The Weekly Eudemon Podcast
The Weekly EudemonMontaigne: Godfather of 4Chan?](https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2022/7/24/montaigne-godfather-of-4chan?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 24, 2022 > tourist season [pic.twitter.com/ioEk8qPuri](https://t.co/ioEk8qPuri?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) > > — animals going goblin mode (@mischiefanimals) [July 24, 2022](https://twitter.com/mischiefanimals/status/1551180854097072128?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ## "I liked small talk, so I was a wretched sinner." That, anyway, is how I interpreted an early chunk of St. Theresa Avila's *Autobiography*. I've long had an aversion to small talk, unless I'm drinking. Older people were constantly interrupting me with small talk. I remember waiting for my wheels to get rotated, the dialogues of Plato in my hand (pretentiousness, I've never lacked) and a guy came into the repair waiting room, grabbed a cup of coffee, and said, "If it's free, might as well take some." It was immediately understood that I was supposed to chit chat for the next 20 minutes. As a young father with zero free time, it was a major annoyance. I've mellowed over the years. I no longer consider small talk the province of borderline morons who want to impose their lack of inner direction on the innocent. I sometimes do, sure, and I still have a long introverted streak that makes small talk as welcomed as Gavin McGinnes in Portland, but I've also come to respect small talk as a type of art, which is also the conclusion Joseph Epstein reaches in [this 2004 *Forbes* essay](https://www.forbes.com/fyi/2004/0329/043%5Fprint.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), which, like many Epstein essays, has aged well. [Epstein on Small TalkSmall talk is best thought of as an art, a minor but nonetheless real one.The Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/epstein-on-small-talk/) This is an essay I wrote for Gilbert Magazine years ago, revised recently, mostly to make it a better "online" piece: [Small Talk: How to Cultivate the True Disposition of the ArtistPractice being an artist by being a good conversationalistThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/how-to-cultivate-the-true-disposition-of-the-artist/) --- ### July 23, 2022 ## Another Micro-Review Essay [The End of Christendom, by Malcolm MuggeridgeThat guy trying to eat your brains? He didn’t survive the zombie attack.The Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-end-of-christendom-by-malcolm-muggeridge/) --- ### July 22, 2022 ## Illegal Vodka Pipelines I guess they're a thing in former USSR territories. I'm not clear what constitutes "illegal vodka," but I think it's safe to assume it's merely the same thing that brought us the proto-NASCAR movement of moonshine running: excessive taxation. [A 300m Vodka Pipeline Was Just Discovered in UkraineThe makeshift pipeline was being used to transport bootleg alcohol out of Ukraine into neighbouring Moldova.VICEDipo Faloyin](https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ab3p/ukraine-vodka-pipeline?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 21, 2022 ## What is a Paragraph? That question has long dogged me. When I first started writing for publication in the late 1990s, an editor told me that, traditionally, each paragraph is a separate mini-essay, but that readers' attention spans were getting so short, that it was no longer possible to publish an article with such blocks of no white space: no one would read it. He then tried to explain to me how the paragraph should work now, and I remember thinking his explanation was incoherent (and this was probably the best editor I ever worked with). Over the years, the paragraph got shorter and shorter, until certain publications (*the Sun* comes to mind) reduced every paragraph to a single sentence. When I first started writing at Medium.com, the guidelines warned me that, if my paragraphs were more than, say, 50 words, the Medium curators would reject it. So, that's where I am today: nowhere. Each paragraph should be more than a sentence and less than 50 words. It doesn't tell me much, at least not that I can logically explain. Anyway, the history of the paragraph is explored in this essay, if you're interested in grammatical archeology. [Past Lives of the ParagraphFrom The Hedgehog ReviewThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/past-lives-of-the-paragraph/) [Full essay here](https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/past-lives-of-the-paragraph?