JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH, by the by

I cannot wait to see what your collection looks like if (a) you keep up with this habit and (b) this is the type of art you keep going for

I have finally gotten good at grading essays at a resonably quick pace and it is one of the best things I've done for myself professionally. Still, with that said: I begin every stack with the same sense of dread.

I'm not convinced Frank will be the long run guy, but one thing I know for sure is that if we continue to do a roulette wheel of managers we aren't going to get any more stability or improvement.

A lot of Spurs fans seem to think that the Europa trophy was an indiciation of future trophies, rather than the dying (but glorious) gasp of the Kane/Son era as it ended. We finished SEVENTEENTH last year for God's sake.

Was friends with the family of the Orthodox priest in my hometown (12 kids!), and I was told that the Orthodox actually got the trinity RIGHT, unlike those dastardly Catholics. To me the answer seemed to be "Yes to the Trinity... but also kinda not really..."

My wife tells a story of her time seeing the musical on Broadway, her first time ever seeing a stage musical, in which she stood up, applauded, and got ready to leave right after "Defying Gravity." The right reaction!

ENDYMION and THE RISE OF ENDYMION are great novels, but both arguably didn't need the connection to HYPERION to tell the story they tell. (Though what a prescient connection the now-crank Simmons made in the '80s and '90s: interstellar AI collapse leads to Catholic theocracy. On point, Simmons!)

(This novella, by the by, is INCREDIBLE. A deathbed monologue by a character that's essentially Chilean Ross Douthat.)

Increasingly, I feel like a lot of Great Books crowd in the US feels like Father Lacroix from Bolano's BY NIGHT IN CHILE, who ine one memorable passage spends the entire Pinochet coup reading Thucydides and Aristotle, and then at the end of the coup says:

A Great Books program that did its damndest to speak out against the rise of business schools is a program whose mettle I'd trust. But too often, even when the programs aren't explicitly right-wing, they are quietist on the material conditions making Great Books study less probable.

This is particularly true at Great Books programs like Tulsa's, which charges nearly 50k in tuition annually. Those who can take the gamble/risk the student loan debt are those probably already materially comfortable for some degree. It's the unpaid internship problem.