Isn't this a delightful cover of Malajube?

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In the midst of enduring sickness, life does provide one saving grace.

And its name is Taylor Fladgate 20.

It was a city record for heat today. I went down to the river and walked through the woods by its shore. A raccoon and a groundhog were fighting in the undergrowth. I ran at them and told them to stop, and the groundhog scurried down a hole. The raccoon climbed up a tree and stared intently down at me making irritated huffing noises. What the ( Read more... )

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Oh Jack,

It's a no-brainer. Nancy, Jack, Nancy.

Reminder to those interested -- we are still looking for interest to start a reading group on Hegel's Phenomenology. We currently have three volunteers to lead bi-weekly sessions, and will attempt to run the project like that, though it would be ideal to have some more involvement. Please see the latest posts in guided_readings for info.

I've usurped guided_readings for the proposed Hegel reading group and made a post there with an initial proposal. Or at least will have usurped it and have made a post when the mods there let it out of the moderation queue and give me maintainer status.

"I reckon that if you whipped a dog five or six times to the sound of a violin, it would begin to howl and run away as soon as it heard that music again." Descartes, 1630!