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 19, 2022 ## About Existence Strikes Back A friend and occasional TDE reader sat down with me to ask about the "Existence Strikes Back" tag. After I explained the big picture to him, he suggested that I "lay it all out" in a succinct post. The essays under that tag are interesting, he said, but they'd be better if readers had the full picture. After thinking about it, I concluded that he's right, so: [What is “Existence Strikes Back”?“Existence Strikes Back” is the working title of a body of writing and ideas that I’ve been working on for 30 yearsThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/what-is-existence-strikes-back/) --- ### July 18, 2022 ## 71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts Something different for this week's Monday column. [71 Thoughts to Improve Your ThoughtsI’m a weak man. Actually, “inconstant” is a better adjective. Here’s the problem: I read an insightful passage, decide that I’ll apply it to my life, and then forget about it. Fortunately, I realized this early in life. Specifically, back in the late 1980s when I wasThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/71-thoughts-to-improve-your-thoughts/) You can listen to it here: [71 Thoughts for Improving Your Thoughts — The Weekly EudemonThe Weekly Eudemon Podcast
The Weekly Eudemon71 Thoughts for Improving Your Thoughts](https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2022/7/10/71-thoughts-for-improving-your-thoughts?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 17, 2022 ## The Soviets Even Used Porcelain to Propel Their Propaganda When your culture, society, and economics are built on false premises, the propaganda must relentlessly stomp out truth. If you see a parallel with today's cancel culture, you wouldn't be wrong. [How Teapots Spread Soviet PropagandaFrom the BBCThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/how-teapots-spread-soviet-propaganda/) [Full article here](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220629-how-teapots-were-used-to-spread-russian-propaganda?ocid=global%5Fculture%5Frss&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). --- ### July 16, 2022 ## A Micro-Review/Essay [The Restoration of Christian Culture, by John SeniorA Micro-Review/EssayThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-restoration-of-christian-culture-by-john-senior/) --- ### July 15, 2022 ## BYCU [Sundry Drinking Items: Alpena, Michigan; Bar Fees; Can Shortage; Orange WineRandom drinking items for your weekend recreational consumptionThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/sundry-drinking-items-alpena-michigan-bar-fees-can-shortage/) --- ### July 14, 2022 ## Sleeping at the British Open One of my closest friends slept at the St. Andrews Golf Course. Literally. He played golf, drank at pubs until it got late, and hadn't made overnight arrangements, so he crawled into one of the bunkers and slept there. Many years ago, I was scheduled to go on a boat ride with a different friend, who is an avid golfer and pretty introverted. I said, "Oh, my friend Mike is coming, too." My introverted friend, who didn't know Mike and is never in the market for new friends, frowned and said, "Okay. Is he cool?" I said, "He slept in a sand trap at St. Andrews after a night of drinking." The day went well. Such is the allure of the great golf courses among golf fans. Well, heck, even among non-golf fans like me. I used to golf but the arrival of seven children and impatience required me to bunker it, but I respect it and have always enjoyed the four majors. This is a good piece about St. Andrews. The gist: The technology of the game has left the course behind. It's far too easy these days . . . unless the weather sucks, which is the norm (and the charm). [The Old Course Stands the Test of TimeFrom the Associated PressThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-old-course-stands-the-test-of-time/) --- ### July 13, 2022 ## Bookstore Recidīvus Great news for bookstores: Small booksellers [not only survived](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/books/bookstores-reopening-coronavirus.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) the pandemic, but many are thriving. Especially good news: The bookstores aren't owned by white people. In fact, many thrive on a niche, like "girls and nonbinary people." Silly me, I thought "girl" was the disfavored half of the boy-girl binary, but that's probably my white privilege ignorance of deconstructionism. I'd note, however, that "blacks" are mentioned seven times in the article; "whites" only once (not counting a reference to "nonwhites"). Maybe that racial binary has been reversed, which would be something no one would applaud, especially those who are funded to reverse it. Anyway, it's good to see stories like these, no matter how ideologically crammed. [Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are BoomingFrom the New York TimesThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/some-surprising-good-news-bookstores-are-booming-and-becoming-more-diverse/) [Full article here](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/books/bookstores-diversity-pandemic.