Scott Stein

Last week of classes. I am done reading Kafka for a while (though I have around 22 student papers to read next week).

The suspected bomb throwers are very local—one's from our high school (where our kid went). Based on what I see on Facebook, some people who live around here are losing their minds. But our town made the national news (GMA) a couple of weeks ago for snowfall totals, so it kind of balances out.

I mean, 5 years for a degree in biomedical engineering, it's an odd thing for me to be bragging about.

I'm all bragging, "he graduated, he's working at CHOP," not that there's anything wrong with working at a salad place

I told a cousin from out of the area that my son was working at CHOP and they thought I meant the salad place.

The first thing I read and talk to my graduate students about is generous reading as a foundational practice for our class. We're going to assume that I chose each thing on our reading list because we can get something out of it, and we're going to read for that first. Then, we can critique.

Real people eschew these words.

Kinetic Lethal Lobster Tail

Satirists and parodists are so tired.

WE WERE ON A SHORT-TERM EXCURSION!

a man is standing in front of a window with the words just when i thought i was out , they pull me back in Alt: a man is standing in front of a window with the words just when i thought i was out , they pull me back in

I'm building a website for a new thing I'm apparently going to be doing.

They had the concept of a plan

WE WERE ON A SHORT-TERM EXCURSION!

This is why Philly greases the lampposts.

4 books, covers shown. Franz Kafka The Drawings; Kafkaesque stories inspired by Kafka edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly; Kafka y Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz; Kafkaesque by Peter Kuper

Tomorrow’s Kafka class will include some show-and-tell as I pass these around.

You make a good point.

Writers, this might not be the best way to handle rejection.

"No boots on the ground!" [Distributes flip-flops]

Trump's big problem with new Supreme Leader is nepotism.

4 books, covers shown. Franz Kafka The Drawings; Kafkaesque stories inspired by Kafka edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly; Kafka y Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz; Kafkaesque by Peter Kuper

Tomorrow’s Kafka class will include some show-and-tell as I pass these around.

Giving all soldiers sneakers and then telling the public, "No boots on the ground."

Needless to say, but I said it anyway.

Some obvious choices. David Lynch, Gabriela Garcia Marquez, Severance…

YES

Last week of Kafka class is here. Tuesday’s topic is writers and artists influenced by Kafka, adaptations of his work or works inspired by him, etc. Any favorites?

"We changed the clocks this weekend and time is a construct."

"I'm still marking you late."

Americans hear a draft is possible and get excited for NFL fantasy football.

Here is a chance to assert my superior taste in a world that otherwise ignores me.

Jerry Yes

Sunset between bare trees and houses. Some kind of red/orange and yellow horizontal angled stripes.

Sunset.