Mr Thompson Woofed

Decided, while avoiding all current news (go ahead, call me squeamish), I should delve into a subject about which I know little. To begin, I love the idea of an eminent historian managing to write a very short book (150 pages) on a subject as vast as World War I. What discipline!

For some reason, the 4.5 minute opening of Lina Wertmüller's film, Seven Beauties (1975), seems appropriate today. (Caution: War footage) youtu.be/Mx2GoEV5yf0?si…

@johncusack A great way to put it: she made everything better. She's onscreen in _Ghost World_ for a matter of seconds, and it's a better picture because she is!

RIP - to a great actress . So underrated , made everything she was in better by her presence . And was an incredible intelligent kind gracious person - when I had the chance to meet her.

@womensart1 Margaret Bourke-White, in 1930

Photographer Annie Leibovitz (and assistant Robert Bean) on the Chrysler Building, New York, 1991 #WomensArt

Thank you, _The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld_ for getting me through that dental extraction (with help from novocaine and nitrous oxide)! So many diverting tracks on that double album! Will be calling upon you again when the implant rolls around. <3

@EricKlinenberg @chrislhayes My bumper sticker:

Americans have a will not to know what happened here during 2020, and our collective denial of the nation’s bungled response to that year’s cascading crises is a massive political gift to Donald Trump. It’s time for a reckoning. Four years ago the US was in a lethal free fall.

@Booker4KY October 4:

I can’t wait to vote early.

@JeffSharlet Fasciinating and frightening. Thanks for your field reports.

@ProfMKavanagh @JeffSharlet Or Doris Ulmann.

@JeffSharlet Mr. Sharlet: loved your most recent book and am anxious to know what might be stirred on the right by a Harris win -- whether narrow or overwhelming. Have you written anything lately describing what you expect after Nov 5th that I might read?

Dreamt I was walking with a pleasant man who was driving sentient rutabagas to market over cobblestone streets with the help of a bamboo staff. The swedes were huge -- the diameter of a hay roll -- but largely cooperative.

@BrianRoemmele Guess again. Maybe a camcorder?

New York, 1993. Shot on an iPhone?

@Acyn My bumper sticker:

Obama: When I was president, I had been talking to scientists for a while so during my last year in office, we put together a pandemic playbook for how to deal with the eventuality of a pandemic.. When Trump came in, we gave over this playbook and he threw it out. I want to be fair on this, no matter who was going to president, this was going to be a problem… But if you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 40% lower than here. So just do the math. That’s more than 400k people. People’s grandparents, people’s fathers, people’s moms who would’ve been alive if Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him. It might have been somebody in your family that could’ve been impacted. So, if somebody tells you that this doesn’t make a difference, having somebody competent who cares about you.. it does matter and at some point, it will make a difference to them

Keogh's a dedicated sleeper.

@kirawontmiss Argiope aurantia is a beautiful and fascinating spider! Got to spend a whole summer watching one through my office window. She was so exhausted after secreting her brood into their egg sack, I brought her crickets from the bait store.

nature is wicked bro got rolled up like a blunt😭

@JeffSharlet Love hearing an audiobook directly from the author. Some even sing!

@BrianRoemmele Or she was from Brooklyn and her real name was Amy Camus -- Yma and Sumac spelled backward.

Yma Sumac was a Peruvian vocalist spent her childhood in the Andes Mountains, imitating the birds and the animals, unintentionally making her vocal range wider and wider. She performed at Carnegie Hall and World Record for the Greatest Range of Musical Value in 1956.

One glance at the political headlines is enough to send me screaming back to Japanese audiobooks.

@PulpLibrarian Why did I read this in Trump's voice? "They're fucking like dogs, they're fucking like cats in Springfield."

*Sigh* It's always the ones in the suburbs who hog the limelight. "Ooh, we're welcoming the equinox in the new conservatory this year. You'll have to take your shoes off..." Urban pagans in our small flats can never catch a break...