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 12, 2022 ## Don't Mess with Michoacan I was the President of our local Chamber of Commerce shortly after the Clinton Administration succumbed to pressure from labor unions and greatly circumscribed the work-visa program. Our town, which has traditionally been as diverse as the Badlands of South Dakota, suddenly had a ton of Mexicans. People were concerned. I went and talked with our town's police chief about crime concerns. He said (paraphrase): "Public urination, driving without a license. Things like that are greatly on the increase. Serious crime? Virtually nothing, far below the serious crime rate among whites. These aren't Tijuana Mexicans." That's how I started learning about these Mexicans in our midst. Shortly after my discussion with the police chief, one of these newcomers opened a meat market and hired me as his attorney. "Carniceria Michoacan." I asked, "Why Michoacan?" He said, "That's where I'm from. That's where we're all from." And that's how I started learning about that far-off Mexican state that sent us a slew of these hard-working and kindly Mexicans who, far from being a problem for our community (yes, the language barrier is difficult), became a blessing. Over the years, I've come to sense that these people have strange mettle in their blood. Kindly, respectful, occasionally almost deferential to the local whites, but it's clear: don't trifle with them or show disrespect. They'll drink you under the table, work you under the table, and pray you under the table. A few years ago, Thaddeus Russell told listeners that Michoacan is one of his favorite places on earth and raved about the people, both now and historically, noting that their indigenous people were the only ones that the Aztecs couldn't conquer. I've heard or seen other admiring references. [And now the BBC has noticed. ](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220710-the-empire-the-aztecs-couldnt-conquer?ocid=global%5Ftravel%5Frss&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) [The empire the Aztecs couldn’t conquerFrom the BBCThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-empire-the-aztecs-couldnt-conquer/) --- ### July 11, 2022 ## Monday Column [Why Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of ModernityIt’s no wonder the poet William Blake wrote of Bacon’s essays, “Good advice for Satan’s Kingdom.”The Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/why-francis-bacon-is-a-founding-father-of-modernity/) ### You can listen to it here [Why Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of Modernity — The Weekly EudemonThe Weekly Eudemon Podcast
The Weekly EudemonWhy Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of Modernity](https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2022/7/10/why-francis-bacon-is-a-founding-father-of-modernity?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 10, 2022 ## Something Old is Emerging in Austin There's a new university in Texas. It raised $100 million in a heartbeat. Its premise: America's colleges and universities have surrendered their reason for existence (the pursuit of truth), so new colleges and universities need to emerge. You see the same movement afoot in the new Great Books schools, like [Wyoming Catholic College](https://wyomingcatholic.edu/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) and [New College Franklin](https://www.newcollegefranklin.edu/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). You see the same movement bolster stalwart institutions like Hillsdale College with a billion-dollar endowment (which was just $500 million a few years ago). But [this school in Texas](https://www.uaustin.org/what-makes-us-different?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) is different. On its board and teaching positions: [Bari Weiss](https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-new-founders-america-needs?utm%5Fsource=substack&utm%5Fmedium=email), Deirdre McCloskey, Kathleen Stock, Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Search their names. You'll see they're hardly the personnel you'd expect to see in a Great Books college (they are, respectively, a lesbian, a transgendered, a lesbian, a new atheist, and a feminist atheist). But they're doggedly committed to finding truth (doggedly committed to dogma, I suppose their critics would jingle it). Call it the "third way" (intellectual movements are always looking for a "third way"): Neither Judeo-Christian nor Postmodern Leftism. Call it a "new way," though the search for truth is older than Moses. Or call "liberalism." It is a