yes, but not in school? had just seen it described so often that i thought it was Important.

Another small good thing: we've loved Priya Krishna's /Indian-ish/ as a cookbook for years.

Recently bought Priya's Kitchen Adventures for my son, and he's loved reading and cooking from it. The recipes are organized by country, and so it's prompted conversations, too. (Also, the food is good!)

After their marriage and before Romeo must flee, the lovers awaken. Sleepy, besotted, Juliet pretends the terrible morning hasn't come.

Romeo agrees to play along, knowing it would kill him. "Let's talk."

The play's deepest fantasy: having enough time to talk to those we love and must leave.

Another small good thing: Ella Fitzgerald's amazing Louis Armstrong impersonation, like here: youtu.be/uUH7MLLMkL4?...

I've enjoyed digging through YouTube for moments she uses it. (It's often in "Mack the Knife," by the way.)

I spent several months going to look at that tiger on your website before we got it! It's such a precious thing.

What great public communication from an archive!

oh like you don't do that every class

There's also a longish epistolary poem about platonic love in imitation of The Earl of Rochester's great poem Artemisa To Chloe. Has references to Skyrim and oxcontin and getting assaulted by a minor YBA (not tracy emin) You can read an earlier version of this one here if you want a taster

oh man, i thought this was a rhetorical "I" and you were about to announce that you were leading an online linocut class.

i was so in.