White-person day of atonement.

I am less able to dig painting or visual arts than pretty much anyone else I know, but it occurs to me that I tend to *really* like novels about painters for this reason.

Gotta go to the office today; the humanities aren't gonna ruin themselves after all.

Ha ha ha! Destroyed an iconic brand in record time.

Made some music with my eldest son today. It is such a miracle to me to play and sing with either child.

Finally doing this Savannah thing

Looking forward to the Front Porch Improv shows this weekend.

I root against any NY team, but I do always root for OG Anunoby

when it's OG Anunoby time

Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten; and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not found. Oh and: the left has not ruined the humanities. Water is wet ffs.

I am so used to being surrounded by people who think the things I'm interested in are worthless that I have developed a shell. Got a little glimpse of what it would be like not to need that at a mini-conference on imitation and classical reception Friday at UChicago.

introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Bo Diddley David Bowie Ray Charles Emmylou Harris X Stevie Wonder The Pixies Ella Fitzgerald The Klezmer Conservatory Band Ravi Shankar

Today is the official publication day for the Arden 4 edition of Titus Andronicus that I edited with Ayanna Thompson. I'm told that the book has already been reprinted because it was set as the required text for an English lit exam in France!

So, canvas is back because ransom was paid to a gang that (a) promises not to do it again and (b) often breaks promises?

Oh, hi

I’m v tired of being professionally smart in a world that needs more simple morality.

Second edition in the Arden 4 has arrived! Titus Andronicus, expertly edited by @curtisperry.bsky.social and Ayanna Thompson! This will be a groundbreaking edition, I predict, just as Bate’s for Arden3 was. Looks great next to @authorajhartley.bsky.social‘s superb JC for @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

May the warmongering predatory bully chuds rot in hell

You could write a history of the American Right as a long-term synthesis of Jim Crow And the Prosperity Gospel

Two hours of Elon's dad interviewed by South African podcaster MacG. Grateful to @niedermeyer.io for the public service of this summary thread. Apartheid (and its predecessor ideologies steeped in eugenics) is key to understanding the present US and world situation, and 21st-century fascism.

Breaking news: this "undecided potato" was actually the chair of Idaho for Trump 2020