*Pindar sings (Pythian 10, when he was ~20)*: “When a guardian spirit guides humans, their lives from beginning to end grow ever sweeter. Also, donkey phalluses lol.”
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"Does the fact that I employ almost as many people in Georgia as Caterpillar does matter? No. Does Caterpillar get millions of dollars? Yes.
I had $26 in my checking account last week. I’m borrowing funds from people I know to pay payroll." @hughacheson: atlantamagazine.com/dining-n…
As Pindar reminds us, the distant is local: we too can touch the pillars of Heracles from home... Support small businesses! Just ordered books via @BrazosBookstore (amazing staff recs page) and coffee via @SummitCoffee (my undergrad haunt).
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the coronavirus emptying the stadiums and turned professional wrestling's high-octane zaniness into a taut and terrifyingly tense Beckett play
has made the blood sacrifice as the seer instructed... now the shades arrive... all praise be unto the mouse god, Apollo Smintheus.
What [if not winter] causes psoriasis?
Don't [you burn me]rely thinking of space heaters?
Plunge into relief! Reach for the Pha(rmak)on!
Skincare by Phaon™
There’s a vineyard on Long Island called Pindar, and it’s run by a man named Herodotus. Sounds like a real βασιλεύς of a νομός... pindar.net
Worked a Lizzo reference into a lecture on Themistocles today... but am feeling old because no one knew who Jimmy Hoffa was...
Cultural impoverishment by decree of our billionaire academic publishing overlords... HUP's copyright argument here truly boggles the mind...
"The poet’s lover was also her brother’s wife, and the editor of her first books was her brother’s mistress." On the contentious ownership of Emily Dickinson's work: ow.ly/SbU050vZYlP
Mountain laurel on a southern slope of the Cumberland plateau. Eastern Tennessee, USA. #FlowerReport
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i wrote this after anthony bourdain, but people who need to not look at the news for a while should and for anyone feeling bad today, my DMs are always open huffingtonpost.com/entry/sui…
That all started at Davidson. Just … being around people that inspire me … that’s where the seed was planted … theundefeated.com/features/f…
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Mollie Tibbetts’ mom has taken the son of Mexican farmworkers — who fled when their coworker, Mollie’s alleged killer, was arrested — into her home. washingtonpost.com/local/soc…