Dr. Utter is all out of A's to give.

Amazing! I hope you gave him the full James Lipton treatment.

I confess that I'm pleased about this.

Ask yourself, how much would I be willing to risk to protect Anne Frank, even if her name were Anita Francisco?

It's hard to believe that this is perhaps even more relevant now than it was when I wrote it a few years back.

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

The most powerful nation in the world is apparently being run by the people who wrote the credits for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

2/2

Go ahead and invest in crypto if you want to, but I predict human warmth and defiant gladness are the currencies that will be going to the moon in the days ahead. 🖖💰

Two baristas were doing a bang-up job of singing along to "Love is an Open Door" this morning as I popped into Starbucks, and I reached the counter just in time to make the duet a trio. One handed me my order and beamed, "I dig your Star Trek t-shirt!" We all exchanged "live long, and prosper"s. 1/2

Photo of the bottom half of an illuminated and illustrated page from the iconic Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, on display under dim museum lighting. On this page there’s a portrait of the Summoner on horseback holding a sealed document in hand. There are beautiful leafy tendrils curving along the margins of the page, with one bottom tendril, burnished in gold, that is catching an ephemeral glint of angled light.

A cool thing about being on fellowship at the Huntington: seeing which page of the #EllesmereMS is open at the moment. Its burnished gold captures glints of light, the gallery description waxing poetic about the text—with no mention that the Summoner’s Tale is a big fart joke 💨 #FartLit #MedievalSky

Would you believe that I thought immediately of you and your interest in brutalism when I first saw the trailer for this?

I wrote and sent this to my students last week, so I guess I'm now in the "promises kept" phase of my teaching career.

Greetings, archivists and biographers of the future!

I regret causing you disappointment. Probably time to take one bold step forward by adding a photo to my profile.

Would you settle for just one the boy?