Finally watched “Die Hard” with my wife last night. Only took 34 years to get around to this bit of popular culture. Conclusions: (1) lots of fun; (2) Bruce Willis was basically playing his character in Moonlighting, but as a NY cop; (3) of course it’s a Christmas movie.

“Show some leadership.” To a man who lost his 37 yo wife this afternoon. When I seriously consider leaving Twitter, it’s not because of Elon, but tweets like these. I generally like people. Why go out of my way to be reminded of their capacity for ignorance and cruelty?

DOGSTOEVSKI COWBOY It’s great fun.

.Michael N 🤷🏻‍♂️ is reading & very much enjoying "Vanity Fair", thanks to a certain blogger (all right I mean me). But here's a question: what is Thackeray's best novel after "Vanity Fair"? Is it nearly as good, or significantly inferior?

Had a series of dreams last night pertaining to the summary judgment I’m working on today — generally anxiety dreams about not being able to understand the evidence I was trying to line up.

Oh no.

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Omg this guy is amazing.

Well if a *composer* says Shostakovich is no good, I guess I need to ignore my lying ears.

New blog update: The Brothers Karamazov: characters and characterisation dlvr.it/SlVj5g (Automated tweet)

“It’s Gortex”

The first four hours I bill on any given day are far easier to accomplish than the last four are.

It’s hilarious to hear my 14 yo son singing "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" to himself. He’s suddenly discovering that the 1980s was a good decade for music.

Some people would be much better off if they didn’t say what they were thinking.

I’m surprised how much I hate the stupid X logo. I’m surprised I care at all. But I guess I never realized how attached I was to the bird logo till Elon trashed it for no reason. Bye bye little bird.

Introduce yourself with: 📚one book 🎥one movie 📀one album 📺one TV show

RIP Daniel Dennett, a beautiful mind.

RIP to the great Benny Golson. youtu.be/Cv9NSR-2DwM?si…