TJD
@tjduffy
New Utahn. Writer/Scholar/Professor/Father. Recent work in Sugared Water, trampset, Black Fork Review, SoFloPoJo, Pleiades, Sepia, Salt Hill, and The Kenyon Review.
This is easily the hardest hike I’ve ever done. Worth it but with a few challenging turns
Just finished this and it’s very good. It reminds me a lot of the shift when Overlord came out. A directness when it’s really needed
The Utah Symphony had an amazing end to its season last night. Excellent program and my first ever Bruckner Symphony
Celebrating the unofficial beginning of summer with new Jorie Graham and attending to a very slow smoking brisket.
When the kid asks for an orange cake with a surprise green inside, that’s what he gets
Needed this book for an article I’m working on. Could find it nowhere except for $7 on eBay. It’s a treasure trove of gems from 1985.
I had an art teacher coworker for years who would have her students make a Calder’s Circus every year out of found materials. Hard to imagine a better lesson
As a society we had to give up a lot of institutional security and climate stability for drastically tastier table grapes
Having sat through sales pitches for these kind of AI services they make teachers just consumers of external products and plug kids into services they don’t fully understand. The idea that textual analysis would be enhanced by talking to an AI plagiarism bot pretending to be Anne Frank is wild
I made funeral potatoes as another culinary tour of Utah. They are delicious and contain so much dairy and cheese, they may accelerate your own funeral