Spending my morning reading about the gender and sexuality of a fictional bear.

It's a tough job but someone's got to do it.

I'd love to live in a world in which it is considered the epitome of academic skill and propriety to make your own argument very convincingly in the text and then the exact opposite argument equally as convincingly in the footnotes.

Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

—Leonard Cohen

The place is important; the time is summer. It's any summer, but the place is home and the people are my family.

—Sally Mann

Gustav Klimt, 'Water Serpents II' (1904-07)

What a terribly insane world.

A person invested in bad ideology can have no sense of safe harbour. They despise their opponents for having so easily seen through their nonsense. Meanwhile, they feel contempt for their allies for having so easily aligned with their nonsense.

My YouTube is acting like a particularly conservative Parisian art critic of the 1860s and asking me to sign in before I view a documentary on Gustave Courbet.

What is your favourite work by Tennessee Williams?