Tom Powell

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.

Sartre
Attic Greek
Archery
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
17th Century English Poetry

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We finally have our marching song.

Please broadcast it as far as your voice can.

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“Cognition bender” enters the lexicon …

“… the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it’s an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.”
- John Marshall, Talking Points Memo

About a half century ago when I applied for my job at an independent book and record shop in DC I was asked to identify Boris Gudonov.

That was such a cool place to work.

I wonder if Trump’s new National Security Strategy reads better in the original Russian?

All across the country today some pretty great college students are raising money for Camp Kesem, a program for kids who have a parent with cancer. I would sure be grateful if you could help, either through this link or elsewhere. Thanks!

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So do most of the Democratic power brokers, who still carry the Clintons’ water — and for this reason they will inevitably soft pedal their already lukewarm-at-best fervor to release the Epstein files.

Just after they install half a dozen eight foot tall chocolate fountains festooned with golden cherubs.

So now 135 pages of manuscript and I finally believe this will be a book.

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O-o-h Child, by the Five Stairsteps

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Yes. I recall a thought experiment from grad school: if the universe will end momentarily, and the last thing you can do is press or not press a button that will allow one last flower to bloom for five extra minutes, would you press the button?

A thousand times yes.

Yes indeed. I am researching/writing about the parallels, which as you suggest are eerily close in a number of ways. I think that perhaps the English universities recovered in less time than ours may.

This is quite small, but I just picked fresh Greek basil and green aji rico peppers for tonight’s stir fry and am listening to classical music with an ever-hopeful Malamute while watching the sun set.

Thanks, JSTOR, but I find that my Non-Artificial Intelligence Research Tool works just fine. Been using it for decades.

I am delighted to report that my daughter is editing a new literary magazine that is already getting great reviews! Do please check out the debut issue - and consider making a submission.

www.househousemagazine.com

I see what you did there. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Let us learn the Way of Toad.

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` the opportune moment '' written on the bottom . Alt: a close up of a pirate Captain Jack Sparrow’s face while he speaks with the words “the opportune moment” written on the bottom.

It’s still my birthday month, so why not do a giveaway of one of my books? 📚 🏴‍☠️
Rules: like this post and be following me for 1 entry. Share this post for another entry!

Winner will be randomly selected and announced at 9:00 am (ET) on Friday, May 23rd!

Because this heartfelt story is so important, so vital in the course of our history and the pattern of this moment, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has very kindly shared it here in its entirety, as a thread. #IslandOfFlowers #IslandOfFriends #OldFox
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Thank you, Anne Louise Avery, for this gift.

I stand in gratitude with the Stoat.

Exactly.

So this country is in the hands of a malign, sadistic, narcissistic version of Chauncey Gardiner. Oh, good.

Peed

Seconded. Penzey’s spices are excellent and the owners are good people. I just placed an order yesterday for as much of their Trinidad spice as I could rationalize.

Which is kind of a lot, not gonna lie.

Yes, that seems entirely compelling. And so it is in part a way of banishing personal unease by “taming” the other?

There’s something deeply wearying to me about the laziness, and sometimes malice, of being reduced to just one aspect of ourselves and then being expected to live only and always in whatever silo that may be. The quiet fascism of ein Fach.

A man sitting and looking towards the viewer of the engraving. The man leans his arm on a parapet and is surrounded by female personifications of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture as well as a winged angel with fanfare trumpets (Glory), Father Time with his scythe and the skeletal figure of Death clutching an arrow; a putti holds aloft a wreath and carries a palm. The image is part of a larger engraving, made around 1600, and nowadays at the BM 58490001 (Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/58490001 ).

This is how your email finds me.

This is the correct response for every university to take with the Trump administration, as the latest demand of a *consent decree* on Columbia demonstrates.

They intend to kill you anyway. Do not cooperate.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.