The Spotify thing

My most played albums in 2025. A pretty typical assortment, I guess.

Mom

This little girl would’ve been 102 years old today.

RIP, Tom Stoppard

Stoppard was the author of the greatest (imo) English-language play of the last 50 years, “Arcadia,” and in “Leopoldstadt,” his last play, one of the most wrenching last scenes in the theater.

Grateful for Scarry

Happy Thanksgiving!

Two Hundred Twenty-one (plus) Memorable (to me) Movies

An up-to-date list from one of my first micro.blog posts.

Taboos

Jonah Goldberg:

We live in a world where violating taboos is monetizable and confers enviable status. I like taboos— not all of them, of course. But I respect the role of taboos in society. Good taboos are the guardians of settled questions. They sit like gargoyles at the mouth of dangerous caves and warn against spelunking in dark and dangerous places. …

The riot of taboo-violating and dogma-disinterring is an invitation to consequences few have the courage or the basic knowledge to apprehend.

If … you conjure a world where there is no external truth, only a riot of competing, equally valid perspectives, then you create a Nietzschean world where the only arbiter of “truth” is the one with the will and the power to impose their truth on everyone else.

Happy Sad Lovely

Hamnet. Lots of ideas told in a happy, sad, and lovely story. Recommended for people who like that kind of thing (of which I’m one). 🍿

Tour Eiffel

Wonderful, from The Public Domain Review: Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902).

My associate and I enjoy these patio lights