We named our cat Ginger, because it's the name our toddler insisted on him having and wouldn't take no for an answer. For a quiet life, we just went with it. Our cat is black. It confuses people, the vet included.

It's a damn shame you can't threaten to murder student protesters anymore, due to woke. Amiright folks?

It is the 1990s. You are a literary critic. You have just realised that developments in the historical marketplace for print exert an influence on literary form. You feel like a god

I find it so odd how cult-of-IQ types alternate between talking as befits the scholastic meritocracy they're obsessed with and just saying shit like they're on JRE. "The feminization of academia!" Sorry, you can't be Roosh V and Karl Popper at once. That's not a kind of person

We've arrived at the stage in this community wherein you better tell someone if you're not going to be at Morning Prayer (e.g., doctor appointment) so that we don't call 911 and break down the door to your room.

I'm co-hosting a poetics & philosophy colloquium in November! We welcome a broad range of papers, from studies of specific philosopher-poets to discussions of the kinds of knowledge which poetry can give us. See the CFP here: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for…

‘For Emma’ was all recorded by himself in a cabin in north Wisconsin after a total breakdown, as was Springsteen’s Nebraska, and they’re two of my all-time favourite albums but then I do think of this Onion article

Also at least the admin of Wadham had the excuse a) of horrific ptsd from the war & public school b) confidence that the students wouldn’t do a thing.

Well, he’s sort of golden but he’s nowhere near a ‘calf’ I guess.

I think if a male reporter had an affair with RFK Jr. it would be a story actually

TIL that Scientology has sedevacantists

This is an outtake because the bloody flash went off but it has captured Astrid YELLING perfectly.