Tim Ruback
@profruback.bsky.social
IR theory / historical IR / Pedagogy / Maine / Dogs. Views=mine. Trying to practice kindness here. Also here to remind everyone that Thucydides never said that. But really mostly photos of the puppo. https://sites.google.com/view/timrubackme/
Probably something like this John Zorn record would be in my wheelhouse, but...
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
Every now and again, you maybe start to feel like the world has lost its capacity to surprise you anymore. And then this truck pulls out in front of you during your morning commute.
Since we're talking Christopher Nolan movies again:
Tim Ruback@profruback.bsky.social · 8mo agoWatching Oppenheimer, in the moment of pure silence before the Trinity test, when the woman behind us just barely whispers to herself "boom." Perfection. The rest of you saw a significantly poorer movie, through no fault of your own.
Grover gets frustrated very easily, which has made training a challenge sometimes. But the look on his face when things finally click and he's learned something new? Priceless
Just had the most adorable little visitor at my office window this morning. An American Goldfinch, I think? He sat on the ledge peering in at me and chattering away for a couple minutes.
This year, in the knockout stage, the team with more Everton connections loses. Really, England never had a chance.
Robert Altman's It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
David, Host of The Cold War@coldwarhost.bsky.social · 4w agoJohn Woo's On Golden Pond
Ingmar Bergman's The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 4w agoDenis Villeneuve’s Old School
The nice things about books: once you own them, you own them, forever. No one will be eye tracking your reading habits. No one will make money of you reading the book as many times as you'd like. And the very same book can be read by generations to come. It can last centuries, literally. It's great.
As @rogbennett puts it, Cape Verde is one of the most valiant performances in the history of the World Cup. The world will forever remember this team, this performance. Nothing but love and respect 🇨🇻
I bet Argentina is out there like Apollo Creed in Rocky 1. “There ain’t gonna be no rematch.”
This is why VAR sucks. If the line official calls it off-sides, fine. But this endless reviewing of the finest of touches is just nonsense. It's the fiction of thinking a) you CAN eliminate all human judgment and error when all you've done is displace it back one level; and b) that you SHOULD ... 👎
Latest office decor find. Turns out, in 1965, Saul Bass did some design work for UNESCO. Now to get it up on the wall.
Jazz OTD: The John Coltrane Quartet recorded two tracks for their splendid album “Coltrane” on June 19, 1962. One was this brilliant opener. With McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), and drummer Elvin Jones. #jazzsky
Out Of This World
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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Really should submit something for ISA-NE before tomorrow's deadline, shouldn't I?
“It is a mischaracterisation to speak of one Sun Ra. At any given time, there was Sun Ra the teacher, bandleader, the poet, cosmologist, historian, community leader, the patriarch, the mother and that’s just scratching the surface” Do The Impossible: OST by #SunRa buff.ly/QiMc4hl
and if you spend five minutes ripping the cd to a computer, you can even put all its songs on your phone: the convenience offered by spotify, with none of the rentseeking!
FIFA is mad about price-gouging. FIFA. Is. Mad. About. Price-Gouging. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FIFA claim New Jersey’s $150 World Cup train tickets will have a “chilling effect”
FIFA claimed high train prices would result in "congestion," "late arrivals," and "diminish the economic benefit" of the World Cup
nytimes.com
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.
Chris Levesque@levesque-chris.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.
I swear, even if i live to be 1000 years old, I will never understand why people put dried-out markers back on the markerboard shelf
