Books: A Few Seconds of Panic, Word Freak, Wild and Outside. Talk: @Slate's Hang Up and Listen. Ex: @WSJ @NPR @AP. Writing: Book on @MerriamWebster.
Apr 18, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Day 1 of the Quarantined High School Championship Online (QuaHSCO) in the books and it featured one of the craziest sequences I've ever seen in Scrabble. And I've seen a lot of Scrabble. And it involved my daughter.
Chloe is facing the No. 2 seed, an amazing player, her good friend and most of all a lovely kid named Jem. He's just played EXPLORE using both blanks and is ahead by 160 points with not many tiles left in the virtual bag.
Jan 23, 2019 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
My 12th-grade English teacher blacklisted actors, directors, producers, singers, writers, and journalists during the McCarthy era. (Thread)
Vincent Hartnett studied Bolshevism at Notre Dame and was a naval intelligence officer in World War II. In the late 1940s, while working for a radio and TV producer, he claimed he saw Communist efforts to “colonize” the New York entertainment industry.