Colin Brown

Glisan Street is an odd case because (from what I heard growing up) the family actually pronounced it "glisten" and wished people would say it that way

The strange tale of the man who was shot point-blank for mispronouncing 'Newfoundland' — in the Old West Mill workers in the frontier town of Larkspur, Colo., saw two men enter a cabin in search of a dictionary. Seconds later, they heard a gunshot

This one has real stakes

They think that the debate is between SAW-vee or SOW-vee for Sauvie Island. But we know it's really whether they pronounce the invisible " 's "

You got lucky. You don't know how it feels. Don't come around here no more.

We're in the middle of survey design so I'm curious how cringe the college students find it and how much it's bubbled up b/c of course I'm working it in to the lecture

Sometimes when you stare too long into Duo, he stares back into you

On a scale of 1-10, how 6/7 is 7-11?

Oh so you hate drizzles?

I mean, I don't know if he watched the game specifically but he lived in New York it's not unthinkable

Alexander Kerensky watched the Mets win the World Series

As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

"meme" is short for memento mori

Wait Star Wars, that's the Georg Lukács joint right?

You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder?

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

I think we're all relying on Robert's prosciuttorial discretion here now

Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

What's the worst that could happen? You discover a book that completely shakes your understanding of reality revealing a powerful interconnectedness with the broader human project of meaningful life calling into question a number of received foundational values?

🎵Welcome to the land of fame, excess (echoed "excess" several times)🎵

Creepy kindly elder: "Oh, you'll fit right in"

Fade and repeat chord in minor transposition

Today is a public holiday in Germany to celebrate reunification. Seems like the perfect day to once again recommend this amazing book on the rather incredible chain of events leading up to the opening of the Berlin wall!

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

A sad gritty remake of Perfect Strangers:

Lonely Herders in the Building

I'm not "mad". Please don't put it in a highly visible article that I wrote myself that I'm "mad" (obviously that other thing)

Literally making up someone to get mad at on the Internet. But not mad, another thing, obviously

Nah man just call me John XI, "Mr Pope" is my dad

Personalized abridged versions of Anna Karenina with the buyer's name worked in as a character. The reviews won't be good, but at least they'll all be unhappy in their own way.

Sorry that ChatGPT doesn't work any more and also blew up its own servers; I asked it to summarize and analyze the Necronomicon for me.

1993 (4th grade): I am shown the hard copy Oregon State course catalog. Blown away by the idea of so many things that anyone can study, I am immediately in love with the idea of "curriculum" and "electives"

2025: I submit the 6th draft of basically identical changes in Courseleaf and sigh *deeply*

Nah man just call me John XI, "Mr Pope" is my dad

Musée des Beaux Arts BY W. H. AUDEN About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.