a neon sign boneyard in Vegas

a neon sign boneyard in Vegas

Me in one image.

this essay title 👹🧌

Del Toro, and Del Toro, and Del Toro Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded frame; And all our Frankensteins have lighted fools The way to boring films.

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

finally some sun this morning in PHX

@stoneclub.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

terrible if wholly predictable environmental news for Alaska that's my son @alexcohen.bsky.social with the spot on quote apnews.com/article/alas...

For a project in progress I’ve had to return to some older writing and this line really hits years later “Apocalypse is a failure of the imagination, a giving up on the future instead of a commitment to the difficult work of composing a better present.”

ICYMI: ASU English alumni @leahenewsom.bsky.social, Daryn Orr and Sharon Enck along with other grads from The College chatted with Dean @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social about how their #ASUHumanities degrees prepared them for careers and beyond. Watch: t.co/vSRoG9LOOV

good morning from Phoenix

For a project in progress I’ve had to return to some older writing and this line really hits years later “Apocalypse is a failure of the imagination, a giving up on the future instead of a commitment to the difficult work of composing a better present.”

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

me after a long day of writing

I left my former institution in 2018, and yet the department of English there still has me listed, looking dapper in a flannel shirt from maybe ten years before that (c. 2008)

we are going to need a bigger boat contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/22/a...

the agitprop continues www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zw...

A Halloween post. 🎃 Thirty years ago I composed the preface to a collaborative project exploring what might be enabled were the monster taken seriously. Might the monster offer an invitation to understanding better the cultures it sanctions, perturbs, roams?

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

It’s Halloween! Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Monster Theory Reader from @uminnpress.bsky.social is a book I find myself returning to repeatedly 🎃😈🧌

stone is slow water

Seeking something older than me my brother gifted me a Roman coin for my birthday

Seeking something older than me my brother gifted me a Roman coin for my birthday

seasonal (postcard from a #monsters conference) 🧌 contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/22/a...

Document Forgery xkcd.com/3160/

canyon

Owen’s Lake, a dry lake with toxic dust. From my flight from San Jose to Phoenix this morning. The lake has an interesting history involving water for LA and dust mitigation via lawsuit. It’s also a stopping place for migratory birds and has color zones due to salt loving microorganisms.

Cleo is always cute but after a haircut she is ESPECIALLY cute

If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!

One thing I have tried that's seemed successful is treating novels more like we're in the nineteenth century getting installments over time. When you think about it, reading a Dickens novel in a week rather than over a year is like binging a full Netflix series.

a sweet and a happy / shana tova

obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word: traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.

the name of a neighborhood near me and every time I run or bike by it I curse myself for the missed opportunity of living there

obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word: traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.

year 5 of #ASUHumanities Week ahead: many of the events are streamed humanities.asu.edu/week

updated my business cards 🦈

In honor of National Dog Day, may we suggest one of these authentic and delightful medieval dog names for your next pet? Tell us which is your favorite in the comments 👇

Everything Douglas Adams says.

Important corrective to how we often talk about higher education and college students in America. Some facts and figures (see NYT article at end for further elucidation): 43 percent of (19 million) undergrads attend community college 75 percent of community college students enrolled part time 1/

Back in 2018 I left the blog I founded and I miss the chance to write in public it used to offer. I have been trying to write more, we'll see what (if anything) this project becomes: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/old-school

Back in 2018 I left the blog I founded and I miss the chance to write in public it used to offer. I have been trying to write more, we'll see what (if anything) this project becomes: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/old-school

it doesn't have to be this way also: universities save very little money by reducing relatively low cost programs like most humanities disciplines think of how many students you could fund for how many years if you forwent one piece of lab equipment futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...

life on Dune

incoming haboob

life on Dune

monsoon storms last night were something else — this was the prelude

now is the time to build the strongest futures for the humanities, not diminish possibilities, to create through collaboration across our disciplines, not retreat into historically fragile configurations that isolate us from the good work of our peers futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/now-is-the...