what am I watching? take one guess

Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, and Jack Lemmon for Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder (1959)

When someone asks what my favorite books are, I can never remember the title of any book I've ever read in my entire life.

The only acceptable use of Claude

Please read this entire thread so I don’t have to repost every post 😆

no. next question

Nice thing to see on my way home.

It’s wild that the person with the most wealth on Earth is also somehow the most pathetic loser alive

If you created a TV show, what would be the fictional show-within-a-show that all your characters would watch?

took a moment to add this decoration to my work office of the funniest thing to have ever happened in the history of art

lunch meetings: meetings where it is neither appropriate nor practical to eat lunch.

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

The biggest problem with the failure of neoliberalism in universities is that people are going to act like the issue is the democratisation of higher education, when it isn’t.

I teach a course on art criticism and made my students create video-essay film reviews, of which we watched the first results today. they did a great job but it also stirred up an interesting discussion about how literally films and TV shows need to deal with sensitive cultural or political topics

I am sad we are boycotting Eurovision. No regrets and no doubts, just sad cause i love Eurovision and i miss the happy buzz around it. But we can't let the EBU & Israel keep destroying it.

hearing about movies being turned into TV shows these days gives me the same exhaustion i used to get from learning about "live action" Disney remakes. it's a long-standing tradition, but the ones we get now just sound like padded versions of the real thing, as opposed to something worth doing.

2700 academic staff at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social received formal notice today that their job is at risk. Approximately 1-in-5 (22%) will lose their job. In an interview in today’s @timeshighered.bsky.social the university’s VC responded “it’s an exciting time for higher education”.

Maybe this Canvas hack should be a cautionary tale for AI implentation into teaching aside from the 1000 other reasons why we shouldn‘t normalize it but what do I know

We need to talk about the fact that the nonfiction stacks at Barnes & Noble are no longer alphabetized. I went in today to find a book that I knew was in stock.The bookseller and I walked around the store for 15 min before we found it. I've done some digging, this is on purpose.... 1/x

counterpoint: this is an amazing bit

she didn't even get the theme memo

this prequel is completely unnecessary and I won’t watch it… but who named it Gary

Very possibly obsessed with this The film strips are apparently from the film Sabrina, which is EXTREMELY meta

she may be cringe but she is free

costume/fashion art, my ✨specialty✨! in no particular order: time for the best and worst met gala looksss (images all from the guardian)

Associate Professor

there’s nothing more humbling than starting a new hobby in your 30s. I roller skate on quads now. 🛼 am I good at it? no. but am I being brave while doing it? somehow also no.

the last category is always like ‘words written on the back of sports clothes worn by famous poets - without the letter P’

we've moved beyond cognitive dissonance, we're now being asked to fully disassociate to do our jobs (while we have them!!)

examples of midcentury sad girls in film and literature?

Gonna tell my kids this was Madness doing their One Step Beyond anniversary tour.

really enjoying the second season of beef

today, two of my students showed me the pitbull costumes they wore at a concert. highlight of my day

I’d love to assign self-congratulatory hollywood films for this - The Fabelmans is the most insufferable I’ve seen, but Babylon would be great to hate-watch too, because it tries sooo hard to be better than Singin’ in the Rain

AI offering to summarize the article I just downloaded is a little like a restaurant offering to have someone eat the meal I just ordered.

once again, nobody stopped me from my impulsive actions: booked a holiday to see french speaking friends in switzerland, looked into a language class to brush up on my french, immediately received an intake phone call, panicked, and enrolled. my first class is tonight and I have homework. au secours

Twin Peaks: The Log Lady.

I discussed hoax reality show Jury Duty during a seminar on genre conventions yesterday and only then found out they made another season of what I thought was a brilliant but unrepeatable show

back at short form posting - expect an academic’s rants on tv, film, costumes, and more