I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
Joel Calahan
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Apprentice philologist. Poetry translation and history teaching. Chair-leg hero. Emeritus: Signal to Noise, Chicago Review reader-in-chief of Caliber, an occasional newsletter of translation and reading [ask at calibernewsletter at gmail dot com]
i don’t like any of the discourse of the day so do you guys want to hear a fun little secondhand anecdote
Happy 86 to the brilliant Roscoe Mitchell!
Malt Lick Nursery@maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 3d ago"Music is spiritual. Music is certainly way up there on that level. That's one of the things that has attracted me to music is that all of the possibilities of things that can happen." Happy Birthday Roscoe Mitchell born August 3, 1940
credit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe...
In the long term, if not shorter, I hope this backfires to a degree they can't anticipate. They don't really understand how much young people want to lead a helpful, meaningful life of doing good.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
A new endless waiting room in the Inferno for people who leave their cars parked at the pump of a busy gas station while they go in to pee and then casually browse drinks.
[whispering to baby while watching Odyssey when Circe first appears on the screen] That should be pronounced KIR-kee
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago“The Odyssey” is selling out in all formats at all times of day — including baby-friendly matinees, which are packed with newborns and frazzled parents desperate for some normalcy.
imagine if the bennet sisters had experienced garlic bread
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
A nice Neil Young cover by Glen Hansard, RIP youtu.be/UvoMmH1W8Nk?...
out on the weekend (neil young) - glen hansard & friends
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a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.
Some literary gem at the local library book sale. If anyone wants this copy of the Zukofsky issue, let me know. It’s long out of print and excellent. 
I could listen to Welles talk about acting and directing all day. Here he talks about the experience of being heckled in his first play in Dublin and how it changed him.
I got two: Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment thus all his pardons and executive orders are null and void. also, it cannot possibly be the case that the Founders intended the pardon power to be a viable criminal conspiracy tool. pardons in service of crime are void as well
karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.
Come hear my noise duo play at Constellation in support of our debut EP, Acapulco Anus.
AVCX Classic@avcx.bsky.social · 5d agoAVCX crosswords *do not* treat the letter N as equivalent to Ñ (bc they are different). If you’ve got NIÑO going across, it can’t be PIANO down, it has to be ARAÑA etc. And if you have ANO in the grid, it’s getting clued as “Acapulco Anus,” not “Spanish year.” Need to put this in our spec sheet
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Committing suicide after deserting during the Great War… 🫡
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
“If any government official tries to con the American people, or tries to transgress their oath of office, this agency will investigate. In fact, that’s what we’re going to call it: Con Gress, congress. Congress will investigate.”
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d agoSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is set to introduce legislation to create a new federal agency to investigate corruption in response to President Trump’s administration ahead of the midterm elections.
“Gianni Infantino” is Italian for “Boss Baby”
Brian Ruh@brianruh.bsky.social · 6d agoI’m going to tell my kids this was Max Headroom.
you can't even sit peacefully on a calm lake anymore, because of wake
Liked the odyssey but missed my favorite line: I swing my fiery sword I vent my spleen at the lord He is abstract and bored Too much Milk and honey
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
Ross Douthat about to become the breakout TV star of 2026 with his raw animal magnetism bsky.app/profile/razz...
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 8mo agoAre they going to arm wrestle
“Douthat, as in ‘Why does your face “do that”’? Or ‘Douthat’ as in I ‘doubt that’ you ever got laid in college?”
