Never cheap out on shoes or mattresses. You spend most of your life in one or the other.

well, your ears can confirm!

it was after hearing this for like 20 years that i realized it's a 12-bar blues

corn mazes are a lot like Ikea: stress tests for couples / families, and they circle back on themselves a lot, and maybe you get ice cream at the end

This use of "a little world" is still seen in dictionary definitions of 'microcosm.'

Academia distilled.

Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio

(see you there!)

sticking with St. Martin's Press for UK/Australia.

and a UK launch later in the year!

My music history students are listening to Duke Ellington this week and one of them used the words eerie, haunted, dusky and velvety to describe him. Exactly right.

Merriam-Webster （アメリカで最も伝統があり、今でもしっかり生き残っている英語辞典）の編集主幹 Peter Sokolowski が来年初めに本を出すそうです。楽しみです。

creature from the black lagoon

yah i play it on Bb, so sue me