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Jeff Porter
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Full-time dad. Part-time academic. Aspiring snowboard bum. #goducks
This @mereorthodoxy.bsky.social essay is great. Better cultural commentary than I expected. mereorthodoxy.com/the-nightmar...
The Nightmare Before Christmas Is About Disenchantment
Tim Burton's classic 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is best understood as a disenchantment and reenchantment story.
mereorthodoxy.com
December 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM
There’s a somewhat (but not too much) embarrassing theme in my top 5 podcasts this year.

@dailyzeitgeist.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @theresthistory.bsky.social @danielobrien.bsky.social @dissectpodcast.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Reposted by Jeff Porter
it’s all fun and games until it’s time to GRADE ONE METRIC TON OF ESSAYS 📑
December 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Nice of Oregon to put in Dante Moore and give Washington a preview of how they’ll beat them the next few years. #goducks
December 1, 2024 at 3:40 AM
I know his books are intended for a superfan audience that is undaunted by critique from the liberal elites, but some of these reviews are *chef’s kiss*. “It is unclear whether he believes in God. He certainly does not believe in rational argument.”

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan Peterson review — rambling, hectoring and mad
The conservative polemicist’s new book is a bizarre study of the Bible featuring Jiminy Cricket, Harry Potter and Tinkerbell the porn fairy
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:17 PM