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Ok I used the Merriam Webster birth year word search tool and all the words for my year are in proto-Semitic, like Akkadian didn’t even exist yet.

this seems to me very obviously true

The funniest move, of course, would have been to call the sequel "Cape Funf" and then establish a series of prequels: "Cape Eins," "Cape Zwei" unsw.

hmm, they keep creating the vapid, clout-seeking form of public intellectual life from my science fiction novel "don't create the vapid, clout-seeking form of public intellectual life."

being a serious intellectual doesn't mean that when you see the phrase "p-hacking" it doesn't remind you of Special Agent Dale Cooper's claim that by delaying urination he derived a nearly sexual pleasure, no, it doesn't mean that at all.

Just when I was looking for a new way to describe my ambitions, I learned about the concept of the "Brand Liability."

come to think of it, "Waffle, Es, Es" is a terrible name for a Yiddish-speaking waffle joint

Beautiful railway bridge of the silv'ry Tay Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879 Which will be remember'd for a very long time

On August 13th, in Brooklyn, in a garden, Rebecca Porte will speak on the subject of paradise and Hieronymus Bosch - people (starting with me) are calling it the literary-critical event of the summer. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/sip...

Sips & Scholars: On Earthly Delights: Theorizing Paradise with Hieronymus Bosch with Rebecca Ariel Porte | Brooklyn Public LibraryClass is in session this summer! We’re partnering with the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research to offer the second annual Sips & Scholars series, free lectures set in bars, parks, cafes, and restaur...www.bklynlibrary.org

Yesterday was Jonathan Gold's birthday; he would have been 66. Laura Gabbert's documentary about Gold and his Los Angeles, City of Gold, released several years before Gold's passing in 2018, remains my favorite documentary, and I loved this conversation with Gabbert: laist.com/news/los-ang...

Jonathan Gold was LA. 'City of Gold' director on what he'd write nowCity of Gold documentarian says Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer transformed food writing and helped many understand L.A.laist.com

but I wish to know, if "we are experiencing longer than normal hold times due to an increased volume of calls" first, would you describe your experience as "erfahrung" or as "erlebnis," and is the volume of your calls measured in their decibel level, or just in their sheer number?

Haruspex > Meta Specs

Emily Wilson reviews Nolan's adaptation of the Odyssey = welcome Emily Wilson reviews my high school class on the Odyssey, in which I performed the sacrifice of the beeves of Helios using beef fried rice = terrifying

It is, after all, a scholar's professional responsibility to stand up for the intellectual independence and coherence of their field, despite the temptation to make exigent appeal on instrumental, financial, or political grounds.

Is there an acceptable level of corruption in professional life? Or, is there such a thing as an unacceptably high standard for good behavior?

but this is, in fact, what Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein is like, sans the big budget, which is utterly extraneous.

Unfortunately, one function of public intellectual life is to mask precisely the difficulty Scott describes here.