Aram Sarkisian
@aramsark
Historian of U.S. working-class religion. Author of "Orthodoxy on the Line" (NYU Press, 2025). He/Him. Music is the best. M Go Blue 🏆
Les Blank didn’t film Werner Herzog stewing, then eating his own shoe just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable.”
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.
I need to ask, did someone at UM tell you this story? Because this is exactly what my dad has done with the Athletic Department over and over for 25+ years. He and others from the original Victors Club gave money in like 1980, UM promised lifetime parking passes in return, and he kept every letter.
Spent some time this afternoon thinking about how the king almost certainly has a Lando Calrissian cape closet.
It's wild how much these people try to spin an alternate and completely baffling interpretation of almost every single example of American popular or political culture, with no self-awareness at all.
They always say #UChicago is built different, but I didn't have "the fat campus squirrels dine on sushi" on my bingo card.
When you read “If we’re going to hold up Bo’s coaching style* this week,” and then you consult the * footnote:
This run on one single side of an LP. The man was ruthlessly unstoppable.
I love the confirmation that Ford too owned a Michigan Bad Call Brick, an essential item we all bought in the 90s.
Dr. Oz is out in LA doing some old-school Turkish Armenophobia, trying to tell you it's about your tax dollars. No, it's about this dangerous clown's longstanding ethnic hatred. Guess what, doc? Your people's genocide didn't work. We're here. And our community in Glendale will continue to thrive.
The only musician of his vintage who still looked immaculate in his 1980s headless guitar period.
Someone in my neighborhood growing up had one of these, though theirs was a high-end custom job. (Or even likely a prototype, pretty much every other house had a Big 3 engineer.)
Archbishop Elpidophoros really said this. I can't even imagine how such a thing is even possible. www.goarch.org/-/archbishop...
"Why are so many young, reactionary, very online men joining the Orthodox Church?" they ask.