Did Gregory of Nyssa write this ad copy

will we, as a society, ever recover from the Wirecutter recommending that one Panasonic toaster oven?

HEATED RIVALRY (2025)

everything is about sex except for sex. Sex is about hockey.

you can be mean to me again :)))))))))))))))))))))))

i'm in this!

The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears

ultimately, I accomplished what I set out to achieve this year: secure my Amtrak Select status for the second year running

this is, to the pixel, what a Harold Bloom seminar looked like

dammit. the production of "Travesties" with Tom Hollander about 8 years back was the best thing I've ever seen in a theater. I went 3 times.

they should kiss

be sweet to the gay men in your life today; they probably did not manage to get tickets in the presale for Robyn's NYE show in Brooklyn and are having a rough go of it.

the second biggest headline on the NYT right now is about the Harvard-Yale game you cannot make this up

I nor on his wood tilly “AI!”

Tonight’s about to pop off

hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)

[driving to work in a completely normal way, but having seen one battle after another for the second time last night]: wow this is just like one battle after another. the scene with the cars.

hear me out............... macroplastics

hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)

the shipment has arrived and the panic augmented. help!!!!!

terrible night for small liberal arts colleges in Maine that are not Bowdoin

pronouncing cisgender like an italian would

i have bean club panic

wake me up when this website is no longer the Platner Chatner

I am going to start a website called stupidgayjobs.com where if you're gay you can go and get a stupid job that you're just naturally good at even though you have no traditional qualifications for it

has a title ever more perfectly described its own show?

every single thing about this Bill Nighy interview is the most delightful thing I've ever heard. you are ok Bill Nighy!!

Tana French’s “The Likeness” is a better novel than Donna Tartt’s “Secret History”

thrilled to report that this is the real, official sample application on the Fulbright website

listen, I know Pynchon isn't exactly Dan Brown, but he is one of the best-regarded literary novelists in the country! good grief!

NYT print one true fact challenge (difficulty impossible)

I too will be investing up to $100 billion dollars into OpenAI. Absolutely no more than that

people are going say Falstaff for this but it's actually Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, who was obsessed with Helen for "burn[ing] the topless towers of alium"

A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

LET'S GOOOOOO

"Stove" is actually the past tense of "Steve"

more like MS Paint amirite

I absolutely LOVE it when a peer reviewer makes up something I haven't said and then quibbles with that thing that, again, I did not say

Oh, you're going to buy the flowers yourself? Should we have a party? should we invite Professor Brierly? He knows everything in the whole world about Milton.

is there any way to stop the e-bookification of digital scholarly books?? so many resources I have relied on in the past are becoming unusable!

I––––––––––––––– give up

jesus, is today international "send Gabriel an e-mail that completely ignores/forgets a previous exchange" day?? should we throw a party? should we invite people, change the time of the event, and then forget we've changed it??

unfortunately i DID think this was Rosamund Pike and she WOULD crush this role

idk if this will shock anyone who knows me but I had a MAJOR savage garden phase

no better feeling than trying to cite something kind of odd and then that thing is THE example given in the Chicago Manual of Style. what a RUSH!!!

makes you think

sign up for my SAA seminar if you are a huge nerd!! #shax2026