Elizabeth Hadaway

Confederate statue discourse coming back is a reminder to melt the statue down when you get the chance

I literally could not believe this but look

Some people ritually repost that Tom Holland umbrella lip sync video whenever they see it.
I ritually repost this Tom Hollander essay on his typical day.

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

ALoRoWaHAiBA Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It’s a surplice in the Virginia tradition, as Brooks was taught.

She has now been moved to Louisiana. This shouldn’t happen to *anyone* but it’s worth noting that she had a valid visa through next December. The whole Diocese of New York is furious, and I sure wouldn’t want those folks mad at me.

Air quality is dangerously poor today Monday August 4, with almost all monitors in WNY reading above 150 (unhealthy for all) - check in on neighbors who have underlying health conditions, and if you are outside, consider wearing a n95.
www.nyaqinow.net
map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...

my grandfather told of seeing a Gret Big Vanishing black dog in Virginia, on that part of the eastern continental divide called the Devil’s Backbone, between the Devil’s Peepover and the Devil’s Inkstand

Also baklava!

It is likely easy for the average person to eye-roll about professors complaining about students generating essays with bots, but the process of formulating an argument, a story, or a eulogy changes the writer, and, in its reading, can change readers as well.

captions are ketch as ketch can

If you're on Substack, here's a helpful article about why you might want to think about leaving the platform and how to do that. leavesubstack.com

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

Mirrored plaque the size of a U.S. automobile license plate, partially painted in black. The remaining mirrored surface reads “REMEMBER ECCL. NOW 12.1. THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH.” The “now” is curved like a rainbow. It was made around 1931.

The readings are all _so_ apropos

came here to say Villette!

Buffalo, Shakespeare in Delaware Park’s production of Richard III is cathartic as all get out! What a joy to see the play staged to bring out its current relevance, and what a pleasure to watch it from a picnic blanket, among clover and plantain, under the moon and stars.

Bright yellow stationery postcard with the name of Douglas Adams printed in red on the upper left corner. Handwritten in black is “Thank you for your letter, good to have helped with the problem of being fourteen. The obvious solution is to be fifteen for a bit. Best wishes, Douglas Adams”

This “rural people don’t deserve public broadcasting” lie has me looking to the Douglas Adams postcard. Radio Hitchhiker’s gave me such rare delight and wonder as an isolated Appalachian teenager. I never expected him to reply to my fan mail! That, and how, he did is still helpful.

the thing is that in wealthier, more liberal areas, the "viewers like you" may well make up the lost funding. in poorer, rural, more reactionary areas, that's the end of PBS and NPR and their affiliates

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

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Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne (keeping to the two-century rule, though I’d add Sayers if extending into c20)

and it’s never about how to calculate the date of Easter or cut a tonsure

fighting it like mold in my diocese

passage from “The Masque of the Red Death”: in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof. There was no light of any kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers. But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room. And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances…”

Ed Poe with ballroom details:

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Listen to sci fi and fantasy writers when we tell you what techno fascists are doing. We've been thinking about this stuff all our lives, and we know it when we see it.

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