One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way that that guy, the professor, was going to tell me anything useful. No doubt he knew many useful things, but he wasn’t going to say them; rather, he was going to tell us…
Your local elected officials are not special. They’re mostly regular people, just like you and I. You do not owe them any sort of deference when they are doing their jobs poorly.
The last thing on earth they want is their constituents figuring this out.
Lots of good stuff this year. Here’s a playlist: ## My very favorites Additionally, here are a few albums and singles I wanted to call special attention to. They’re presented alphabetically becasue I’ve choosen to ditch the “best of” framing I often go with; I’m not writing music criticism here, and I have no editor…
It was a bit disappointing to learn that a “plant-based sports bar” had taken over and destroyed half of the Elliott Smith wall, but I wasn’t gonna let that prevent me from a photo op.
This picture was taken at the finish line of the 2012 Beaver Stadium Run, seconds after Franco Harris (right) had admonished me to “Finish strong, son!” The Penn State community lost a great ambassador today.
Bookmarked List of sauces – Wikipedia.
Perhaps one of the most important pages on all of Wikipedia.
Twitter is rapidly moving away from “place I don’t want to spend as much time” and “place where I should not be publishing original thoughts” (as documented here) and towards “place I can’t really justify being a DAU.”
Christmas kitty.
I opened my Twitter account on December 27, 2006. I am Twitter user 307,983. Over the past nearly 16 years, I’ve spent far too much time, energy and attention on Twitter. It has exacerbated my mental health struggles in countless big and small ways. It has absolutely changed the way I write and think by…
