Go get ‘em.

TWtimwatson.bsky.socialSep 3, 2024 1:22pm

I read 520 pp of McKinsey strategic planning documents for the University of Florida so you don’t have to. You’ll be shocked, *shocked* to learn these documents have nothing to say about the content of UF’s educational and research mission, and a great deal to say about workforce development. Long 🧵

Plea for help. Looking for short literary texts or artworks or film clips about expressways, their impacts on communities, and non-automotive relations to them? (For ex. Manzanar Murakami conducting traffic in Tropic of Orange)

Unbelievable to me that it is 5 years since David Berman took his life. Thinking of him today. Wrote this last year about his indelible poems and their insights into the despoliation of American landscapes post45.org/2023/01/davi...

David Berman’s Edge Cities: Poetry, Commercial Real Estate, Municipal Feeling - Post45

In Roe Ethridge’s cover photograph for David Berman’s book of poems Actual Air (1999), two glass office towers rise over a row of pines (fig. 1). Below, a dry and grassy wastage does a poor impression...

I’d been back in Baltimore about 3 weeks when John Waters sidled up to my 5y.o. & friends as they gazed into the fountainwater at the BMA sculpture garden & asked “seen any sharks?” At first I disbelieved the truth before my eyes because JW sports the same, shameful “final sale beige” Allbirds as me

RIP James Scott, anarchic anthropologist and political scientist. I will continue to contemplate his accounts of tubers and taxation with deep admiration and a fragment of wonder. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Against the Grain

An Economist Best History Book 2017  “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian  “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by expo...

Shelley Duvall was many things besides her early Altman gigs, but she was the very Virgil to the infernal Astrodomes of the 1970s New West. RIP to a great guide www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqS...

Brewster McCloud (1970) - Welcome To The Astrodome | Shelley Duvall

First appearance of Shelley Duvall in her debut as tour-guide Suzanne in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud, 1970.

Volunteer tomato plant growing in a crack in the pavement 🌱

RIP Melville scholar whose late career work on menhaden catalyzed the return of whales to New York harbor. (Which parts define us, etc) www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...

Self portrait of the gardener as a garlic scape medusa 🌱

Could not figure out why I kept this shabby copy of Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Living City then I realized it comes from Walter Netsch’s library. Wish I knew how I got it