financial crisis'.

Minneapolis was already in a cultural collapse, but it looks like 2026 is going to be a full blown arts and culture crisis

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Childeric III has entered the chat

Haven Watch No One Walks Alone

To donate havenwatch.org. I’ve never met any of these folks but honestly this is the top tier of awesomeness in Minnesota

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Havenwatch had a ton of their supplies stolen for greeting and taking care of those released by ice.

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"Having set up a straw man, I shall now demolish it. And the left will finally be saved."

- Ryan Grim, Ace Reporter

I appreciate all the people earnestly explaining to him why he’s misrepresenting the criticisms of Platner and fundamentally misunderstands bigotry but you might as well be complaining to a horse about a book review

Cover of The Eagle of the Ninth

Young me *devoured* Rosemary Sutcliff’s work. Could have picked *Warrior Scarlet* for this, or a few others. #worldbookday

Men think they're doing their share of housework. They're not. The gender gap is taking a toll on women's mental health and is not showing signs of getting better.

related to the previous post.

"New research from the university suggests that women who carried the bulk of the housework load at age 25 still bear the same heavy burdens decades later as they move into middle age — and that "women's domestic workload only increased during the child-rearing years."

I love the art (and surely will love the story)

Barrelhouse booth 1185

Nothing says "we have no bosses" like an 8 foot rainbow-laser-eye cat banner. Come see us at booth 1185 at the AWP bookfair today, writer nerds!

I’m a fucking delight

So far

Prenatal care for a high-risk pregnancy is essential.

Atholl / Beggerman
Foggy Dew or other standard rouser
Bright Burn the Bridges
Jerusalem Ridges + David's Moonshiner
The Mill
Blood Red Roses
L'Etoile du Nord

(it's a short set)

Chotiner: How long did you stay with Calypso?
Odysseus: Seven years
Chotiner: As her prisoner?
Odysseus: Yes. I was bewitched.
Chotiner: And another year with Circe?
Odysseus: It's complicated.

solidarity with my faculty colleagues in public higher ed in this state, now more than ever, who are being told what they can and cannot say in the classroom by a political party full of people who want to live in Nazi heaven and are happy to say so