resurrection of classical liberalism in the vein of David Hume, Adam Smith, and Herbert Spencer. Or call it "The Old Right," which is just another name for "classical liberalism extended into the 20th century." In this vein: Albert Jay Nock, Henry Hazlitt, and Murray Rothbard. Or just call it "good" and "beautiful." That's what I'm doing. If it's seeking truth, it's seeking goodness and beauty. Those three sisters walk in a tight bond that can't be broken, no matter how hard our educational systems try. Welcome, University of Austin. [UATX’s Forbidden Courses ProgramSomething new is stirring in AustinThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/uatxs-forbidden-courses-program-a-summary/) --- ### July 9, 2022 ## Micro-Review The post below reminded me that I've been meaning to run this micro-review/essay: [Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives, by Joseph EpsteinEvelyn Waugh? Hardly St. Max, but Epstein admires his razor wit and tries to understand the amalgam of Catholicism and wretchedness that was WaughThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/partial-payments-essays-on-writers-and-their-lives-by-joseph-epstein/) --- ### One of the Best Micro-Biographies I've Seen I've always enjoyed biographies. I just wish I read more of them all my life. They're an entertaining way to get steeped in historical details, as well as the area that made the subject famous. Terry Teachout's *The Skeptic: A Life of Mencken* paints a picture of the United States in the 1920s, the life of a writer, and the mind of a guy who just couldn't fathom religion. Bill Kauffman's *Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Marin* is a joyous romp through post-independence America and heterodox vibrant political philosophies that we've forgotten about today. Albert Jay Nock's autobiographical *Memoirs of a Superfluous Man* is . . . Well, I'm not sure, such is its idiosyncrasy, but I loved it and read it twice. And if you shorten the biographies, packing, say, twenty mini-biographies into one book? Then I'm in nerd heaven. Highly recommended in this regard: Joseph Epstein's *Partial Payments*, Joseph Pearce's *Literary Converts*, and Paul Johnson's *Intellectuals*. And then once in awhile, you find a micro-biography, under 1,500 words, that is so packed with interesting (sometimes wild) facts and anecdotes that you want to recommend it to anyone with a shred of curiosity. Such is this great essay at *UnHerd* by Terry Eagleton about Ludwig Wittgenstein: Jewish, homosexual, a great philosopher who didn't much care for philosophy, a man who preferred cowboy movies and detective stories and who gave away his ample inheritance so he could embrace poverty. [Ludwig Wittgenstein’s war on philosophyWittgenstein was an intriguing combination of monk, mystic and mechanic. . . . He preferred cowboy movies and detective storiesThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/ludwig-wittgenstein-a-biopic/) [Full essay here](https://unherd.com/2022/05/ludwig-wittgensteins-war-on-philosophy/?=refinnar&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 8, 2022 ### Excellent review/essay at The Lamp about beer. It's lengthy, but this might be the best paragraph out of it: > I still shudder at the recollection of a Washington-area brand during the late 1950s, Old German, brewed in Cumberland, Maryland, which sold at the incredibly low rate of eight bottles for a dollar. Unfortunately, it tasted as cheap as its price and, if you were forgetful enough to leave a not-quite-empty bottle of the stuff in a dark corner of the garage, attic, or basement recreation room, you sometimes found things growing out of it a few days later. Back in college, I was the king of cheap beer. My bachelor godfather was cleaning out his basement while I was visiting him one day. The basement was, literally, piled to the ceiling with junk he'd accumulated. He told me he was throwing away everything and I could have whatever I wanted. I saw an old case of Buckhorn beer. "Even this?" I asked. He said yup and I'd probably find more cases if I dug enough. I spent a few hours crawling and digging, every 20 minutes or so emerging with a case of some nasty stuff: Red White and Blue, Falstaff, Blatz. I even rescued a case of "Beer," that generic grey-black labeled brand. When I returned to college with about ten cases packed in my car, I was a hero. [Bottled and UnsalivatedFrom The LampThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/bottled-and-unsalivated/) [Full review/essay here](https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-10/arts-and-letters/bottled-and-unsalivated/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 7, 2022 ### Searching for Mr. Good Tom Bombadil Robert Foster says he may have been a maia (one of the lesser gods, along the