Stand by me, the “shop class / kids lose everything“ speech maybe

Agree. I also think we allow the obfuscation of our relationship with OverDrive / Libby, Hoopla, Kanopy, etc in ways that aren’t great. They are products of big corporations that we don’t own or control, and subscribe to instead of buying more physical books/media. Not sayin don’t use or buy but…

I’ve felt that it is an unreflectively mean-spirited show, and I am glad to read a piece that considers some of the mechanisms of that, among other things. It is interesting and useful to think critically about art.

I am so sorry for your loss. As a sometime-Portlander, and from your words here, I feel what an incredible mom and part of the community she was and is. Sending energy and thoughts of healing.

Incredible. Teachers read entire books aloud to my classes every year through 7th grade. Starting in 9th grade, we were reading plays aloud at least 2 or 3 times per year. This was the 00s. I don’t think my schools or district were especially unusual. I remember every in-class book to this day.

There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more

He wrote a lot of incredible plays, but my favorite remains Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which I will go see any production of. Stoppard directed the movie adaptation with Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Richard Dreyfuss: www.justwatch.com/us/movie/ros...

Ah, awesome! Thank you!