E.J. Hutchinson
@ehutchinson1513
Numerologist. Democracy Expert. VP of Grievances. Hesiodic nostalgist. “What would Julius Caesar do?” “Voices. Vibes. Vision.” "Enjoy every sandwich."
“No matter where I am I can't help thinking I'm just a tweet away From where I want to be”
More language cuts. The “Early Middle Ages, but More Pagan and Now with Streaming” plan for social renewal continues apace.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
138 lines down, fewer than 200 to go.
I want to teach Paulinus of Nola's epyllion on John the Baptist in my Ancient Epic course. The only English translation I am aware of is in prose, and I have a general revulsion toward prose versions of poetry. So I'm trying to make my own. I'm doing it in unrhymed fourteeners,
A perfect poem—using words to transcend words—which I’d never read until just now. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
This is very sad news. I've been checking Twitter awaiting her return. The wait will be a bit longer. She was a model of grace, wisdom, and craft.
It appears that Hunter Biden, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert all had the same Language Arts teacher growing up, and he suffered from coprolalia.
Wow, Hunter Biden’s vocabulary is…I was going to say “colorful,” but it’s actually pretty monochrome: Every color starts with “f.”
Just saw that Jon Stewart clip, and I might have to revise giving the "Unfunniest Person Alive?" award to Stephen Colbert. How to decide? Can we have a split decision?
Unfortunately, Michigan’s electorate is not very intelligent and apparently thinks “civil society” and “open cesspool” are synonyms, perhaps because there’s, like, a lot of “s” sounds in both.
Driving to Grand Rapids this month, I was struck how the entire corridor from Chicago up through Holland is an uninterrupted wall of vice billboards. Pot, booze, trial lawyers, fireworks, casinos, erotic shops, show girls. Solid wave of it, for your bored preteens to stare at.
I C Y M I: Yesterday I wrote about ekphrasis in THE SHIELD OF HERAKLES and Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" over at @AdFontesJournal. The Paradox of Ekphrasis adfontesjournal.com/ej-hutchinson/…
You better believe I remember it (though I'm pretty sure I saw it on reruns). Amazing episode.
While Today We Say Goodbye to Our Beloved Malcolm Jamal Warner, We’re Reminded of the Many Amazing Characters He Played in Movies and on TV, in Particular Theo Huxtable. On October 18th 1984 (Season 1 Episode 5), “A Shirt Story,” Theo Wanted to Impress a Girl By Wearing An…
People are celebrating this as some kind of victory, and his answers aren't even very good--a useful heuristic for how unmitigatedly nuts the U.S. has become in the last 15 years or so.
Rahm Emanuel's criticized Ds for "pronoun" talk, but @megynkelly is the first interviewer I've seen drill down on his gender views. Boys + girls are "fundamentally, physically different." No "men claiming they're women" in women's prisons. "Can a man become a woman? No."
You had me at "Yorgos Lanthimos."
Venice Film Festival has unveiled a stacked slate for its 2025 edition, with premieres from Jim Jarmusch, Yorgos Lanthimos, Noah Baumbach, Luca Guadagnino, Benny Safdie, Gus van Sant, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, and many more pitchfork.com/news/new-jim-j…
It must be for reasons like this that someone got me this mug.* *I got myself this mug.
The 10-y.o. had the job this morning of cleaning the bathroom, and she chose @parrygripp's "Cat Flushing a Toilet" as the soundtrack. I'm not crying, it's just dusty in here.
We are not worthy of such bounty.
'A Must Watch Show': Bill Simmons Predicts Jon Stewart Could Quit the Daily Show On-Air Tonight to Protest Colbert Cancellation mediaite.com/media/podcasts…
Working on a theory about Christianity as anti- or reverse Platonism, in which heavenly realities lead us to see the divine in earthly realities.
No one cares.
Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart will appear on ‘THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT’ tonight to show solidarity after Colbert’s show was cancelled. (Source: @latenightercom)