TIL that a MLB pitcher dropped acid and threw a no-hitter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis

“Inspire Teen Reads pitch contest wants to hear the stories that inspire teenagers in Canada” cbc.ca/amp/1.5652511#…

MLB season 2020: square peg, round hole.

Thanks. Currently sitting at home waiting until I’m 45 so I can brew a coffee.

MLCGA (Make literary criticism great again)

Having just started the first book, Ferrante is a literary heavyweight, and this interview on her process is too good.

It's not productive, but I find myself thinking mournfully about how many resourced parent advocates have their kids in private schools. And how badly we need them right now. Imagine if there were no private schools and all those loud voices were fighting for all the kids.

JRR Tolkien's drawings for Letters From Father Christmas

Pensive. What do puppies daydream about?

Thank you for inadvertently summing up about 95% of the novel.

Today, DANI ROGERSON learned that there isn’t just one Die Hard film, but five. FIVE. A whole PENTALOGY of Bruce Willis fighting nefarious bad guys with accents.

“Bucatini is spaghetti but thicker and with a hole in it, meaning it absorbs 200 percent more sauce than its thinner, hole-free brethren, due to math.”

I, for one, welcome a straight shot of Boss Metal Zone from time to time. In small doses. “Conspiracy theorists share schematic for “5G chip” they claim is implanted in COVID-19 vaccines – only it's actually for the Boss Metal Zone” ⁦Domenic Orsi⁩ guitarworld.com/news/conspirac…

"The Handmaid’s Tale" is a cautionary tale on the fragility of democracy. Tonight on #TheDemocracyAgenda, Margaret E Atwood speaks to Steve Paikin about the past, present and future of that form of government. At 8/11pm | Producer: Wodek Szemberg

I get to do cool stuff at my job.

Revisiting this tweet one year on. Die Hard still inspires (…perplexity, mostly).