Man. Southern California really is chock full of fake body parts. It’s really weird.

Grateful for the comma on Derek Guy’s blog heading. Up till now, I had been pronouncing it like “Die Werkwehr” in my head

Touch the heart to show you’re lichen it. …I’ll see myself out

Yes because my career literally depends on it.

Two of our giants of poetry--Charles Wright & Mark Strand,conferring in,& toasting,the late light. Masters of the line,masters of the image--(& if Merwin & Simic had been there that Oct 9,2014,you'd basically have the corner on the"deep image"in the mid 20th C).We miss Mark, gone 11 years. Read him.

Never once in my career as a teacher will I allow the “Speaking as an [XYZ]” prefatory clause to go unchallenged. It dangles, distracts, and masquerades as substance, a nervous wheel-spin before the writer says what they want to say. Cut it and start after the cut.

the Social Network film is really funny now. Apart from the idea of Zuckerberg being fast-talking and quick-witted, every cameo character is in the Epstein emails

"Mustafa served alongside the United States military in Afghanistan. Like so many other Afghans who helped American forces, he later came to the US for its promise of refuge. When I met him recently, though, he had only just left an ICE detention center after months behind bars."

“Dangit I hate gift shopping for my family, they’re so hard to buy f—“

What’s “your dish” this Thanksgiving? Mine’s an improved version of David Tanis’ haricot verts and olives

MARKEY PICKS UP A BARSTOOL

I no longer watch football (or any other professional sport), but I still think we should gift the Detroit Lions a Super Bowl win for free.

I read this article, and I almost wish I hadn’t. Preferential treatment toward the ultrarich has allowed them to develop lifestyles that escape all sense of being a part of this country. If pressed, they’ll defend their comfort above all else.

Mr Hulot’s Holiday was my introduction to comedy cinema, which should tell you EXACTLY how old my father was

Every year I forget how much I loathe The Little Drummer Boy

Finished writing one new talk, currently retooling a second one, got a month or so until I have to produce a third. What a beautiful Sunday for PowerPoint.

Everyone in my life, starting when I was eight: “You’re an academician.” Me for decades: I’ll try literally anything else

Gawd DAMN I make good coffee

After translating two novels about audiophilia, I know just enough to want to hear about the equipment!

We’re about to find out the extent to which the price of Bitcoin affects sentiment re: the economy

This is very probably not true, but if it gives someone an idea, then hey

John K. Fairbank’s flashcards. #sinology

It turns out “[my country] first“ and “why are we giving money to [slur] instead of our people” is pretty universal. Some americans thinking those sentiments are bad is more of an exception

I believe I already blocked the white-guy China journo who would hate this argument the most

One of my students told me today that my premodern Chinese lit class has been his favorite class in four years at UVA 🥰

I love how many of these late-Qing popular songs are basically, “This random guy jumped over the garden wall while I was picking veggies, begged me on his knees to sleep with him, and now I’m *really* hoping we get married.”

“Indoctrination” = being exposed to other facets of the real world

Border Patrol conducting “enforcement” in a city far from any border and without public justification is an unacceptable abuse of power. These arrests in Charlotte, driven by racial profiling, destabilize communities and violate basic civil rights. (1/2)

How much does one wish to bet they’ve destroyed a lot of evidence?

“Peril” as in The Yellow Peril

"How to Report ICE" #Charlotte edition zine is up! drive.google.com/file/d/1p_vF...

Still amazed by the persistent belief that if you dunk on someone hard enough, they’ll somehow dematerialize off the face of the earth and you’ll never have to deal with them again.

Reportage in the Chinese Speaking World can now be pre-ordered from University of Michigan Press: press.umich.edu/Books/R/Repo...

One of these lies dead in the wilds: white rushes wrap it.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

焚書 and 藏書, but you cannot see them because they have been burned or hidden

Blues Padres 2000

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Quoting for my Christmas list

Thanos, Destroyer of the Universe: *kicks a puppy* Kristi Noem: Skill issue

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Am I the only person in the US who kind of hates that damn song? You know the one. Couldn’t he have varied the melody just the tiniest bit?

I am only just now listening to Kind of Blue for the first time ever.

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

Printed a version of this for nonbookmaker folks ("our community says" instead of "bookmakers & binders say"), with a neon green border under black ink:

This is my response to most of Bluesky, but to this especially

Goddamn right

Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

UVA parents weekend is an absolutely suffocating crush of white wealth

I find your lack of tuna disturbing. 🤣🤣🤣