@tcarmody
Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist. I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. PHL. Everything changes; don’t be afraid. https://timcarmody.com
In this recording, Yeats talks about how "Lake Isle of Innisfree" is the only poem of his that is well-known, which is a little odd because he'd already published "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," etc., and they were hugely influential media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...
Everyone should know what Yeats actually sounded like. Even for an Anglo-Irishman of his generation, his reading voice is so distinctive media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...
must be nice to live in a gyre
Not so clever a pun but I used to call the little neighborhood between 57th and 59th St on Manhattan's west side where I lived "Hell's Kitchen Cabinets"
another day volunteering in Bethlehem. everyone asks me about the rough beast. buddy, they don't even let me slouch towards it
I had a dream last night that I had to export my dissertation into PDF to print it on the Penn Comp Lit printer again, only it came out all wire-bound like an old-timey coursepack, and it was like 600 pages long
(not the point of your tweet, I am just curious what's happening these days)
Your students submit essays as PDFs?
Learn from our mistakes, children
Israel also attacked UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding three Ghanaian soldiers
Hot ham water
I hate to pick on headlines but so many whole columns can easily be rebutted with a "Look, Man"
This doesn't seem good: Turkey's sending fighter jets to northern Cyprus aje.news/ozn6u2?updat...
I added more cream and that seems to have helped, but it's still not a perfect cup
Pretty but stupid
Look, man — the U.S. elected a President more deeply in bed with the most military-friendly AI companies who's fundamentally hostile to regulation of ALL kinds and has a belligerent foreign policy posture. This shit changes! All the time! Elect different people!
We were promised AI regulation — now we're arguing about killer robots
Debating starting a blog/newsletter called "Look, Man" that just solves people's fake/rhetorical problems in a few sentences.
For example, this headline applied to Steven Levy's latest:
Jesus Nav, I fear for you
that was my strategy with the second cup
You and @bethanykj.bsky.social are on the same page
On the left, totally awesome Detroit Tigers full-zip jacket modeled by a black guy with great hair. On the right, super square version of the same jacket with snaps modeled by a handsome but fundamentally dorky white guy
For those curious about an update on the good/bad Detroit Tigers jacket: I ordered the jacket on the left from Kohl's (free shipping!), only to get my order cancelled. They said it was out of stock. Now it's not available anywhere in my size. I refuse to see about the jacket on the right.
Americano eh?
It's a paradox!
Coffee being too strong is like a man being too handsome
May have fucked up the coffee this morning by making it too strong? Seems fake
Looking good though
The Mozart of movies
Gotta punch up "stakes-based word" Nilay, that phrase sucks
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Really important to wear your chef’s coat for this sort of thing