Joshua Gooch

Anyone have suggestions for WordPress newsletter plugins?

I need something simple for a low number of subscribers, eg, less than 100.

Mid-afternoon walks are great, except when you eat shit on an icy sidewalk

Two loaves of rye bread made with pickle brine, caraway, and mustard seed. Topping is a light egg wash, caraway, and maldon salt

Grading is done, so I made some pickle rye

Finishing up the semester and my philosophy of teaching remains:

You can't make someone learn. You give students opportunities to learn and coach them as best you can.

You can make better or worse choices about those opportunities and about how you choose to coach. That's it.

Hoisted on my own petard, but petard is the insulated coat I got the dog and it's 13°F outside

High school English leaves a lot of people under the impression that analysis and interpretation are actually the search for hidden meaning. Likely a cultural hangover of religious exegesis, but also a good way to fall into conspiratorial thinking.

The kid is pitching a slasher version of The Nutcracker

I’m guessing the lowest barrier entry to jazz is Vince Guaraldi to Bill Evans to late fifties Miles Davis to early sixties John Coltrane

I made the mistake of playing Shellac’s “Scabby the Rat” for the ten year old, who loves it.

Now I have to figure out if a kid-friendly Shellac playlist is possible

Yeah, at some point I must have decided extremely loud and fast was the only way to get through the year

I thought I listened to a lot of new records this year, but Bandcamp tells me my most played album is Napalm Death’s Earache Peel sessions

Psycho Goreman was immediately raised in my estimation by its end credits story-rap

“Strong floor, no ceiling” is something a real estate agent says when they’re trying to sell you a burned out husk of building

I wouldn’t have believed anyone if they had told me that the piece of kitchen equipment I would use most as a parent is a cast iron griddle

That sounds right. The entire band was so good that it seemed like they could do whatever they wanted!

I saw them in San Francisco right after 9/11. Amazing show and also very strange vibes

I had tickets to see him playing Burning Airlines songs in October but got laid out by Covid. I heard they were fantastic, though

Stiff Little Fingers
Mission of Burma
Burning Airlines
Converge
Mannequin Pussy

Banaji’s 850 page new collection of selected writings

The new Haymarket collection of Banaji essays is enormous

Yes, spell-check, I didn't mean "Poulantzas," I meant "polentas"

Well, this line from a student paper is a keeper: "Society cannot be managed like a survival bunker"

Mandy Patinkin in Night of the Juggler is just Inigo Montoya driving a cab!

Free live recordings of Stars of the Lid? Yes, please

A yellow lab sits outside a coffee shop, waiting for a treat

The dog has once again tricked me into a coffee walk

The dog has realized that on Mondays and Fridays he can convince us to take a second walk to get coffee.

Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...

who benefits when you cheat yourself?

"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."

thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

Idea for a Marvel film: the ups and downs of a construction firm that deals with superhero-based repairs

YouTube video by Frankie Allen Wile E Coyote Falls Off Cliff

Week thirteen of the semester, every time

If you want to improve your waffles without changing the flavor or texture, add fine almond meal.

For a typical recipe with 454g milk, 40g is enough, though the batter may need more liquid if the addition makes it too stiff

Oy vey