I have sworn off all Woody Allen nonsense but I thought “maybe Midnight in Paris” wasn’t as insufferable as I remember and within three minutes it was deeply deeply insufferable

So happy for Mackenna Goodman. Her work is a balm for the soul

You would think it would be the left who would staff a beloved news show with boring, unlikable would-be-knowitalls but no...once again the right wing edges us out.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last wk.

"They know this is TV, right??" a CBS News senior staffer texted me about this news. "I hate it here," another CBS reporter said.

You know a lot of us have been critiqued by classicists without also having made $1bn off a movie and we’re doing fine, so I’m not worried about Nolan at all.

The Howard U thing is not just about checking emails or paying bills—it’s 500 students—that could be 20% of the incoming class. That’s a massive amount of students. Something did not go right

It’s weird to see people attacking “The Literary Canon” in 2026 as if it hasn’t already been replaced by a bunch of three paragraph passages and a multiple choice question set generated by AI. There’s no way forward without defending canonicity in expanded form

Great production of Troilus and Cressida at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Not an easy play to put on

Going to finally be near swimmable natural water in two weeks and this dog is going to be my inspiration.

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 2w ago

This is Chubbers. He is catching a wave. But more importantly, catching a vibe. 14/10 (IG: nataliepaigebentley)

We had to fix our outdoor sprinkler system because one extremely tiny sprinkler head meant to water a single container blew its top and created a thirty foot arc of water. May all home repair items be so slapstick

gotta say I wasn't expecting Matt Damon to look directly into the camera and say "future generations will only know of us through IG reels because there won't be anyone left who knows how to read"

Going to see Troilus and Cressida soon and re-read the play. It is very very good.

Drop everything and watch Blue Heron (on Criterion). Make room for intense sadness

Favorite retro touches of Blue Heron: the darkroom and the dangerous thrill of jumping on a trampoline with no net

Watching Blue Heron on Criterion

Excited for new Marilyn Hacker work!

This is easily the hardest hike I’ve ever done. Worth it but with a few challenging turns

It's exciting when a poet whose book you love starts a journal and accepts some of your work for their first issue.

Picasso, L’Aubade

Letting myself get fully into vacation mode after some early morning Canvas wrangling for the Fall

It won’t be a 7/4 fireworks record if he doesn’t shut up until 7/5

Thomas Jefferson has been dead for 200 years. He would like about current US: -State of US winemaking -amount of universities and books -select corners of the internet Would dislike: - oafish monolingual president - shoddy neo-classical fake arch - spread of equality to nonwhites and nonmen

Someone eventually is going to do an Xmas Carol parody with T*ump and E*stein and I want to tell that person now that we aren’t in the mood

You can tell the oligarchic nature of things where the Supreme Court will endlessly expand Trump's power except where they believe he could further crash the economy (hence tariffs and Fed decisions).

A museum of the past two years. Under each item, the words: “this went really hard if you were stupid”

Mamdani is obviously the leader of New York metropolitan dems and that is amazing I don’t know why we have to nationalize everything and make it so weird. Let wins be wins!

This is mostly because the Nixon Foundation, after seeing what the Trump folks get away with on a daily basis, decided to test the revisionism waters by paying some 20 year old to spend all day EpicPosting on IG. As a sweaty sucker for exactly that sort of content, it’s no surprise Vance said this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

You all have permission to start arguing about great books courses once you have done everything possible to fight against the corporate takeover of the university and the private equity mindset that wants to defund any pure academic discipline. You can infight once you have survived!

As I become older, I have a new appreciation for old man books. Jim Harrison, Peter Heller, etc... Reading The Farmer's Daughter now and I think The Woman Lit by Fireflies is one of the best pieces of fiction ever written.

I need there to be a Long Story Short-style cartoon based on the novel Nothing to See Here.

Makenna Goodman’s fiction still delivering. The Shame is so good