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• Post #3196784

  Just started scratching the long skin graft scar on my arm, like I do every day. All these years after I almost died (16 in September), it’s a marvel I’m alive

• Post #3196783

  Stars are out and there is sea enough beneath the glistening earth to bear me toward the future which is not so dark. I see. — Frank O’Hara, from “Digression on Number 1, 1948”

• Post #3196782

  The “Lemon of Troy” episode of The Simpsons aired thirty years ago this week, and Malcolm X was assassinated sixty years ago today. Ergo, more time has passed since the most iconic episode of S6 than passed between that show and the murder of iconic civil rights hero Malcolm el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz

• Post #3196781

  If we still have cultural historians in the 22nd century, a key question to pose will be “did we fetishize dangerous men, or was Luigi just that fine?” Man’s in sweaters and loafers, smoldering like a young Montgomery Clift

• Post #3196780

  I have many reactions to S2E4 of Severance, but my first and last is “oh shit they have too much money”

• Post #3196779

  WNBA all-time leading scorer, legend, also sufficiently funny that I often forget she went to UConn https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/44013848/diana-taurasi-wnba-all-leading-scorer-announces-retirement

• Post #3196778

  A reader reminded me of an essay I wrote almost fifteen years ago for the short-lived pop up magazine Longshot. The theme was “comeback.” I wrote about Odysseus, Auerbach, and Jerry Lee Lewis. The shorter published version may be lost, but I posted my long first draft: https://snarkmarket.com/2010/6242/

• Post #3196777

  "It was O’Toole’s Hamlet which showed Stoppard what Shakespeare could be: that it was exciting, and that it made sense." — Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life

• Post #3196776

  Today I had occasion to reread Marc Andreessen's 2020 essay "It's Time To Build," and it's a sign of how quickly so many people in SV have gone full fascist that today it almost reads like a progressive manifesto (reader, five years ago, it certainly did not) https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/

• Post #3196775

  “If both the tortoise shells and stalks oppose the views of men, inactivity will be auspicious but active operations will be unlucky." A good rule from the I Ching

• Post #3196774

  "For students to really feel the fire of math, they have to experience the gradient of confidence—the feeling of moving from something obvious to something not-obvious, pushed uphill by the motor of formal logic." — From Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg

• Post #3196773

  Some years ago, I was medically diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorder. Frankly, it was a relief, as my earlier attempts at self-diagnosis all found that I was “a stupid, lazy, whiny bitch about everything,” which is harder to treat

• Post #3196772

  My dad’s parents emigrated from Ireland to the US as young adults. They kept it pretty low key, but on one day in March every year, my grandmother would blast Irish music as loud as she could from her front porch. That was March 19, St Joseph’s Day, specifically to piss off all her Polish neighbors

• Post #3196771

  "We feel obliged to do everything we can to protect ourselves against uncertainty, and wearing comfy clothes we like is one way of doing this." — Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump

• Post #3196770

  I used GPT-4o to try to make a realistic version of Yukon Cornelius. First it gave me a very yassified version, but it accepted feedback to make him more canonically burly. Then I ran out of free generations.