Randal Hendrickson

Randal Hendrickson

@hendrickson.bsky.social

Political Theory PhD, history of ideas sort, MS in Library and Info Science. Working out some stuff at "The Vapors.” Would love you to have a look. https://thevapors.substack.com/

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When I went into the shop and asked how much for these jeans, a little man wearing a fisherman’s cap and a repp tie as a belt slapped me and said he could offer me the GAP jeans in the trash if I would take the trash out and never come back. So I get Kelly Clarkson’s rage.

Eric Schmitt: “Did you or did you not blow your family’s savings on some fucking beans, steal a bunch of shit from a giant, and enlist his wife in the betrayal, you absolute dirtbag?” Jack Smith: “That’s Jack and the Beanstalk.” Amy Klobuchar: “You got your Jacks wrong.”

Eric Schmitt: “We got you now, you son of a bitch! My team has evidence of your being courtside at Lakers games for decades.” Jack Smith: “That’s Jack Nicholson.” Amy Klobuchar: “You got your Jacks wrong.”

Braudel’s great “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II” ends with Philip’s death on a September 13th, my bday. I take this to mean that the death of Philip II announces my birth and a New Mediterranean World. I need a boat.

I feel bad for teaching Travis Kelce how to spell “squirrel.” I was just fucking with him. He’s huge. Huge men don’t feel, so you can fuck with them. Anyway, I believe misleading him set him up for Ponzi scheme and marriage victimhood. I am sorry.

A: “Power to the people!” B: “Which power? There isn’t just power. There are three sorts of power in the political world. So which of those to the people? You see, it’s not so simple.” A: shoots B

I bet my marriage would be better if we got engagement photos near a fucking barn while we stared at each other’s faces, or if we held hands, smiled like idiots, and pretended walking is hard as we crossed railroad tracks.

“It strikes me that…” Academics are always being stricken. They have no reflexes. That’s why they only gave me postdocs. Shit doesn’t strike me. I slip it and strike back with force and focus. It strikes me that they don’t like that. NOOOO!!!!!!

The Irish of Drexel Hill have welcomed me as one of their own. I’d say I’m grateful, but I river danced so fucking hard they had to submit to my rule. But like Alexander, I wisely allow them to preserve their local customs.