I’m so excited to send it out into the world!

Damn. One of mine is in there.

We call it synchrotracking! It’s the best!

At which point you gotta ask yourself: “Prohibited by whom?”

At which point I would say that legality has been, historically, a poor judge of what’s right. One should be just, not obedient. (And I certainly don’t mean to belabor this. It’s interesting to me, too.)

Wouldn’t it be entirely situational? Doesn’t matter if it’s illicit. Definitely matters if you’re on parole, or if you are, concurrently, breaking another law: your van is full of moonshine, don’t speed. But that’s self preservation—maybe different than what you’re after.

Not a law professor either, but I would say—with backup from Thoreau and Arendt—that one has a duty to break an immoral law. As George Stranahan said to me: “if it’s a dumb law, you gotta break it.”

A mistake I see everywhere! (Downside to the popularization/education of psych, I guess?) I teach that you can remember it if you remember that you can diss, or distance yourself from a shitty associate—disassociate.

Patricia Lockwood wrote wonderfully on “Bear” in the LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Whenever I meet someone who has that fresh enthusiasm for cocktails, it takes me a breath to back off from remembering the citrus driven indigestion of Tales, and remember, instead, how good drinks like that one are.

Eventually it will!

Thank you.

Yuck

Okay not to be an idiot or
whatever, but his stage name is Alice? He wears tons of makeup? He made a whole career out of scaring the normies? WTF?

Exactly

By section (philosophy, outdoors, the low life, horse racing, cooking, etc) and then the big sections (fiction, cooking) are organized by levels of affection with eye level being the highest honor.

And, speaking as a former short-order griddle cook, if you say “fried” in certain old school settings there’s a very good chance you’ll get an egg griddled on both sides, broken yolk, cooked firm.

Over easy is often pulled off by flipping sunny eggs onto the plate.