This book made me hate reading.
Year in Review 2016.5 HD Final REmix: Music
This album never gets old.
When History Has Its Eyes On You: Addressing Criticisms of HAMILTON
I held out a whole year before finally succumbing to the Hamilton bug, but succumb I did.
Year in Review 2016.5 HD Final REmix: Podcasts
The Allusionist is like the 99% Invisible of language: sometimes it's about everyday, practical stuff, sometimes it's about obscure historical oddities, sometimes it's about big-picture thinking, but it's always well-presented.
Cinders
It was the first of the three Royal Balls.
Impeachment: Far Too Little and Way Too Late
The House vote to impeach the president accomplishes almost nothing.
Echo Chambers and Bubbles
One of the things I've noticed about political posts on social media is that, when it doesn't turn into an argument, it's basically just a person who already knows how much the current administration/Congress sucks posting yet another sucky thing they did or said and then a bunch of other people who already know current administration/Congress sucks being like "Argh, that sucks."
Another Poem for Brautigan’s Rainbow Trout
They make waterproof phones now;
Paraklausithyron
On the Face Of It: The Design of Money
The fact that pieces of paper have power isn't what bothers me about money. I can understand pieces of paper having power; a lot of power resides in language, and paper is a common vessel for language (not to mention art, though the two are not, I think, unrelated, especially in this context). But U.S. bills are just weird.
Certain of Eventual Failure 