A pleasant surprise after a looooong weekend of grading. Reading and writing: I’m easy to please.
The three little Octonauts. Enjoying this Halloween—undoubtedly the last one they’ll choose complementary costumes.
The three little Octonauts.
Lanchester on Scott, Suzman, & Civilization
More John Lanchester: his latest, a review (with wonderful cover image) of James C. Scott and James Suzman. Lanchester’s simple opening point: it’s worth considering the difference between science and technology, terms we think of as naturally and intrinsically linked.
October in Minnesota.
I love these three brave explorers.
This girl takes her sleep very seriously. #hermothersdaughter
New arrival!
On wrath, contemptuous smugness, and slower thinking: Alan Jacobs interviewed by Emma Green for the Atlantic.
Beautiful mist on the lake this morning.
Big leaf pile, beautiful day
The wonderful Andrew O’Hagen on literature vs. “the dark babble of social media."
The London Review of Books has a new podcast up, on Auden. It’s excellent. Supplement with Alan Jacobs on “The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden”.
Current listening: two albums from London’s jazz scene: Nubya Garcia’s Nubya’s Five (check out her cover of “Contemplation”); Alfa Mist’s Antiphon.
If forced to pick the greatest song of all time, I might choose “I Want You Back”. That bass line…
Turns out things are pretty much the same, except wetter, and Siri works better.
Captain Abemerica. Saving the world, and stopping to smell all the flowers.
So glad to be present at a very full @AnselmHouseUMN for a talk by Dan Siedell on modern art.
Current listening: Tyshawn Sorey’s Verisimilitude, a beguiling fusion of jazz & classical (a fusion that’s incredibly fertile at the moment).
