Exactly what writing for 4 hours straight feels like

'What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?' 'A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.'

Go #Philly! but personally won’t be standing in the back of a garbage truck to celebrate #claustrophobe

"Democratic society will not long endure if it does not nourish within itself strong centers of non-governmental fountains of knowledge, opinions of all sorts not governmentally or politically originated.” Harold W. Dodds

Interesting

And who of us hasn’t? 😂

Best Beck albums: Sea change Odelay Mutations Morning phase Mellow gold Midnite vultures

Nice little Philly to Boston area connection. The Old Belfry (rebuilt, but now 100 years old) still stands on a quiet hill in Lexington.

#SCOTUS unanimously reverses CA5 in Wages & White Lion vaping case. Justice Alito's opinion is critical of CA5's overreading of precedent and tells them to do it over. 1/

Someone has drunk deep from the cup of Holmes Jr.

It doesn't seem unlikely AI slop from LLMs will end up making it much more difficult to find reliable written information online.

I’ve known no such day.

I decided to quit social media and read print newspapers. Print news:

Great piece by Julia Binswanger about a really interesting new Haverford art show. I met and wrote about some of these artists a couple years back, glad their work is getting more attention.

“Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep: All these with ceasless praise his works behold Both day and night.” —John Milton, Paradise Lost

Congrats to Krasznahorkai. This one’s a must, if you like your Soviet dread dreary, surreal, and nihilistic.

Common sense proven correct by extensive research.

Rolling into 2026 like…

The ‘09 Iran protests were a top news story until Michael Jackson died. After that it seemed like people just forgot about it.

"The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776