Skiz Fernando just published a DOOM book that supposedly gets into this to some degree.

a "closed sesame." if you will.

It’s like I used to tell musicians when I wrote about music: If you can be dissuaded, you will be.

What a trove!

I wrote a @chronicle.com essay highlighting some warning signs that a college or academic program might be in financial trouble. It's crucial for students, faculty, and staff to keep their eyes open to see potential issues as soon as possible so they can make plans.

Is Your College About to Close?

Here are the telltale signs of financial distress.

But only among Black folks ha. Don’t think I ever sold one of those tapes to a white person

I sold a lot of Peabo Bryson tapes back in the ‘80s

That meant more rain once they made landfall, and while hurricanes are rated as threats by wind speed, they do the most damage through storm surge and rain. Obviously that’s on my mind today, along with all the folks I know and love in East Tennessee and all the folks in Western NC /2

Years ago, I did a bunch of reporting on climate change. I remember a conversation with a researcher at MIT who told me that while science could not predict whether there’d more cyclonic storms, researchers were 100% that the storms we did get would be more powerful, wetter, and slower-moving. 1/

Everybody stay safe out there.