Potent Quotables:

Sayre’s Law: “The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low.”

Attributed to Wallace Stenley Sayre (1905-1972), US political scientist and professor at Columbia University, although similar quotes predate from woodrow wilson and others (see below).
“Untitled” (1969) by Cy Twombly at East Wing of National Gallery of Art

Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

exemplifying his own law, Stigler attributed this idea to sociologist robert k. merton, although earlier citations exist = Epon-and-on-and-onymy!
The Twombly Toilet! When shown the image, my clever wife figured the marks are from people flushing with their foot, often slipping.

“Ahoy, Baltimore…!!”

Captain James Seafood Palace in Fells Point, Baltimore, MD (since 1978)

Is it a guy thing to find favor in houses and businesses that look nautical? Or maybe it’s just a Bligh thing (rim-shot)! Wait, can we even ask anymore if something is a “guy thing”?? In any case, it seems more and more buildings these days look like ships and that ships are now shaped more and more to look like buildings. And surely that’s progress….

“Like You F*cking Mean It!”

Still image captures from Laurie Anderson’s video work “Drum Dance” (1986), on display at Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC in November 2021

When the tone lands right,

and the beat locks tight,

It fans out, out, out

With a storm-rush feeling

So get up, get up

Jump out of dead feet

Loom large and alive and

Then dance, dance, dance

Like you fucking mean it!