E.E. Reed

But we do watch a number of channels together as a family on our big screen.

Shoutout to Smarter Every Day, Steve Mould, Veritasium, Technology Connections, Practical Engineering, Crash Course, Daniel Thrasher, Elle Cordova, and, of course, Giant Balloon June with The Slow Mo Guys.

Our kids get to watch plenty of TV and play plenty of video games.

But I’ve been a hard and unrepentant no on unsupervised YouTube for their entire lives.

Scott Cairns! there’s a name i’ve not heard for a minute!

We're open for pitches of any length! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

we used to publish books in this country.

books.

this volume in my hand was published in New York in 1926 by The Macmillan Company. it has sewn signatures, and they lay flat. the typography is modest but elegantly spaced, and it is such a beautiful reading experience i can hardly stand it.

a remarkable meditation on how, in spite of our best efforts, we are, in fact, our own worst enemy.

Interesting!

and people wonder why i won’t quit banging on about hermeneutics.

hang onto your people, friends.

we never know how much time we have.

well, friends. a shocking Phenomenology Friday.

my dad was in a bad car accident, he has six broken ribs, but, thank heaven, he is stable and alert.

however. he is here to testify we are not merely minds.

i’m glad we’re friends, Martyn.

eat your heart out, Lacan!

it is unkind how you are always calling me into financial ruin.

they just don’t make sad men with guitars like they used to.

yes. agreed.

“Whereas the hermeneutics of suspicion looks backward, thereby reducing claims to meaning to the economy or energies that function behind them, the hermeneutics of confidence is oriented in a forward direction, toward the world that presents us with meaning to be interpreted.”

a table of factions of American conservatism compiled by T. John Jamieson.

sharon, have i shared this with you before? i can't even remember where i found it.

oh no!

welcome.

lol

*chortles* *clears throat, straightens tie* *CHORTLES AGAIN *

phenomenology for the … uh … win?

sharon. i know how to read this tweet and it’s giving me anticipatory ptsd.

i am thrilled for you and your family!

we got to get together for some celebration beers and bbq!

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound,
And a wave broke over the railing.
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
'Twas the witch of November come stealing.

50 years later, the legacy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of th...

shoutout to everyone who grew up knowing the gales of November come early.

lol

oh no!

but also Frightened Rabbit.

RIP to the late Scott Hutchison.