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some anti-hegelian thoughts that is, a few madonnas

thinking about Hegel, art history, and my favorite Filippo Lippi:

open.substack.com/pub/chezaris...

me: don't put that cup there, it'll a leave a ring on the wood forever
y&w: so it'll always be a memory of the fun times we've had?

happy phenomenology friday!

I like to think that if your child can make the perfect joke about Émile you are doing ok

y&w son: <picks up Émile> what's this book about?
me: I've never read it before, but it's about raising the perfect child
y&w son: <perfect deadpan> you've never read it?

Under cover of the busy end of the semester, American University's leadership announced a decision to hire the Huron Consulting Group, which has brought disastrous 'restructuring' to the New School, Marymount Univ, West Virginia Univ, and elsewhere. AAUP statement to come. Please share widely.

y&w son:

imagine you're a whale and you're breaking up with your girlfriend. then imagine someone puts that on spotify

me: I'm grading! please let me grade

y&w son: you grade I hug

y&w so into his Friends marathon now that he claps along to the theme song claps

y&w son, bursting into my room on a saturday:

"I need a sugary drink. ASAP"

me to y&w son: hmm I feel a little off
him: do you need a drink of water? a snack? trip to bathroom?

Twilight of the Heroes of Capitalism How Michael Lewis got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried.

I wrote about a lousy literary genre rocketing into its self-satire phase, and my hope that Michael Lewis's Sam Bankman-Fried book will someday be appreciated as a comic masterpiece. nymag.com/intelligence...

start at 16:50 for the best version of solidarity forever www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4l1...

we got pandemic-burned out on the classical one, so it's nice to have a satisfying alternative

it's been five years and today, for the first time, I realized I might could turn on a local jazz station instead of streaming radio from nola

Fall, or as I like to call it, the season where curly hair looks good

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuH...

new homeric epithet just dropped

thank you, one month later!!