sascha benjamin cohen
@saschaben
"'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." Elwood P. Dowd Baker of Bread. Brewer of Beer. Altogether awkward but not entirely unpleasant person.
It is Friday evening. Therefore, I have made myself a martini. Happy Friday, shabbat shalom, have a great weekend.
After seven in ten years, I keep thinking this. Sorry in advance. “Who are you?” “The new Number 2.”
oh, goody. another power outage in SF courtesy of PG&E failing infrastructure. as of 10:25am:
TIL the BBC world service streaming web page has a volume control that goes to 11. I am suddenly just a little bit more cheerful about life.
I'm sure most people are focused on the shitshow in Maine today, but I am gripped by the narrowing of votes here in CA. Steyer now less than 3% down from the #2 spot, with a bit less than 20% of the vote remaining to count, and a *large* portion of those votes coming from more liberal districts.
so one lovely thing about getting older and also having a penchant for finding & drinking wines and spirits from my birth year is I get to sit and sip a 60 year old armagnac as I turn 60 and it is fucking brilliant.
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone
If we must live in the time of monsters, why can't they be these monsters?
"Students seeking majors that teach ‘human’ skills" So, like - and cut me some slack here, I'm spitballing - fields you might call... "the Humanities?" www.sfgate.com/news/article...
I asked Hank Williams 'how lonely does it get?' Hank Williams hasn't answered yet. But I can hear him coughing all night long about a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song -Leonard Cohen #BookWormSat
in the wake of the sad news of Hampshire College closing, this letter from the president of the Yiddish Book Center is reassuring. Glad to know they will not be directly affected by the situation of their neighbor!
“THIS is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself, walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail.” -R. Kipling, Just So Stories #Bookwormsat
One of these is a drawing by Kurt Vonnegut taken from the novel "Breakfast of Champions" which he describes as “a picture of an asshole”. The other is the Claude Code logo. Can YOU tell the difference?
Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones.