Canadians don’t say “eh” anymore. It was bullied out of us. And I think that’s sad.

Even though he does it 3+ times a day every day, sometimes it seems like my dog forgets how to shit.

Characters are rarely described as “adenoidal” these days.

I’m still thinking about the scene in THE PARALLAX VIEW when Warren Beattie gets on a plane and buys a ticket from a stewardess after they take off.

I would like to be either raptured or not raptured.

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy. To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre

we're having some really good luck with persuasion; they hate what it's done to all their services and daily interactions and they HATE stealing from their own capacities and wellbeing to fuel a bubble. try the speeches and short persuasive/informative reading assignments here? against-a-i.com

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

First day of fall means that I’m sharing my favorite @letterboxd.social list again, which has been updated a bunch since last October.

Live your life so that your funeral doesn't have a crawl shilling merch.

I think maybe 20 years ago I’d have found this sentiment too straightforward to be admirable, but in the year 2025 and after 692 pages of Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, it took the breath out of me.

“No matter where in it we go, shall we find all the World Tyrants and Slaves?”

as an English professor, I’ll tell you how I know a student used ChatGPT. I know because I’m a humanist & I know what a human voice sounds like—like body, history, community, & love. a human voice is alive in ways ChatGPT will never be, will never sound. your human voice is a gift. use it.

My hardboiled hot take is that Hammett>Chandler, but it’s on the strength of his short fiction, not his novels.

“No matter where in it we go, shall we find all the World Tyrants and Slaves?”

JOB: St. Thomas Moore College at the University of Saskatchewan has posted an open position for an Indigenous faculty member. Tenure-track at the rank of Assistant Prof. This is an open search, so the person can apply to any department at STM. stmcollege.ca/documents/wo...

Congratulations to Leonard Diepeveen, Emeritus George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric on his forthcoming memoir, When I Come Back We Will Talk!

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Hot damn

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Woke is bullshit. It's horseshit. It exists as a false affront to assholes who just want to asshole. It's fascism that is the enemy of free and open speech. Fascism is and always was the great shut-up and shut-it-down censor of debate and discussion. Fuck all these corporate whores.

Realizing that being a sessional lecturer for a decade has really done a number on my confidence.

It was a mistake to rewatch ALIEN before starting ALIEN EARTH.

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

Is ALIEN the only of Ridley Scott’s films to feature overlapping dialogue like a Robert Altman film? #filmsky

People have a real hard time distinguishing the ideology of their professor from the ideology of the institution that employs them.

Has anyone read Adam Kelly’s New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age? If so, thoughts?

Watched MASH last night, and while I admire the filmmaking and the acting, Jesus Christ is it the most misogynist film I’ve seen in a long time. #filmsky

Has anyone read Adam Kelly’s New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age? If so, thoughts?

In order to proof against AI cheating, assessments in my courses will now take the form of Taskmaster-style challenges during every class meeting.

“Doctor Grimesby Roylott” is a real S-tier character name.

In order to proof against AI cheating, assessments in my courses will now take the form of Taskmaster-style challenges during every class meeting.

Here’s my dog, Josie, and her Lamb Chop toy. Try to guess which is which.

Here’s my dog, Josie, and her Lamb Chop toy. Try to guess which is which.

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

Remember a few years ago when conservatives were up in arms about trigger warnings, and some universities tried to placate them by being like “no warnings in our classes, snowflakes!”

Remember a few years ago when conservatives were up in arms about trigger warnings, and some universities tried to placate them by being like “no warnings in our classes, snowflakes!”

A+

TIL that Edward Gorey was a style icon

The Empire Strikes First is probably Bad Religion’s best album of the 21st century. I still don’t know what a “Sinister Rouge” is, though.

Relatable Lovecraft content.

Incidentally I’m teaching “The Purloined Letter” on Wednesday.

Incidentally I’m teaching “The Purloined Letter” on Wednesday.

So the news is particularly stomach-churning today

Why is it that my students need a copy of the PowerPoint in advance or they can’t take notes?

TIL that Edward Gorey was a style icon

Has someone made a short, approachable video about the ills of AI? There's lots of great written resources I could assign students, but I think showing them something in class might be more effective.

“bowdlerized” sounds like it should be doing the opposite.

My book is in here. Any academics signing on to the Anthropic settlement?