Joel Calahan

Very proud to announce the publication of my chapbook The Bees, out now from Verge Books. It’s a translation of Book IV of Vergil’s Georgics, full of practical tips for beekeepers, and lovely lyric depictions of hive life. Purchase, repost, spread the word! www.vergebooks.com#/joel-calaha...

lmao a good argument to be made that we wouldn’t have what most consider “western culture” without the stewardship of Arabic scholars through the Middle Ages

Evergreen advice 👇🏻

Issue 23 of my newsletter, This, Not That, is out, and it's got three Halloween-themed recommendations: A horror short (which is a candy commercial, but is really good despite), a long short story about a weird dollhouse; and the precursor to the songs "Werewolf Watusi" and "Blood Bank Blues."

Casanova on his deathbed:

What, no ‘bless you’s for Giacomo?

My son has a friend at college whose grandmother dated Philip Glass, I feel like this is a winning icebreaker factoid

Matchboxes featuring cats by Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa.

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

The first step in safety is knowledge

Turaaaang?

When my midwestern grandmother died, I rummaged around her house full of bric-a-brac and junk, completely stuck on what to take as a memento. I ended up with this:

the new Olivia Tremor Control album out today is a worthy final statement from one the greatest bands of the 90s — there are moments of cool minimal stuff and tape loop weirdness but mostly its just great catchy psychedelic pop rock songs oliviatremorcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/the-sa...

"Four weeks later, Joseph K was at the end of his rope. His various attempts to unsubscribe from his free trial were countless yet futile." buff.ly/gYUPjF0

Communication tech: I remember my dad being gone for work for like five months and we got to talk to him only occasionally, and once we missed a call and had to wait another week. Wild to think of now.

My “not ready for pedobaptism” shirt is raising a lot more questions than can possibly be answered by my shirt

Deep in the Mandela Effect subreddit to lurk about the debate if the phrase “bucket list” had existence before the goddamn movie.

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

Another astonishing victory in the ongoing War Against Metaphor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I arrived an hour early after misinterpreting my friend’s vague time proposal for our afternoon coffee date. In other words, I couldn’t see the four-ish for the three.

Guy watching his first NBA game: “Man, Wemby is TALL” Guy who’s spent his entire life watching basketball: “Man, Wemby is TALL”

With the election looming, the GOP is calling in the big guns. Which means having a megachurch freak named Timmy dispatch an army of walleyed 23yo home-school casualties with YouTube diction to opposing candidates' rallies, where they will demand those candidates reject and denounce the WNBA.

Before demonitization I made between 3/4 thousand dollars a year from streaming, now its about 1,200$ annually. When you only make about a thousand dollars a month income, that kind of difference really matters!

It’s no one’s fault for casting him, but seeing Fred Willard turn up in the first act of Salem’s Lot really took me out of the mood lol

The audience at the first production of Ubu Roi:

The most realistic part of Jennifer’s Body is how dudes in bands act

custom home stereo

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found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

My goodness, I’ve never seen a more dominant team keep close games but still look never in doubt. Wild.

Not now.

The Brewers really just keep coming, no lead is safe.

Dave Roberts is clearly a genius now.

Me hearing an earnest student in my class wax poetic about her love of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.