No Toast Points today, but here are two small shimmering jewels of delight you might have missed before we close up shop before Christmas (I mean, we’re still posting next week, but will you even notice? WILL YOU?):
1. Is there a universe parallel to our own that’s running backwards in time and that also I don’t understand how that works? Yes, definitely.
2. If Jaya and Matt weren’t already married, I would make them get married, for my own selfish amusement.
3. I will always, always care about it when someone finds super-old music and tries to recreate what it sounds like using modern instruments. This is one step closer to that Epic of Gilgamesh musical I have been longing for.
I will notice! I have to work 2.5 days next week so I will be loitering about here looking for interesting things to comment on!
I’m only working Monday and Tuesday, but yep. I’ll be here, too!
Say the word and we’ll get divorced just so you can force us to get married again
I wrote some of my favorite grad school papers on Ancient Near Eastern art, and I am FEELING that Babylonian music. Think I’ll have play it the next time I want to tap into my inner Ishtar and seduce a gentleman caller.
I WILL NOTICE because i am working every day except christmas day. adulthood sucks sometimes.
Also this is the link to that comic http://www.listen-tome.com/modern-romance/
“the pants I keep under my pants”
If you are on Twitter it’s totally worth following Jaya and Matt because you get advance notice of the brilliance.
“If you look at a simple model with a swarm of bees in the middle [the Big Bang] but breaking up in either direction, then you would say there are two arrows of time, pointing in opposite directions from the swarm of bees,”
The Nobel Committee announced today that the Prize in Time Cube Physics for 2015 has been awarded to the authors of the Honeycomb Hideout Theory.
i will notice! i’ll be in the office on monday and tuesday, at the least.
also i mean, of course i read the toast at home. but i need it at the office.
also i mean, of course i read the toast at home. but i need it at the office.
Mallory, I had an idea if you want to think about it as a tidbit. While falling asleep, I thought, “The Toast and The Butter should add The Jam, and it will be about music and Jia Tolentino should run it.”
Moral of the story: I think about your website when I’m falling asleep, congrats.
I HAVE HAD THIS EXACT THOUGHT i feel less clever but more validated!
I’ll be with family all next week. I love my family but sometimes I need a break. Good to know the Toast will be here to amuse me.
I’m in Russia and it’s not Christmas here which means I have no days off, so I will definitely notice!
Lots of us will notice. Christmas week is the quietest week of the year for me. I’ll be right here at home, reading every post as usual, while my partner watches extreme sports on the computer.
Mallory, I will always notice.
Has anyone done “Douchebag Bridges of Madison County” yet? That movie is playing on some oldies TV channel and it’s as annoying to me today as it was the first time I saw it.
Has anyone done "Douchebag Bridges of Madison County" yet? That movie is playing on some oldies TV channel and it's as annoying to me today as it was the first time I saw it.
Um, if there’s ever a Kickstarter for your Gilgamesh musical, I would like to contribute