Lucas Rizoli > Recent Status Updates

Uh, so far there’ve been many overlapping names and times and things for which I am bereft of much context.

I enjoy the occasional political or biographical insight or anecdote, but there's too much armchair nonsense from 50 years ago between them.

Sometimes the writing is too much; I get it, man, McLuhan was in the air at the time.

Reading this immediate after Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma sure seems to, uh, complicate what sympathy for David I may have—as well as interpretations of the novel broadly

Am learning quite a lot, stitching together the scattered bits of what I know about the history and practices of Islam—but since I'm coming at it from a very impoverished starting point, I don't know enough to be critical about Ansary's claims. Any thoughts or coordinating sources you'd recommend?

Fell off the horse for a few weeks

"Allora."

Re-listening because September sucks