Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. Chesterton 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026‘Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. [Pause.] Aren’t we all?’ Vin Scully 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Feels a bit precious at points, but this is how such comes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-4P...youtube.comFive Minutes Mr. Welles - Vincent D'OnofrioYouTube video by VDO630 100
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026*Die Hard* as an allegory of finance. [Robert Sardello] 001
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gawain essentially makes a New Year's resolution then finds he must keep it. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 YearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#Ai poetandpriest.substack.com/p/a-nice-ai-... 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026poetandpriest.substack.com/p/washing-up...poetandpriest.substack.comWashing up with WendellPorch sitting 100
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48563/...poetryfoundation.orgThey Sit Together on the PorchThey sit together on the porch, the dark Almost fallen, the house behind them dark. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Man gets used to everything, the scoundrel! Raskolnikov www.commentary.org/articles/gar...commentary.orgHow Vasily Grossman Made Darkness VisibleVasily Grossman, the Russian-Jewish writer best known for the 1959 novel titled Life and Fate, has that book’s protagonist, Viktor Shtrum, express the view that the USSR is remarkably similar 010
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Inattention to Oliver's gloss on Weil, unexpected from @theatlantic.com, but decent riff on the #poet herself. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comThe High Priestess of the OrdinaryIn defense of Mary Oliver 010
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026www.newyorker.com/books/under-... #noirnewyorker.comHow Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein EraThis year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026poetandpriest.substack.com/p/something-...poetandpriest.substack.comSomething mything in the tellingThis way comes 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026poetandpriest.substack.com/p/last-gramm...poetandpriest.substack.comLast grammar-theirs house in the forestAbout awesome adjectives 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comHannah Arendt’s American EducationHannah Arendt arrived in New York in 1941 with a formidable German training in philosophy. What she still had to learn, she learned on the Upper West Side. 010
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026'As a single-volume survey of U.S. history, I don’t think Foner’s work has been surpassed. That’s not an affront to Zinn, but a tribute.' It is an affront, and deserved. And this is a reasoned review of the biog, by @patrickiber.bsky.social — i.e., not as the book itself or People's History. 110
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026www.opb.org/article/2026...opb.orgBirds, banter and bebop: Welcome to BIRDFAT, Portland’s salon-inspired pop-upA wine trailblazer and a James Beard Award-nominated chef are teaming up to reimagine a dinner party with a soundtrack inspired by Charlie “Bird” Parker and a menu that’s “all things bird.” 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Nora Ephron — ‘I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.’ ‘[H]ow much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, ‘Don’t you see how oppressed you are?’ poetandpriest.substack.com/p/greta-gerw...poetandpriest.substack.comGreta Gerwig: women wantingGirl, interpreted 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026... racing over fields in pursuit of quarry deranges your wits. seeking rare and costly trifles hobbles you in all your deeds. Tao 12 ... getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Wordsworth 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The #RedSox see every game as a continuation, one big ol' fun long game they'll keep thwacking away at, until it gets dark and mom calls them in for dinner. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...splicetoday.comAre Men Funnier Than Women?Christopher Hitchens once faced severe opprobrium by arguing that they are. || Chris Beck 010
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civ...thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental StoresDecades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Sox Sweep Yanks Sox Sweep Rays Sox Sweep Dodgers #RedSox #OctoberHeadlines redsoxronin.substack.comredsoxronin.substack.comRed Sox Ronin | Paul Hughes | SubstackBoston. Baseball. Click to read Red Sox Ronin, by Paul Hughes, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Nolan is adorned now in reputation and budget, but he has a history of missing the point. unherd.com/2026/07/will...unherd.comWill the god of cinema forgive Nolan? 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Reviews so far balsamically reduce to 'visually stunning meh' [or manipulation]. Don't say you weren't warned. poetandpriest.substack.com/p/a-reason-n... 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5En...youtube.comMalcolm Guite - Old Stories Know Secrets That We Have ForgottenYouTube video by Jonathan Pageau 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026poetandpriest.substack.com/p/may-the-be...poetandpriest.substack.comMay the better man liveOrwell + Huxley 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026#baseball #MLB #RedSox #Orioles redsoxronin.substack.com/p/one-win-st...redsoxronin.substack.comOne win streak ends todaySox and Orioles 100
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026a thing about tomorrow's game: someone's win streak ends. #RedSox 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Great #film. Deep scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGpK... [bar bet: clip [at 4:26] also used for Eyewitness News in L.A.]youtube.comCool Hand Luke (1967) - Road paving jobYouTube video by Movie Clips Classics 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A difference in #RedSox games during the 13-0 run is that sometimes Abreu homers, sometimes Contreras does, and sometimes they both do. #MLB 010
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Lettuce prey www.wsj.com/business/par...wsj.comParasitic Outbreak Puts Big Lettuce in PR Crisis ModeDiners are skipping fresh produce and chefs are revamping wedding menus to steer clear of leafy greens. 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026'Data center development has increased PJM power supply costs by more than 60%, according to Monitoring Analytics, the grid’s independent market monitor. That burden means PJM will need to raise nearly $30B from ratepayers to keep the lights on ... ' www.bisnow.com/national/new...bisnow.comLargest U.S. Grid Operator Sees Power Costs Soar By 60% Due To Data Center DevelopmentPJM's residential and small business customers across 13 states will be on the hook for $6.3B to help purchase the electricity for data centers in the region. 010
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A 'poet and priest' walk in to a bar bet. arcmag.org/bosom-buddies/arcmag.orgBosom Buddies | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraDear Miroslav, I don’t know what faith means anymore. I’m fifty-six years old with a pile of books behind me and an experimental bone marrow transplant ahead of me, and I don’t know what faith means. ... 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=us9r...youtube.comAvett Brothers - We Are Loved, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO, 7/12/26YouTube video by Jack Poynor Mostly Concert Videos (mostly) 110
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I'll be rooting for the fabulist Japanese author 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026You never know who anybody is. … Who in this world is what they seem to be? Who? … Good people, bad people, they generally look like what they are. … If we all do our jobs, we will each be rewarded according to our just desserts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPF-...youtube.comThe Spanish Prisoner - TrailerYouTube video by Adrian Horn 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026You plan a good enough getaway, you could steal Ebbets Field. Ebbets Field is gone. What did I tell you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_T...youtube.comHeist (2001) Official TrailerYouTube video by Morgan Creek 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 01/07/2026#baseball open.substack.com/pub/redsoxro...open.substack.comHe meant ‘boy’ in a good wayWhere we are 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 30/06/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/b...nytimes.comDid Movies Ruin Everything? 000
Paul Hughes @poetandpriest.bsky.social · 20/06/2026poetandpriest.substack.com/p/people-of-...poetandpriest.substack.comPeople of CostcoWhere would Judas dine 000
