Lawrence Culver
@lawrencecphd.bsky.social
Historian of environment/climate/disaster/cities/culture. SLC via AL and LA; UCLA Bruin. Book: The Frontier of Leisure: SoCal and the Shaping of Modern America; currently writing a book about climate and history in the US and North America.
I mean, I’m a USA-ite and I still have to hear about Eurovision, so . . .
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I mean, I’m a USA-ite and I still have to hear about Eurovision, so . . .
I hate it when people talk during a film. In the middle of that t e r r i b l e movie, I involuntarily and loudly yelped, “THERE’S A F*CKING SITH PLANET?!?”
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I hate it when people talk during a film. In the middle of that t e r r i b l e movie, I involuntarily and loudly yelped, “THERE’S A F*CKING SITH PLANET?!?”
“But in the dingy atrium, sipping a $10 coffee, I had rarely felt less jiggy.” Oof.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“But in the dingy atrium, sipping a $10 coffee, I had rarely felt less jiggy.” Oof.
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Every time I open this app right now
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Every time I open this app right now
And she’s the new “West Coast Editor” for Vanity Fair! (This presumably because she tragically went into what she’s called her “self imposed exile” . . . in MALIBU.)
If anyone still needs proof that beyond a certain point some people only fail upwards, I’d say this is it.
If anyone still needs proof that beyond a certain point some people only fail upwards, I’d say this is it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
And she’s the new “West Coast Editor” for Vanity Fair! (This presumably because she tragically went into what she’s called her “self imposed exile” . . . in MALIBU.)
If anyone still needs proof that beyond a certain point some people only fail upwards, I’d say this is it.
If anyone still needs proof that beyond a certain point some people only fail upwards, I’d say this is it.
Who wants to abolish all humanities departments, and possibly the humanities entirely?
“People who truly ‘visioned’ the potential synergies and multipliers in opportunities.”
Once your university administrators start talking like people who’ve just had a stroke, you know your school is in trouble.
“People who truly ‘visioned’ the potential synergies and multipliers in opportunities.”
Once your university administrators start talking like people who’ve just had a stroke, you know your school is in trouble.
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Who wants to abolish all humanities departments, and possibly the humanities entirely?
“People who truly ‘visioned’ the potential synergies and multipliers in opportunities.”
Once your university administrators start talking like people who’ve just had a stroke, you know your school is in trouble.
“People who truly ‘visioned’ the potential synergies and multipliers in opportunities.”
Once your university administrators start talking like people who’ve just had a stroke, you know your school is in trouble.
“There had been no plan for how to evacuate campers…the evacuation was improvised, as the water level rose more rapidly than they had ever seen.”
No evacuation plan at a camp for children by a river in a region with a history of flood tragedies. A terrible—but hardly unexpected—disaster.
No evacuation plan at a camp for children by a river in a region with a history of flood tragedies. A terrible—but hardly unexpected—disaster.
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
“There had been no plan for how to evacuate campers…the evacuation was improvised, as the water level rose more rapidly than they had ever seen.”
No evacuation plan at a camp for children by a river in a region with a history of flood tragedies. A terrible—but hardly unexpected—disaster.
No evacuation plan at a camp for children by a river in a region with a history of flood tragedies. A terrible—but hardly unexpected—disaster.