markwayne mullin answers reporters’ questions after his southeast louisiana lions are bounced from the first round of the southland conference tournament for the fourth straight year
heck, i’d do it for 75 million
thanks, i’m just thinking of where/how my trans students stand with respect to this legalese
what is a “suspect class,” genuinely asking here
[watching my new roofer guy working] damn he’s good, dude doesn’t even need a ladder
since herodotus, cannibalism is bound up in making foreign people the Other. it’s in the odyssey. it’s the oldest form of xenophobia. see 👇🏻
is that @craighorlbeck.bsky.social
at the end of plato’s symposium, socrates asserts that the same writer should be able to write comedy and tragedy but everyone’s drunk asleep so the dialogue just ends and he doesn’t elaborate
“ESCALATOR OUT OF ORDER, TEMPORARILY STAIRS HEARD THAT”
anytime i’m advising a student and the inevitable “why classics?” question comes up, i mention ted turner
we’re teaching things here
i co-run a student reading group on herbert smyth’s greek grammar and today we learned that FAFO qualifies as a future more vivid condition (present imperative protasis, future indicative apodosis): (if you) fuck around, and (you will) find out
ski slalom is hilarious because it requires you to get from point a to b in the most inconvenient way possible. my dad would would say it’s like reaching around your ass to scratch your elbow
“personal travel is not an excused absence” is literally in the student code of conduct
happy midterms and spring break travel conflict requests season to all my colleagues who celebrate
war college zambonis
zambonis are ai curling sweepers and should be eliminated
[awkward circle shape protruding out either side of my abdomen] i’ve never felt so proud
“they’re chasing you, and you gotta keep your front wheel one inch off your teammate’s rear, jimmy”
“yes, ok, hmm”
there’s one over in greenville, sc that’s basically an ice rink for fixed gear riders and it rules. also a short track
and s/o to my dad, lifelong cyclist, who took me to see the velodrome at the atlanta games and explained velo’s mindfuck format to me, aged 12
also everyone’s utterly delusional exhausted at race end. just outstanding
short track relay speed skaters and velodrome cyclists share the same fucked up psychologically of “we’re chasing them but they’re also chasing us.” truly cursed sports
marx and dickens were drinking buddies in soho; “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” hits so much harder with that context
acceptable water : milk balance
they call it “skeleton” luge because “severe spinal injury junkies” didn’t focus group well
if you perpetrate something this heinous in a greek tragedy, all of your friends and family wind up dead and you’re left to live with the aftermath
41-14 never forget 🐊
who’s on lunch pick up duty at the hadron collider facility this week [finger to nose]
[frontinus watching modern olympic sledding events and shaking his head] that’s too much drop across that distance, but you can’t argue with channel curvature over topography
