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Just chatted with your friend Gwen for a while!

My name is Lukka...I live.... somewhere

This is what that Suzanne Vega song is about

This is how you write a headline

Mid day shoot around

the reach of wild conspiracy theories and the power of RW media. I haven't heard anyone with an idea to address the problem of conservative radicalization on its own terms. You can't even get a message about how cool and moderate you are to people who never even accidentally encounter a word you say

The Fauci hearings are another reflection of my most extreme frustration with this era of Dem politics. They are so so laser focused on winning the next election as the cure for all ills. I have never heard even one interesting, plausible suggestion from someone in power about what to do to limit

Here’s my five year old, for ex

Yeah I think it's confusing "the sea peoples is not a unicause to explain all of the collapses that occurred at this time," which is true, for "there weren't seaborn raiders who caused a lot of trouble in a bunch of different places," which is not true

July was a mountain It towered over the village It was hot and ripe on the horizon, far away One day, too soon You learned to live in its shadow Without looking up Then, when you did, it wasn’t there

July was an open window Far off you could hear something Sounds of laughter, or screams You told yourself you would check on it, soon But by the time you got to the door It was quiet

In a moment, it grew like a great tree, And fell like one Showering August with great chunks of oak Like the road after a storm The rest of it lay in the grass, a home for beasts and beetles July was a ghost that passed through a wall in the other direction

Re Erik Davis, Professor Mcalester College Buddhist Studies "The indictment....does allege...Davis helped facilitate an “emergency meeting” for residents interested in “resistance to ICE” that featured discussions of protest tactics" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Also a lot of Dionysius stories are about him showing up and being weird until people do stuff to him and then he punishes them horrifically. Arguably what the Bacchoi is about

I'm going to chop down this tree so I can build a well over here. Nooooo that was Artemis's tree, she's going to turn you into a bearrrrr

One of my favorite greek traditions is the one where Dionysius gives people wine and they're so psyched about it but then they wake up hungover and think they've been poisoned so they kill the guy who gave it to them (and his dog) but there's a nice little festival in his honor

THEY think it's so normal that gods are heavily invested in whether you abide by a sometimes arbitrary code of morality, and of course in ancient Greek religion that idea shows up but sometimes it's just the bench

I teach a lot about the bible and ancient greek tradition through comparison and one of the things I often tell my students is that one fundamental difference is that the biblical god gets mad at you for sin, but sometimes in Greece you accidentally sit on a bench Dionysius really liked

I said blah blah blah to answer your question and he said "it wasn't a question"

As a grad student, I gave a talk on Homer and Hesiod at a grad conference at UCSB and an elderly art history professor stood up and yelled "You didn't say ANYTHING about Etruscan sarcophagi"