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Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population. livescience.com/animals/orcas/
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rise like orcas after slumber
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Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population. livescience.com/animals/orcas/
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"Don't Stop Believin'" is better than anything by the Sex Pistols. I will live my truth
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If we can reverse the course of climate collapse, and this is as good a reason as any to do so, we will see that day when this is a matter of general or even planetary agreement
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"Don't Stop Believin'" is better than anything by the Sex Pistols. I will live my truth
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just a heads-up, i am not going through the whole trump-biden thing again, so you need to come up with a different plan, you sick fucks
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should i fail a student for saying in response to my reference to looney tunes: "ah, old people cartoons"
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mom: what model is yr car
me: Subaru Crosstrek, why
mom: I need to pray for yr safety on the road
me: & you can't just say "car"? you have to specify the model? God doesn't already know it?
mom: just let me pray how I want
me: ok have fun saying "Subaru Crosstrek" to God
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one of my earliest memories is being captivated by the melody of Gordon Lightfoot's "Edmund Fitzgerald" playing on the radio as my dad drove us across a bridge in Wichita. must have been 1976. it was the first time I asked "What is this song?" I still like it. RIP
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my student wrote “Pontius Pilot” in a poem & another student said “no it’s spelled like Pilates without the s”
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I dunno, I think you can hold simultaneously that NATO expansion is not necessarily benign, that many elements of the Ukrainian military are far-right or worse, & that Russia is an authoritarian nightmare run by a dangerous psychopath
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i read my students an epigram of ezra pound's & one responded "what in the actual fuck." then i read a little piece by antonio machado & a different student said "ok this guy hits." so the youth have spoken
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Must have been 2017 that Milford Graves told me a story about how Albert Ayler screwed him out of a gig with Coltrane. And the first thing he said about Ayler was "I don't believe he was murdered. Sun Ra just made that up"
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Pictures: the lsraeli aggression on Gaza Strip tonight, April 7.
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Michael Robbins on Proust and the Grateful Dead
Read more about 's authoritative new edition of Marcel Proust’s The Captive and The Fugitive here: ow.ly/PYlE50NxtYF
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Michael Robbins on Proust and the Grateful Dead
Read more about 's authoritative new edition of Marcel Proust’s The Captive and The Fugitive here: rb.gy/e6gj
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that's the way it's been in town / ever since they tore the proust box down
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"All Proust and the Dead and Star Wars have in common externally is a propensity to go on for too long"
the conclusion of my piece on Proust & the Dead (Swann's Picks, Vol. 2) for
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"The only claim I want to make in this piece is that time is a motherfucker."
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Reading “À la recherche du temps perdu” and streaming live Dead shows each take some devotion of time, which is kind of the point. Michael Robbins on doing both, together #Proust
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Typically rich piece by , this time on Proust and the Grateful Dead, for
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Swann's Picks: first part of my thing about Proust & the Grateful Dead for (part two tomorrow)
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ran into a couple on the trail while i was watching a woodpecker & they started asking me questions about birds & i answered them confidently, just absolutely making shit up
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