@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social thank you for sharing my piece on FB!! I appreciate you sharing my sensitivity to students. andytown.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/m...

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social thank you for sharing my piece on FB!! I appreciate you sharing my sensitivity to students. andytown.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/m...

operator: 911, please state your emergency me: uh yeah i want to place a bet on who the next james bond is gonna be operator: yep. ready me: $500 on john smoltz operator: ah, good ol’ smoltzie me: no i said “smoltz” operator: oh i know. that’s just his nickname me: i need to speak to your supervisor

I used to get so into March Madness. Now the only March Madness I get is when I see a young person disrespectfully wearing a stocking cap inside a Cracker Barrel.

My pick for the sexiest movie of all time and I feel like that's a pretty big accolade from someone who has established that "sexy" is a pretty huge category on his review ballot.

TV Guide Son of Sniglet Katharine Hepburn’s ME

Thank you for caring, Facebook

I need to apologize to the fake news left wing woke liberal media. For the last week, I've been accusing them of stealing my lawn chair. It turns out my wife threw it away. Apologies fake news left wing woke liberal media.

I never saw CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC. What did she confess to? Murder?

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

My New Year’s resolution was to read 365 words this year. I finished it at 12:10 pm on January 2nd. It was a menu.

If you get the director of ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL on the horn and you’re not asking questions about P.J. Soles and Joe Dante, I don’t even know what.

hey y'all - can you load me up with the best readings you've read about video games from the last ten years or so? Pls plug your own work, and would love to hear about some books.

Preparing my proposal for Steven Speilberg for WAR WALRUS: my theatrical puppet show about the brave walruses who played a pivotal role in World War I. here's an excerpt: "zwe have defeated ze Americans. ze Kaiser vill be delighted!" "oh no! look out for zat valrus!"

My inspirational book "Sweat the Small Stuff (There Is No Small Stuff)" was not a popular stocking stuffer despite a concentrated marketing push to neurotics, jerks, worrywarts, hypochondriacs, and thickheads.

the sense i've developed during my Rosalind Russell obsession is that she always found herself playing characters who found conventional glamour kind of stupid, so she's rarely framed that way in her movies. This shot from FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM is an exception. god, what a human being.

hey all - there are breakup albums, but are there break-up novels? novels written in the (often-toxic, occasionally productive) wake of a relationship ending? I'm thinking of authors more than plots. Maybe it's a "divorce" novel. Anyone?

I'm watching the new Colman Domingo show on Netflix - he's an actor who I now will be excited to see in anything. You just hope that the show will live up to his tremendous talent and presence. In that sense, he reminds me of a young Jack Nicholson. 1/?

I hate to get political, but I have to say this: if you think Naked Gun 33 and 1/3rd is better than Naked Gun 2 and 1/2, please unfriend me.

Here's the thing: If you can't spot the gravy boat as soon as you sit at the thanksgiving table, YOU are the gravy boat.

Any movie is a christmas movie if it‘s set in a year when christmas occurs.

Saving for when I teach Orlando again

Watching Cars 3 with my kid, which I’ve never seen: what are the usual rankings for these? Is the first one still the best? So far I like 3 better than 2

#losangeles #la people - In the early 80s, what would have been the main sources for local news in newspaper? I'm assuming the LA Times had a "local" section, would the LA Weekly be the next choice, or any other that were specifically metro-area specific?

hello, I'm looking for your favorite pieces of critical video game writing in the last, let's say, five years. Please promote your own work. I'm thinking not so much of reviews, but analytical and historical writing (and I realize some of the best of it is on YouTube). Pls repost or gimme a name!

hello, I'm looking for your favorite pieces of critical video game writing in the last, let's say, five years. Please promote your own work. I'm thinking not so much of reviews, but analytical and historical writing (and I realize some of the best of it is on YouTube). Pls repost or gimme a name!

Interesting fact about SPARTACUS: you know that stirring scene where the other slave warriors pretend to be Spartacus? In an early draft, Dalton Trumbo just had all the slaves point to Spartacus and say "He's Spartacus!"

Mary Pickford in tuxedo for KIKI

this is maybe my favorite title card ever. two of my absolute favorites. i wish, in addition to this movie where Van is the reason for Joan's emotional torture, they had made a romantic comedy as well.

I have a chapter in this! On Siskel and Ebert! Please tell your librarian to buy! www.routledge.com/Broadening-t...

I finished teaching BOYS IN THE BAND today. Students had a lot of good thoughts. I found a PDF of the first part of the play, and Tony Kushner's intro here: proudmarytheatre.com/wp-content/u... And then we watched parts of the 2020 and the 1970 to compare notes. Next up is ANGELS IN AMERICA.

just finished a virtual class week on Lupe Velez and Dolores Del Rio for my 40s women class. This was one of those "I haven't read this so I'll read it before class" type things. Their representation and their vehicles was/were troubling, but their charisma/intelligence something else.

Hey y’all I’m off the bad place. Give me a follow and I’ll do it in return. Interests include pepperoni and the fiction of Daphne du Maurier. I don’t like the movie BIRDMAN.

Wish I knew more about Montague Summers. Love this Behn pic. She looks like a character in a CATHY comic (ack!)

Here's what I want. A device that would let you rewind an hour to give you an extra hour, because life is too full and glorious for twenty four hours. The device would let you go back and live that hour over. And I would use this device to rob banks.

“Maybe it’s your other pants” “I ain’t got no other pants!”

i really hope when i look back on my life years from now, my greatest memory is not of writing this post

the first line of my abstract for a conference (SEASECS) is: "This paper is concerned with powerful men in the seventeenth century who sigh a lot."

I am in Manchester (UK) but briefly am here to say that sometimes you walk into an archive, open to the 1st page of the 1st item you need, and you hit pay dirt. Lords and ladies of Bluesky behold a #18thc scrapbook page of tobacco wrappers with enigmas and rebuses.

This is excellent

And since the football team is bad, then they’ll buy his contract out and pay someone else on top of that

"Hey guys, I'm out of here. I'm going to hang out with the Blowfish." - Hootie

TIL that John Keats "once covered his tongue and throat as far as he could reach with Cayenne pepper, in order to appreciate the ‘delicious coldness of claret in all its glory,’"

going through Aphra Behn's poetry today and sharing highlights:

We demand to be taken seriously.

More sighs! From Aphra Behn's (or the Aphra Behn-ish) Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister. Sylvia trapped in a morass of desire that can't be totally mediated by the letters she depends on. But there's also a "rhetoric" in "sighs and silent touches" that gives "a sense and soft meaning.."

hi all - I'm going to use this social pace to comment on my book project, which is about sighs: so I'm going to offer my favorite sighs here every now and then. first up, Johnny/Jackie D's Holy Sonnet: