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I wrote about a slightly comical musical experience.

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Re: Ross’s column on the virtues of ideological art, I think there are far more virtues to art that resists or defies our familiar categories. But most readers/viewers/listeners when encountering a work that can’t be placed on their game board just call it “not relatable.”

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TIL that the official title of King George III’s dentist was Operator for the Teeth.

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I wrote about John and Paul.

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My bet is that Nico Harrison will trade the rights to the number 1 pick to Cleveland in exchange for Tristan Thompson. 🏀

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I had a good time corresponding with Phil Christman about John Milton, his great big poem, and Wlliam Blake.

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This seems a good time to mention that the “X is dead” discourse has been mighty strong these past few years, and I wrote about it here and here. The quote at the end of that second post, which my buddy Austin Kleon sent me, is essential.

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I am blessed to have spent a career working in places that feature expanses of grass and many trees, but today, as I made my way to the office while dodging — or detouring around — earthmovers, road graders, bulldozers, and jackhammers, I was not feeling as grateful as usual. (And as I type these words some kind of drill has just started up somewhere in my building.)

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I wrote about why it may not matter that much if we’re in a period of cultural stagnation, and what matters instead.