lines of Gandalf's pre-existence in the Undying Lands) "gone native." *The Complete Guide to Middle Earth*. The author of *In the House of Tom Bombadil* thinks it might not be so simple. [In the House of Tom BombadilFrom Front Porch RepublicThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/in-the-house-of-tom-bombadil/) [Full review here](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/07/who-is-tom-bombadil-in-search-of-the-one-answer-to-rule-them-all/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) ### Related satire [Alleged Sex Slaveholder Tom Bombadil in CustodyGoldberry in protective custodyThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/54601/) --- ### Summoning Socrates and the Delphic Oracle "In a world flooded with such new devices, it is not at all surprising to find that many people now are not even aware of any aspiration to self-knowledge beyond what may be revealed by the AppleWatch or the Fitbit." Hey, that's not me. I use a Garmin. [How Fitbit has stolen your soulFrom UnHerdThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/how-fitbit-has-stolen-your-soul/) [Full essay here](https://unherd.com/2022/06/your-fitbit-has-stolen-your-soul/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 6, 2022 ### Gielgud Does GKC From the autobiography of British actor John Gielgud: "I had already made some amateur appearances. Val, Eleanor and I had got up a play with some friends with whom we were staying for the summer holidays. The performance was given in a charming studio belonging to G. K. Chesterton, and the great man himself came to see it, and delighted us all by laughing uproariously." \[*Early Stages*, London: Hodder, 1939, 28\] --- ### Tree Poaching It doesn't sound very sporting, unless perhaps they're young ents that can move fast (for ents). [The strange underground economy of tree poachingFrom NPRThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-strange-underground-economy-of-tree-poaching/) [Full article here](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/06/28/1107449055/the-strange-underground-economy-of-tree-poaching?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). --- ### July 5, 2022 ## Elvis I figure, if female aliens didn't invade earth to throw their space undergarb at Elvis, then there are no female space aliens, and if there are no female space aliens, then there are probably no male aliens (though most depictions imply that aliens are sexless . . . kinda like a woke convention in Portland). My theory was corroborated by the new Elvis movie, which is the best film since *Return of the King*. [Elvis: An Effusive Mini-ReviewWow. I loved this movie.The Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/elvis-an-effusive-mini-review/) --- ### Aliens The young Michael Snellen speculates about the spate of UFO sightings these past few years. There's a neat sketch at the end, supposedly by Aleister Crowley. I didn't know the freak was into alien theories, but based on the little I know about him, nothing was too fantastical for his "thought". [Are Alien Sightings Just Demonic Possessions?In 1959, the famous psychologist Carl Jung wrote Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky. Instead of trying to account for UFOs as a literal reality, he opted to see them instead as a psychic aspect, a fantasy of the unconscious.The Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/are-alien-sightings-just-demonic-possessions/) --- ### July 4, 2022 Happy Fourth. Timely piece from VoegelinView: [Our Man in Paris: Why Tocqueville Still MattersFrom VoegelinViewThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/our-man-in-paris-why-tocqueville-still-matters/) --- ### Monday Column [Top Ten Mystics of the 14th CenturyThey were the rock stars of late medieval EuropeThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/top-ten-mystics-of-the-14th-century/) ### You can listen to it here [Podcast - The Weekly EudemonThe Weekly Eudemon Podcast
The Weekly EudemonTop Ten Mystics of the 14th Century](https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### July 3, 2022 ### Efficiently Enjoying the Eudemon Experience [Suggestion: Bookmark the Scrolling Blog💡To make your visits to TDE as efficient as possible, the Scrolling Blog will mention every new article/essay. You might want to start there every time you visit. I hope everyone is enjoying the revamped TDE. I’ve come to the conclusion that I like beautiful things (yeah, IThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-scrolling-blog-is-what-you-should-bookmark/) --- ### Irving Fabricated the Flat-Earth Myth [Here's a tribute to Washington Irving](https://www.city-journal.org/washington-irving-american-trailblazer?