Streetcar

It’s so awesome Bill Watterson is only 67. Made a masterpiece from age 27 to 37, and then has just been chilling since. Beautiful.

Scenes from the Streetcar Euphoria Season One Viewing: "So they don't let the family eat in a restaurant because the son did some domestic violence? What town is this? If they had this policy in Tuscaloosa, they'd have to close down all the Applebees."

Bf and I watching the first season of Euphoria

I love how everyone is yelling at each other about how many pages a week a person should be reading without specifying anything about what they’re reading. It’s like having a debate about how many food items a person should eat in a week.

Columbines are back!

Getting my coworkers to go to church with me getting my church friends to go to the club with me getting club folks to join me for picnics under the full moon I WILL make a monoculture in Austin

*doing my taxes I've been in New Errlenz too long. Gurl, I been durring my taxes.

I've been trying this new thing where I'm praying for the flourishing of anybody who crosses my mind during the day which meant that while during my taxes today I prayed for the IRS people and I felt so stupid. Just absolute Ned Flanders hours over here.

Never thought I'd live to see the day when conservatives would make the case that religion is merely a set of private devotional practices separate from the public sphere, given, y'know... everything the religious right has ever done from 1980 to today

I'm sorry. If you say "religion" should stay out of "politics," I'm going to find the most annoying liberal arts professor & send her to your house so she can say, "Well EVERYTHING'S political, since politics is the deliberation of how we live together in community" over and over

@default_crow @OwenofUpstate I look at the city of Jennings and it seems like it could have had a horse as a mayor at some point

@default_crow @OwenofUpstate If I had to pick, I'd lean boat white. The people in Evangeline, Acadia, Jeff Davis throw me off though. Clearly more horse people than boat people. I should call Carl Brasseaux about this.

Any white culture can be put into one of two groups: "boat-white" or "horse-white". Don't believe me? Try it.

@ChrisExpTheNews I am liking this not because I agree with it but because I appreciate the commitment to serious Les Mis hate. This is top-tier hater material.

Javert's suicide is a stand-in for the author trying to kill his own cognitive dissonance

Yes. Valjean basically has a road to Damascus moment off screen because Hugo was a bleeding heart ideologue writing a post-Christian sermon to validate his own faith. The reality is that people like Valjean mostly would just keep doing crime. Song is a fucking banger tho

the Oracle of Delphi is weak on crime

I haven't read your book because that'd be admitting I have a crush on you

Everybody wanna be David in the David & Goliath story and nobody wants to imagine themselves as Goliath.

"Well there's WAR in the Bible!" Yes, but its meaning isn't singular. Sometimes war comes as a form of punishment on the people of God. Sometimes the righteous are victims of violence My goodness, I wouldn't trust some of y'all to interpret a Hemingway story much less Scripture

@ghostowlredux It's why all these pundits can't go beyond, "Either God is the Lord of Armies, who teacheth my hands to war" or He's a peacenik putting aside Peter's sword in Gethsemane. It has to be ONE or THE OTHER b/c there's this childish inability or refusal to hold both in the mind at once

@ghostowlredux I tell my students all the time when we do New Criticism, "tensions hold the poem together the way opposing tensions keep a bridge standing."

My worry is not that this generational shift will be conservative (some of my best personæ are conservative!) but that the shift will embrace the same cruel, humorless, un-playful rigidity that characterized the very brand of libbery the reactionaries want to supplant.