Tom Hove
@tomhove.bsky.social
You didn't highlight "this ambivalent earth"?
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
You didn't highlight "this ambivalent earth"?
"We don't referee the news, it just gets mystically transmitted through us because we're the chosen vessels."
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"We don't referee the news, it just gets mystically transmitted through us because we're the chosen vessels."
I remember hearing this nice tribute to him on my WILL Urbana radio station:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Charles Schulz: A Great and Good Man - Charles Schulz: A Great and Good Man - 18 February 2000
transcript for Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I remember hearing this nice tribute to him on my WILL Urbana radio station:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
Great detail of Stone's sloping forehead, "villainous low."
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Great detail of Stone's sloping forehead, "villainous low."
As I remember, that was Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign message in 2020: "Vote for me because I know how things work in Washington. And the way things work is that nothing will ever get done."
Inspiring.
Inspiring.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As I remember, that was Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign message in 2020: "Vote for me because I know how things work in Washington. And the way things work is that nothing will ever get done."
Inspiring.
Inspiring.
This kid knows what's what.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This kid knows what's what.
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Fever was cool (but I only read it and saw the film).
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The Fever was cool (but I only read it and saw the film).
Exactly what I was thinking
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Exactly what I was thinking
Just retire and enjoy your insider trading wealth. My god.
October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Just retire and enjoy your insider trading wealth. My god.
I feel so much better doing slow running. I feel refreshed and energized afterward, not exhausted.
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I feel so much better doing slow running. I feel refreshed and energized afterward, not exhausted.
For a moment I was wondering what Weird Al had to do with all this.
September 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
For a moment I was wondering what Weird Al had to do with all this.
Yeah, my more than 25-year-old memories of the novel are probably flawed. And I realized that, even in the reading I proposed, what the daughters are doing is, yes, gaslighting — albeit benevolent.
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Yeah, my more than 25-year-old memories of the novel are probably flawed. And I realized that, even in the reading I proposed, what the daughters are doing is, yes, gaslighting — albeit benevolent.
Which would also mean that his daughters — quite the opposite of gaslighting him — are trying to protect him from facing up to his own inconsequentialness.
September 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Which would also mean that his daughters — quite the opposite of gaslighting him — are trying to protect him from facing up to his own inconsequentialness.
Anyway, no matter whether he thinks he did right or wrong during the war, the issue might be moot because nobody actually cares or remembers what he did.
September 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Anyway, no matter whether he thinks he did right or wrong during the war, the issue might be moot because nobody actually cares or remembers what he did.
Apologies if I'm stating the obvious.
September 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Apologies if I'm stating the obvious.
It's been a long time, but as I recall the way the narrative irony worked, he spends a lot of effort justifying his propagandizing for the imperialists, or establishing his innocence in getting swept up in the cause. But the reality might be that he was a lot less consequential than he imagined.
September 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It's been a long time, but as I recall the way the narrative irony worked, he spends a lot of effort justifying his propagandizing for the imperialists, or establishing his innocence in getting swept up in the cause. But the reality might be that he was a lot less consequential than he imagined.
Benjamin Labatut's The MANIAC is a great novel about those early years of AI and computing.
September 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Benjamin Labatut's The MANIAC is a great novel about those early years of AI and computing.
This Is Spinal Tap. I'd recommend something else if I weren't so heavily sedated.
August 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This Is Spinal Tap. I'd recommend something else if I weren't so heavily sedated.
The first one was just a series of scenes with two men in a room trying to outsmart each other. I didn't feel compelled to continue.
August 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The first one was just a series of scenes with two men in a room trying to outsmart each other. I didn't feel compelled to continue.
I was long past due checking out on that show when I realized I was supposed to care about whether Turtle would get some bullshit limited edition shoes.
August 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I was long past due checking out on that show when I realized I was supposed to care about whether Turtle would get some bullshit limited edition shoes.
Sanjuro's final sword duel is the greatest. I won't spoil it any further though.
August 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sanjuro's final sword duel is the greatest. I won't spoil it any further though.