Category: etc
Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double
(trying to do these more regularly, so they don’t get so loooong)
A Brief Visual History of On-Screen Text Messages in Movies and TV
Was there in November—Madrid first, then Barcelona, right up until Turkey Day here in the States—but started that vampire novel right after, so: am only just now posting the media from that week and a half there. Not sure where all the photos &etc ended up, but, here’s what I find, scraping Twitter:
…The Insane True Story of How Doctor Wesley Snipes Wrote His First Novel | LitReactor
How ‘The X-Files’ changed pop culture and the internet as we know it | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/style/ancient-skeletons-shoes-jewels-rome-scn?cid=ios_app
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-rock-art-painted-by-aboriginal-people-dep…
I know X is terrible now—”now,” yes—but every once in a while, you can still find something amazing and perfect and timeless:
…Wife wasn’t in town to do fancy make-up for me like usual, so had to fall back on an old standard. In stages:
Was fun walking around campus, catching looks from the undergrads like, Geez, grow up already?…