Pie-charting the appalling gender imbalance of the literary world, based on author bylines and books reviewed. See the full data set here.
Podcasting and academia don’t fare any better.
Fifty years later, “the problem that has no name” has both a name and numbers, but little seems to have changed.
“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research “childhood.”
— Michael Chabon
Save the EU
The gray-haired lady with a disregard for speed limits zipped around corners in her sports car, a little yellow one that had a “Save the EU” sticker on the bumper. She tossed her head back a little as she passed me, probably late for tea.
I jot a lot of notes on the train. Today’s topic: @allie_townsend
Well, golly.
Dream
… that I was in Chicago watching a group of mimes act out episodes of “Pete & Pete.” It was some form of progressive avant garde miming meant to metaphor some society suck I wasn’t aware of. Or so said the angry mob after I laughed during “The Strongest Man in the World” bit.
San Francisco Public Transit, The List
1. Put $40 on Clipper card. Rode train. Immediately lost Clipper card.
2. Rode Muni in the wrong direction for two stops before strutting across the platform in obvious attempt to “act natural.”
3. Missed Bart by approximately 3.2569 seconds and had to wait another hour for the Caltrain home.
4. Had no snacks.
5. Decided crazy population of California isn’t crazy. These people are just fed up with public transportation and without granola.
