@exjon I turn around for a hot minute and you're a novelist! Congratulations! I see it was published on my youngest son's 18th birthday, so that means I had to get it.
Etymology Twitter (or whatever), why are these flies piled up on this rock and not flying away? (Have confirmed it's bare rock.) Lots of baby? flies swarming on water around it.
ok twitter let's get this done!!!
less than two hours to go
all my students and their families went offline about an hour ago to observe shabbat
they have left it in YOUR CAPABLE HANDS
vote, share, share some more, remain eternally hopeful!!!
@SaintRPh The first grandkid names the grandparents; the rest fall in line. It's the reward for being a guinea pig and having to live up to overwhelming expectations.
Request for gift recommendations! My soon-to-be graduate is almost certainly embarking on a nomadic lifestyle (she is a costume student who is looking for a wardrobe job on a touring show). Hit me with your must-haves for the nomadic life.
Folks, this video essay by @landryeayres is SO good not only for its commentary about the sad intellectual evolution of Tucker Carlson but containts some priceless footage of Soviet reformer Boris Yeltsin's visit to an American supermarket.
https://t.co/y872eAwlKc
On this day in 1836, after a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, were killed and the fort was captured.
We remember.