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It doesn't mention that Irving fabricated the notion that the Catholic Church taught that the world was flat in order to spice up a story (and that it also discredited Catholicism . . . a bonus for the anti-Catholic Irving). > The myth of Columbus’ supposed flat earth theory is tempting: It casts the explorer’s intrepid journey in an even more daring light. Problem is, it’s completely untrue. The legend doesn’t even date from Columbus’ own lifetime. Rather, it was invented in 1828, when Washington Irving published *The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus*. [History Channel](https://www.history.com/news/christopher-columbus-never-set-out-to-prove-the-earth-was-round?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). [A Tribute to Washington IrvingFrom City JournalThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/untitled-2/) --- ### July 2, 2022 ### Steyn on Toxic Masculinity I'm not sure why thinks American sports are unwatchable, but otherwise, it's a good 25-second screed: --- ### "Harvard-must-fall" Quietly hilarious, the above is the URL slug of this little piece by Niall Ferguson's wife and Joe Rogan guest, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. [Our Universities Need a RevolutionFrom UnHerdThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/our-universities-need-a-revolution/) [Full essay here](https://unherd.com/2022/07/harvard-must-fall/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It includes a reference to W.F. Buckley, whose nephew is a monk in France. The nephew helps support the monastery with his paintings. I bought one years ago. I really like it, but I don't know much about art and I don't know if I like it because of the painting or because I wanted to like a painting by a monk who is also WFB's nephew. The monk, incidentally, is, I'm pretty sure, Brent Bozell's son. Bozell's story itself is really interesting. I might make him a focus of an upcoming micro-review/essay of Patrick Allit's *Catholic Intellectuals & Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985*, a book that is far more riveting than its staid title would suggest. Anyway, here's a pic of that painting I bought:  ### Properly Shaken Another micro-review/essay. I believe this is the twelfth in a series of a projected 100\. [The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O’ConnorA Micro-Review/EssayThe Daily EudemonTDE](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-violent-bear-it-away-by-flannery-oconnor/) --- ### July 1, 2022 ### A Delightful Thread > If you’ve spent time in rural sub Saharan Africa one thing that might shock you is the popularity of American country music to the point where you can’t go to a bar, party, or wedding without avoiding it 🧵 [pic.twitter.com/gpYC7fdq78](https://t.co/gpYC7fdq78?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) > > — The Zimbabwean (@RisenChow) [June 30, 2022](https://twitter.com/RisenChow/status/1542564697353895941?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) ### Drink like a writer. Write like a drinker This is a neat list: Seven literary pubs. The prose is a bit sophomoric ("The Eagle and Child *are* one of the world’s most storied literary hubs" . . . "are" . . . yikes? Did the writer let the auto-correct run wild? Did auto-write AI create this piece?) and it's annoying that the writer identifies the countries ("New York City, U.S."). But the list itself is good and the snippets of information decent. The 7: The Eagle and Child Pub, Oxford (Tolkien, Lewis, et al) White Horse Tavern, NYC (Kerouac) George Inn, London (Shakespeare and Dickens . . . not at the same time, my chronologically-beleaguered readers) Harry's New York Bar, Paris (Lost Generation) The Carousel Bar, New Orleans (Tennessee Williams, Faulkner) Antico Caffè Greco, Rome (Mary Shelley, Hans Christian Andersen, Ivan Turgenev, Byron, and Keats) Literary Cafe, St. Petersburg (Dostoyevsky and Pushkin) [7 Literary Pubs Where You Can Drink Like Your Favorite AuthorsFrom Matador NetworkThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/7-literary-pubs-where-you-can-drink-like-your-favorite-authors/) [Full essay here](https://matadornetwork.com/read/7-literary-pubs-to-visit/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### Crunching crabs into whiskey I like neither crabs nor whiskey, so it's fitting they're coming together. [From under to on the rocks: Invasive crabs become whiskeyFrom the AP PressThe Daily EudemonMelvin Geraldo](https://thedailyeudemon.com/from-under-to-on-the-rocks-invasive-crabs-become-whiskey/) [Full article here](https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-climate-and-environment-9a3b69102c84d5e1a809617b3843c48e?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) --- ### [June 2002 Scrolling Blog Entries](https://thedailyeudemon.com/scrolling-blog-june-2022/)