Is this a new season? I don't remember this...

Unparalleled expression of care

This is odd, but I’d fully created a headcanon etymology that the phrase refers to the (by mid-20th c, near-worthless) Indian coin “pie,” as in I sold it off for a pie / got rid of it. But I can find no evidence of this etymology!

Verily! I know how exciting it is to feel excited about something you poured your heart and soul into, and that our brains don't always let us feel that way, so: Brava!

SHAILY, I hope you see you absolutely did just drop your biggest single yet after saying "couch! couch! couch!" this morning

Telling people I enjoyed their books is one of the unmitigated joys of conferencing

I refuse to believe that a dust jacket is an insurmountable expense for a UP or major European academic publishing house. What customer will pay $100 for a volume who wouldn’t pay $115+ for one with a plain cover and dust jacket? /3

At that particular moment, neither did Rumi

You’re about to drop a new single tonight, aren’t you?

“Saldaya took the term [radical responsibility] from a self-help book aimed at CEOs and business leaders... In FBS, to take radical responsibility means that a freebirthing mother assumes complete responsibility for all the outcomes of her birth, including her own death or that of her child.”

It’s not that people in tenure-track jobs don’t have these problems, it’s just that they’ve been captured into thinking that no matter what the problem, their job provides the only solution

There was once a Family Feud question, “Name a game you play for money,” and this kid buzzed in lightning speed with “Magic the Gathering.” Confusion ensues — in the live studio, where nobody had heard of MtG, and among MtG fans, who thought the question was about games where you *make* money