Scholar-in-Residence: August ‘24-July ‘25 My time in the sun has come to its end.

Pullin up to the function with a pocket full of pastilles

Steyer heads, let’s start talking about where we’re going to spend our exile.

Buying a new basil plant just for the aura of having some leaves poking out the top of my tote on the walk home

It’s like poetry, it rhymes

New Sibelius just dropped?

so there are these people that insist there’s only one city in a country of 340 million

In no particular order… Kokoro In Search of Lost Time Under the Volcano The Heart of the Heart of the Country The Radetsky March The Magic Mountain Pale Fire The Sheltering Sky Infinite Jest Journey to the End of the Night

Telling people I’m reading « La Recherch » instead of "In Search of Lost Time"

I hate to be a buzzkill but we are just recreating the soviet mosaic aesthetic by first principles.

Fuck, even self hatred is trite

GET THAT WEAK SHIT OFF MY TRACK!!!!

Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

Never turn 25

Baz Luhrmann should make a Hitler movie

I got one of these for Austria-Hungary

Man I was being kinda frugal and didn’t think I could afford to see Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera and now I’m really feeling like I blew it by not going

My Nana is trying to tell me that Young Sheldon is based on a true story

Obsessed with the absolutely insane jacket copy from the first edition of Cathedral