clocking in

Don't make me tap the sign

I think a lot about this piece of trivia from the 1974 Great Gatsby movie

oh hell yeah

Overseen at the NYC DSA general meeting

In this short Life that only lasts an owah / How much — how little — is within ah powah

The only correct way to experience the Iliad

Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live

For some reason this has impacted me deeply

I'm in love with this. When an interviewer for The Paris Review asked the poet James Wright (1927-1980) about the process of creation, he gave the most beautifully human answer:

Don’t even think about talking to me until I’ve had my Emily in Paris Garlic & Fine Herbs Boursin

Night in the Red Room by Esther Sarto

A Beautiful Haunting - Reginald E. Higgins (British, 1877-1933)

Thinking about the young female professor of Mathematics at the University of Bologna in the 13th century who taught her students from behind a curtain because she didn’t want to distract them with her beauty.

bad time to have a Walter Benjamin type disposition

one insane lifehack that completely changed the game for me was writing an unpublishable PhD dissertation on American literary naturalism

I can’t go out with you tonight, I have to update my toaster.

Edward Hopper drew this in 1932 as a reflection of his jealousy toward his wife’s cat.