🎥 Linus and Lucy: with the Frank Granelli Trio, YouTube
Gestrin (piano) and Fisk (bass) struggling to leep up, but the master makes it look easy.
Finished reading: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell 📚
📰 This Corner of Texas Was Remote. Then Instagram Found It., WSJ.
For decades, this quirky cluster of trailers, hippies and a ghost town was a lonesome one, in a remote corner of Texas near the Mexico border, on the outskirts of one of the country’s least-visited national parks.
Now, the glass of scores of shiny new casitas glitters against rust-brown mountains.
First time watching Home Alone for the big kid. 📽
How it started…
How it’s going…
… and to all a goodnight. 📷
Veni Veni Immanuel, English and Latin (YouTube)
No post-Mass photo this year, but merry Christmas everyone!
The story of Christmas through masterpieces of painting (Culture Critic, thread on “X”).
Midnight in Arizona, which means it’s Christmas Eve. All my love and best wishes to each and every one of you, reading in your timelines or on my blog. Merry, merry Christmas.
The disdain for Substack is misplaced. It continues to be one of the best sources of good writing on the net. I encourage skeptics to consider Elle Griffin’s essay on the matter.
American Achilles in the War on Terror
John J. Waters interviews Emily Wilson at RealClearDefense about her new translation of Homer.
The arc of history demonstrates the activity of warfare is always changing; weapons, technology, and troop formations are constantly in flux. But the condition of war, how people experience combat, remains largely unchanged.
Excellent interview.
Moving my Academic website (from Github) to Hugo is my 2024 project. I need to find some readings on porting or writing a custom theme so that the home page is a landing page, the blog is in the background, and supports Maxjax for the (very rare) use of LaTeX.
Anyone who has advice, hit me up.
Orrin Kerr reminds me (on “X”) that Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder is 60 years old today. 🤯
We just ordered Papa John’s ‘Shaq-a-Roni (Thrillist) pizza. What’s the over/under on how long it takes my 8 and 6 year old to eat the whole thing? 🍕
🗞️Rudy Giuliani files for backruptcy, WSJ
From the NYT:
On Wednesday, the judge overseeing the election worker case… ordered Mr. Giuliani to start paying the two women immediately out of concerns that he might “conceal his assets” if he were allowed to wait the typical 30 days.
The little one saw her first bunny, in our back yard of all places. But then it ran off with his food and now she’s devastated. “I love it” she’s sobbing. 🐰
It’s all fun and games until your little brother kicks out the (already very loose) baby tooth. Hashtag-Christmas-miracle.
Near complete agreement with @ayjay on the Fediverse:
The fediverse would be a great thing if so many of the people using the various social media platforms weren’t simply seeking to continue all the bad behavior that made Twitter “the hellsite.”
Honestly, I didn’t have the Colorado Supreme Court on my bingo card.
Got a paper submitted. I think I spent more time formatting to the journal’s house style than I did writing the thing. But it’s off. A Christmas miracle.