Noah S. McKinnon

nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party

I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song.Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA.Various vein-openings at: <a href="https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon</a>

Posts

Post #4204122
We&#39;re rewatching Mockingjay, and I had never had this thought before: imagine being the soldiers who had to cut a million fucking white roses *and* figure out how to store them efficiently on bombers so they could be airdropped over District 13.
Post #4204121
smoking that shit that made Graig Nettles&#39; mom name him that
Post #3118084
This poll was inspired by overhearing @MagicIsTheCause quote The Birdcage. How do you naturally pronounce &quot;gazongas?&quot;
Post #2931943
smoking that shit that made Sherlock Holmes think Cornish was a Semitic language
Post #2931941
Vein-openings I promised, and vein-openings you shall have. In this one, I finally exorcise a demon that’s been sitting on my chest for six years: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/no-such-thing-as-unskilled-labor-and-other-things/
Post #1677596
on pie crusts, Alysa Liu, and writing: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/scribo-quod-scribo/
Post #1589729
On guilt, shared responsibility, and watching the United States government destroy both the islands whose heritage I claim: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/history-will-not-absolve-us/
Post #1186371
Every time USians on here get get up about doomers/defeatists/pessimists/buzzkills/downers, I&#39;m reminded that the prerogative of every imperial citizenry is to demand someone else fix their problems—including, especially, the ones they themselves created. More: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/why-doom/
Post #1088782
Judging by its place on the draft list, I&#39;ve been trying to write this one for over two weeks. I would&#39;ve gotten it out sooner, but I kept having to fix other people&#39;s problems. That&#39;ll be a much funnier sentence once you read the article. https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/mentats-in-search-of-a-butlerian-jihad/
Post #746636
One last time: if you thought this year’s Team USA was an aberration, j have news for you. They’re not good news. If you like it and you want to read more, feel free to subscribe! https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/cleats-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever/
Post #722301
If I&#39;d had my &#39;druthers, I would&#39;ve finished this before the WBC final. As it turns out, it was worth waiting to see how much, once Venezuela won, it suddenly became OK to say what I&#39;ve always said about Team USA. On cop-coded ballplayers of now and yesteryear: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/cleats-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever/
Post #582481
She skitters darkly, like the night Of cheerless climes and smoky skies; And all that’s best of dark and bug Meet in her aspect and her mug; Thus sitting in that spider face Which sits in Mordor’s deathly caves. - Lord Byron, circa Third Age 3019