Yes. Fascinating Decoder Ring podcast segment on waterbeds: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I heap praise upon you but the sobbing is also good

You think it’s Mid-dlemarch?

Ohio is an excellent nomination. New York has a solid claim as well; it doesn't have the south, but it has French-Canadian New England in the north, Wisconsin lake country in the middle, Appalachia and the agricultural midwest in the west, Great Lakes/rust belt, and all the things NYC is.

Nice, thank you!

Looks great—and intriguing! What is your oven process for drying?

Wahoowa! Congratulations!

I am excited to do the same thing in my fall class--but S&S will come up in late September. Is there any way to get access to the essay before the book comes out? (I promise I'm buying the book as soon as I'm able to.) I understand if I need to wait!

I am all for the ramping up of pedantry, but it really is 1%, right? Percentiles divide distributions into 100 parts, thus “centile.”

Well, they’re very literally 1%. But 90th or above, yes, 10%.

Learning that bunnies are not, in fact, cute was the first lesson shared by my midwestern in-laws when we moved here.

Right, that's not the full title--just the title of the middle section. The three stages of the story are Oedipus Rocks, Oedipus Wrecks, and Oedipus Reeks.

Yes!

Yes. It’s of a piece with the attack on the professions. Doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers and professors, government workers, union labor. Anyone who might have felt their work is reliable and valued.

Accurately categorized as junk mail. Really sorry to hear this, Joe.

I live two time zones east of my team. Love the ghost runner. Come out come out little ghosties! It’s time for sleep!