some guys with their cats (Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Sartre)

Nietzsche would have been such a good poster

online stan culture is recreating Shakespeare’s procreation sonnets from first principles

"racial slurs and even the phrase 'from the river to the sea'" lmaooo

incredible how hims (the company) has at least one product that capitalizes on each and every male insecurity (balding, fat, anxious, limp dick, hidden tumor)

Emily Bronte was fujoing out here just a little

this is such potent "shave your head right now" propaganda

I hadn't paid much attention to Anne Bradstreet in the past, so now I'm feeling pleasantly surprised by how strange her poetry is (this stanza is from "Contemplations")

really enjoyed God's Own Country (2017), which is sort of like a less gay D.H. Lawrence novel

I need to know more about the one American concubine of the notorious, violent, profligate, wealthy, hung (source: himself) warlord Zhang Zongchang

I don't particularly "like" John Milton but I do feel a kind of terror-awe when I think of him, blind, composing Paradise Lost by dictation in the wake of the Stuart Restoration and the failure of all of his worldly ambitions. It's impressive in the way that a big storm is impressive.

the truth is that I started taking photos of everything, which gave me some alternative sense of ownership over the sundry contents of the world. In other words, I followed the tried and tested strategy of substituting an addiction for a lesser addiction.

Per who now?

every news story out of the UK is like "penalties increased for those who daydream without a license" or "parliament passes new masturbation guidelines (no ball-squeezing or nipple stuff)"

just found out from a student that Paul McCartney was at Brown yesterday for a screening of "Man on the Run" and I didn't attend because I didn't even know that it was happening. I feel SICK.

a title card in the 1939 Wuthering Heights announces that the story is set "100 years ago" and I thought to myself "wait, that can't be right" before realizing simultaneously that 1) the film came out 92 years after the book and 2) almost as much time has passed since the film came out

was standing up in front of a classroom teaching Pale Fire when I realized that my students probably perceive me as Kinbote, basically

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

I’m hearing that it’s actually much more chic to visit Provincetown in the off-season, in mid April, for example. Many are saying this.

a really interesting little poem ("The Fairies’ Farewell," Richard Corbett) from the early 17th century

reading outside always seems like such a nice idea until you actually try it

My ads across every platform since turning 30 have been: treatment for balding, mushroom coffee, treatment for balding, fertility-promoting underwear with a pouch for your balls, treatment for balding, nostalgic indie music festival feat. the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, treatment for baldi—

campus right now (first warm spring day!)

ok i give up. what is "taxes are due wednesday"

Stacy, your mother and I are in love

"you know, in Gaza they'd throw you off a roof for being gay" --guy whose entire posting history is about how he really really wants to throw gay people off a roof but in a Christian way

the Oracle of Delphi is weak on crime

my dream is to teach a course just on malls (the arcades project, dawn of the dead, ling ma's severance, mallrats, basically every high school movie, simulacra and simulation, hauntology, "dead mall" tiktok videos, kingdome come, the cave, vaporwave aesthetics, etc.) but idk how to pitch it

No black and white photo filter was used in the making of this image! Really striking example of a grisaille (painting in gray or neutral monochrome) in the Harvard Art museum ("Apotheosis of Louis-Adolphe Thiers," 1878)

anyways, our only way to a better world is to destroy and replace the dem party with a workers party.

we make fun of Thoreau and his poll tax protest as if we're all doing more than him when the reality is that none of us are even doing that much, myself included.

I like the Relatively Woke Pope but am also, for unrelated reasons, at the absolute nadir of my interest in Catholicism and religion in general (I was getting kind of weird about it like 3 years ago -- the latent Trad gene in me is constantly trying to find ways to express itself)

"wikipedia page edited by someone who is trying to insert their whole masters thesis" is a well known phenomenon but another is "wikipedia page that has been functionally vandalized by some well-intended teacher’s 'edit a wiki page' homework assignment"

Happy Easter from Andy Warhol

we really have to start being meaner to "born again Christians"

it's fun making my zoomer students read Baudrillard because once they figure out what he's saying they're just like "well, yeah."

what I truly do love about figure skating is that this blond twink in the sequins and lace is regarded by many fans of the sport as too masculine on the ice

I have played 307 hours of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla this semester

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

No babe I love your iambic trimeter, the longer poetic meters scare me

Ever since I was a small boy I knew I wanted to complicate a dominant narrative in my field

You know, I’m something of a fujoshi myself

love this bit in Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" where he delivers a stunningly homoerotic blazon, goes "I'll stop now, this is inappropriate," and then immediately resumes what he was doing

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

watched Project Hail Mary yesterday and it was so 2011-coded that it was almost interesting for that reason alone

in my mind, Harmony Korine, Ariel Pink and Tao Lin are the same guy

there’s a Burger King in East Providence, RI, that is staffed exclusively by a group of alt-goth twinks whom I suspect are all dating each other and it is the cleanest and most well-run BK franchise in the country

it really is kind of incredible that Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Ling Ma's Severance both came out in 2018 and then gained retroactive prescience and timeliness because of the pandemic two years later

The secret to teaching (much like posting) is to keep things largely impersonal and stick to the topic at hand but then to surprise them every once in a while with a tantalizing suggestion of interiority or personal history

one thing that I do forget about this site is that, unlike twitter, when you block someone you really don't and can't see them, which is overall a good thing except that sometimes a person I hate is getting dragged and I want to see it