A Poem by Howard Thurman
2024-12-03
The day after Christmas can be a letdown. For weeks, sometimes months in advance, we prepare for the coming of this single day. We write Christmas lists, gather lists from others, go shopping for gifts, put up decorations, listen to seasonal music, plan elaborate meals, light candles on the Advent wreath and then the day comes and goes in 24 hours just like any other day. Then what?
All of that build-up for a brief few moments that swiftly join the stream of history leave us with a sense of both fatigue and bewilderment.
A poem by taylor swift In Summation
2024-12-03
At this hearing
I stand before my fellow members
of the Tortured Poets Department
With a summary of my findings
A debrief, a detailed rewinding
For the purpose of warning
For the sake of reminding
As you might all unfortunately recall
I had been struck with a case
of a restricted humanity
Which explains my plea here today
of temporary insanity
You see, the pendulum swings
Oh, the chaos it brings
A Political 'Dress' and Test
2024-12-03
In January of this year, Dr. Yoel Inbar, a tenured professor at University of Toronto, interviewed for but did not receive a job offer at UCLA. Recently, two different UCLA graduate student letters written around the time of the case have appeared online. Additionally, Dr. Inbar has been interviewed in a podcast and an article has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education. There has been a fair bit of misinformation online and assumptions made about the impact of the initial student letter that opposed Dr.
a post mortem (part two)
2024-12-03
This is part two of Flo and I reviewing The Tortured Poets Department because she released a fucking DOUBLE album. the tortured poets department: a post mortem (part one)HERE is the breakup song besties.
FINALLY, SOME FOLKLORE/ EVERMORE VIBES!!!!
lol we had NOTHING to say… is that bad? Should I have lied?
Flo and I rn:
I swear if Flo doesn’t get a shout out from Taylor Swift one day she’ll combust.
A Proposal: The Bestsellers Hall of Fame
2024-12-03
Hey friends!
I’m back from vacation! It was tremendously wonderful and I can’t wait to go back to Italy. Usually, I can’t wait to get back to work and my regular, consistent life, but this time, my vacation was so great I didn’t feel that normal life, please! itch. Also, I brought BIG SWISS and only read about 50 pages of it, lol.
Now, back to regular life. Remember when I wrote about how the New York Times bestsellers list shouldn’t be your main goal?
In the 2000s, there was a string of mid to low-budget horror slashers that were often written off as “torture porn,” a coalition-of-moms-approved, catch-all term for films that were seen as nothing more than cheap gorefests. The intrinsic problem with that phrase was that a lot of insanely fun, captivating films with genuine artistic merit were often shuffled into a category created to write these films off entirely so they wouldn’t poison the minds of impressionable teens.
Chocolate Soufflé may be one of the most romantic desserts I can think of. Perfect for Valentine’s Day. It’s warm, rich chocolate, with a luscious texture, and whomever you bake it for will be spellbound by its almost magical loft. I used to think this was a dessert you could, should, and would only bake on a special occasion. The stress of getting it right was as great as the feeling of absolute elation at seeing the soufflé expanding in the oven.
A QTIP for QTIP Trusts
2024-12-03
A quick note - when I wrote this article in 2022, I was approaching it from an academic perspective. But, I have since encountered multiple 706s with the reporting errors described herein. I have a feeling that a lot of experienced practitioners got used to general power of appointment marital trusts, which are different from QTIP marital trusts in that there is no election to be made. This may have resulted in a lot of misreporting, especially for QTIP marital trusts that are treated like general power of appointment marital trusts on the 706 (despite a lack of a general power of appointment).
A Queer Anthemic Journey in Pop
2024-12-03
Hello.
Chappell Roan’s music defines the queer experience in the most cunty girly pop pink fairy princess sort of way. And I love it. Let me tell you why…
But first, a little intro. Chappell Roan, originally from Willard, Missouri, where she grew up Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, had a rather conventional Midwestern upbringing before catapulting into the pop music limelight. Her small-town roots and the traditional values surrounding her during her formative years play a significant role in the authenticity and depth of her music.