Welcome to Tabs Open! This week: the wizardry of baseball physics; the linguistic pathway between Chinese essays, the Talmud, and American poetry; and more. 1. The weather in Seattle this past week has been perfect—sunny, cloudless, the kind of long lazy weather that makes you wonder how you were ever cold or gray inside or outside before. It’s on days like these where I feel compelled to cue up songs that have brought summers with them in years past. It’s been 10 of them since I first heard Bonnie Raitt and John Prine’s brilliant, haunting duet “Angel From Montgomery,” a song that I played on repeat as the weather turned hot my freshman year of college and I began once more to get Big Ideas about the world. Anyway here it is, may it herald summer for you as well, even you all back home in Syracuse where it’s been 45 and gross for days:
Tabs Open #8: The Glaciers Slid Down the Valleys
Tabs Open #8: The Glaciers Slid Down the…
Tabs Open #8: The Glaciers Slid Down the Valleys
Welcome to Tabs Open! This week: the wizardry of baseball physics; the linguistic pathway between Chinese essays, the Talmud, and American poetry; and more. 1. The weather in Seattle this past week has been perfect—sunny, cloudless, the kind of long lazy weather that makes you wonder how you were ever cold or gray inside or outside before. It’s on days like these where I feel compelled to cue up songs that have brought summers with them in years past. It’s been 10 of them since I first heard Bonnie Raitt and John Prine’s brilliant, haunting duet “Angel From Montgomery,” a song that I played on repeat as the weather turned hot my freshman year of college and I began once more to get Big Ideas about the world. Anyway here it is, may it herald summer for you as well, even you all back home in Syracuse where it’s been 45 and gross for days: