Favorite photo of 2025: Great Ocean Road, Victoria Australia
05.01.2026 22:46
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Favorite photo of 2025: Great Ocean Road, Victoria Australia
Die Fledermaus is the perfect operetta. That is all.
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Water rights are going to be fun…
Clouds in NE New Mexico
Happy Bastille Day! It's always important to remember the holiday's most important message: no matter how bleak things look, never stop standing up to Nazis.
And we all breathe again.
Cover of music for piano and voice featuring a vengeful lion and songs about children who misbehaved and suffered hideous fates. Music by Liza Lehmann, verse by Hillaire Belloc.
Triaging my great-aunt’s sheet music collection. This is a keeper…
Except Carney’s French is notoriously bad, but the point still stands.
An honor to hear this learned and incisive person talk about their life and work. #acls
I looked like an enormous punk tangerine
Judging high-school videos for the state German competition. This year's best line: "Sie sieht aus wie eine möchte-gern Angela Merkel..." That is a banger. Teenagers (especially if they are someone else's) will always amaze and delight -- such a clever bunch this year!
Paganini may have used his thumb but I can’t…
Sunsets 1 and 2 at 18:20
Austin blizzard
Visiting one of my bestest friends from grad school. She suggested that historians are “over invested in reality.” This strikes me as a statement of genius.
Home with the Parental Unit means….elderflower mead. Prost, Góð Jól, and Happy Hanukkah!
GSA mit Schlag
…and historian (particularly those of us specializing in German and Central European history)
Uttered by me today in the citrus aisle to a shopper looking for large oranges: “It isn’t the size of the navel but the quality of contemplation that counts.” Possibly this is why I ought not to go out alone….
Visiting unfamiliar conference territories and having a lovely time! #AATG #ACTFL2024
The cookie has spoken.
It is always a delight to introduce a new crop of students to “Venus Noire.” @parisnoire.bsky.social has a whole new bunch of fans.
The 12-century royal court version of #thegsa2024 is ready to make its annual progress. Have Stempel, will travel.
Wien
