Tonight my household will be watching the next episode of Fallout, Perfect Days and perhaps a Wallace and Gromit. What are your Xmas Eve viewing plans?

Nobody wants this.

Instead of feeling ragey and blasted by everything, just for a moment, I'm giving thanks for how Spinal Tap has shaped my vocabulary and world view.

Does this site work for recipes? If so can you send me your perfect vegetarian stuffing or gravy?

Terrific essay on close reading away from elite spaces by @johannawinant.bsky.social

From the archives: 1986 junior semester abroad in London datebook. Saw My Bloody Valentine, The Shop Assistants and Pop Will Eat Itself in Camden, Billy Bragg in Glasgow and in Kilburn in one week. Plus a Highgate cemetery tour and improv Hamlet. You go, younger me!

Cambridge folk, I am giving a talk on Tuesday 18th Nov, 5 pm, at the English Faculty 9 West Road called "Destructive Characters: Graham Greene to the KLF". There will be Walter Benjamin plus film clips! Come along if you are so inclined; I understand there will be wine.

What are they going to do, rename the West Wing "The Wing"? On the plus side, we all have a front row seat for primitive accumulation and destruction in action. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

I enjoyed One Battle After Another but given the choice I would definitely hire the characters in Andor to do my revolution.

I'm praying for a social media that is nothing but pictures of the young Robert Redford from now on. Is that too much to ask?

Yay! Bloomsbury put a sample up online. Here it is!

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and together they will save the Arts and Humanities and rid the world of AI!”

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!

People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!

The Gluten Free Pasta will Never Be Eaten

I realize I’m not Catholic & this is all none of my business, but like most Jewish girls, I thought the Vatican Rag was amazing & I’ve occasionally imagined going to confession because it seemed like an offbeat way to get therapy

Hey new Pope! Remember your Villanova University roots, and use your papal dispensation to keep the Paoli/Thorndale Line running. #PaoliLocal #MaybetooLocal whyy.org/articles/sep...

Do we get to say “No pope, radio”?

Add a tariff and ruin a movie. Tax Driver

Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...

Goodbye Joshua Clover, critic and poet, a singular brilliance who made good trouble. (And maybe a little of the bad kind.) The world shrinks and grows duller immediately with this shocking news. I feel lucky I knew you, and ache for those who knew you better. And who the fuck *is Mick Jagger?

Here for the giant curlew news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

imagine laws, but for rich people.

this is the real university

A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

America stand with this server.

As Nick Lowe put it, I don’t think it’s funny no more, cracking up.

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

If you're listening out for the winds of resistance, the folks at the Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social are worth following

It will always be this one for me. But so many others too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Nx...

I want my Cabaret and I want it now.

I put on my Dylan playlist to do yoga and this is the first song that comes up. What's the German word for serendipity except for catastrophic despair? www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Rankings kill.

The Onion is always there first.

Wow. You had me at Now Voyager! Nice work, A Complete Unknown. This frequently grumpy Dylan fan is very happy.

Y’all. Stop talking to that AI lady.

Amy Rigby & Wreckless Eric (who [wisely] aren’t on here) have a new holiday single, “Festive AF,” proceeds benefit WCK wrecklessericamyrigby.bandcamp.com/track/festiv...

This is in lieu of a holiday card to every one of you celebrity capybaras on my list. Happy, healthy, non-catastrophic holidays all around. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hitler teases German expansion The chancellor-elect has suggested a territorial extension into Austria, the Sudetenland and Poland. If he's serious, it would rival the Treaty of Utrecht.

Saltdean 22 Dec 2024. Let there be light and wind farms.

Happy birthday, @billybragg.bsky.social Still holding on to that socialism of the heart (and wishing it would start appearing anywhere else). www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6LB...