I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Thanks to talitha78 for the holiday card!

Via Naked Capitalism:

Nietzsche… has a description… of the disgust and disdain which consume him at the sight of the common people with their common faces, their common voices, and their common minds. … When he makes us feel that he cannot endure the innumerable faces, the incessant voices, the overpowering omnipresence which belongs to the mob, he will have the sympathy of anybody who has ever been sick on a steamer or tired in a crowded omnibus. Every man has hated mankind when he… has had humanity in his eyes like a blinding fog, humanity in his nostrils like a suffocating smell. But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth. It is an aristocracy of weak nerves.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)

( Adrian Johns, Ashley Mears )

I am in the midst of frustration with article edits and underpreparedness for class (curse you, lost hour!), so I am forcing myself not to read further in the Transformative Works & Cultures special issue on SPN. Still, I already know it’s full of fun stuff, including an essay  on counteragent’s Still Alive in which I have a special interest, given that one of my stories shows up in the vid.  (I even have a draft of the sequel!  It just needs more Sam before I can post it.)

( the rise of print culture, teaching as leadership, the history of money )