“Proforma” does not mean “blank form for you to fill in”, even in the UK, right?
It’s almost impossible to believe now that the 1989 TV movie Roe vs Wade was broadcast on NBC to some acclaim, and (correctly) portrayed the 1972 decision as a heroic triumph for civil liberties.
It is the summer solstice so time for my annual reminiscence of seeing Sun Ra and Don Cherry celebrate the rising sun from Battery Park in Manhattan with @disquiet back in 1989.
Perhaps one day I’ll make it out to Stonehenge with the druids.
I was out of contact for five days, four of which were holiday or weekend, and it still took me over two hours to deal with all the accumulated emails and messages.
The first IRL-exam I’ve given in three years! Good luck to our great @ImperialPhysics students.
I am honestly unsure whether the email “Welcome to the ua-internal-reseacrher [sic] Group” is legit. Do any of my @imperialcollege colleagues know?
My grandmother was born in 1911 in Shepetivka, Ukraine, when it was part of the Russian empire. At a time of pogroms against the Jewish population, she fled to the US after WWI, following her father who had made it to New York before the war.
I only just realised that there are two different von Mises.
Things made a lot more sense when I discovered that statistician Richard was different from his brother, free-market-musketeer Ludwig.
(Perhaps I should have written “I was today years old when…” but I couldn’t quite bring myself to do that.)
It is surprisingly difficult to correctly typeset “rock ’n’ roll” nowadays.
How have I only just found out about The Paranoid Style? Thank you for existing, @paranoiacs.
Taking a place in my heart/brain/ears with @wussymusic and @TheMekons.