I'm excited to share the first fruits of a new direction in my research. (Feel free to call me for any Tony Kushner-related emergencies!)

Coming soon to a No Kings protest near you

Our neighbors get it.

The US Conference of Catholic bishops, as well as individual bishops, priests and deacons, sisters and brothers, and lay men and women from around the world (including myself for two years in East Africa), help migrants and refugees not because the migrants and refugees are Catholics...

I don't wish death on anyone, even rapists, but I am looking forward to the day when I can rewatch *Chinatown*. (This is an always-true sentiment, but one made freshly relevant by the L.A. fires.)

my official position on the Pope appointing Cardinal McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington DC is that it’s GLORIOUS how right-wing Catholics are spinning out over this. apparently he staunchly opposes denying communion to pro-choice politicians, which is pretty significant in that diocese!

As requested by @clairewillett.bsky.social and probably others, I've set up a link to a countdown clock to midnight on Thursday, February 6th, when Cardinal Dolan of New York turns 75 and hence has to submit his resignation. www.webcountdown.net?a=J2fVaNx

Merry Christmas, fools.

Like the aging band nerd I am, I watch no part of the Macy’s parade with so much interest as the marching bands.

The cat lover to end all cat lovers www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

Since there seem to be a lot of new professors on Bluesky, I'll re-share this link to the AAUP's "Organize Every Campus" campaign. This is a critical time for faculty to organize in defense of our students, ourselves and co-workers, and the institutions we believe in. Join us!

No despair like the despair of long days on campus when the office candy bowl contains only *bad* candy.

Watching Rita Hayworth's *Gilda* for the first time. It's great! But years of noir fandom did not prepare me for the part about the tungsten cartel.

This is a real public service, by @daralind.bsky.social. Essential reading for understanding what to expect and effective ways to respond.

Ahhhhh. I had forgotten what this site/the former site was really for: opening every 3.5 minutes--or every time I get stuck revising a sentence and it's hard and I don't wanna.

I walked into the faculty break room, and on the table where people leave food for the taking--home-baked goods, produce from their yards, leftover stuff from breakfast meetings--there was an enormous bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos and one small apple.

When I came downstairs this morning, my kid said, “I want to wear one of those, Mama!” So now she’s at preschool in a dress with a smiling cat face on it & a Jaipuri print silk scarf tied jauntily around her neck. #readyforthatEUpassport

Misha Teramura, @matthewsteggle.bsky.social & I wrote a thing for The Conversation about Alice Mustian, who in 1614 wrote and produced a play about her neighbour’s adulterous affair: theconversation.com/in-1614-a-mo...

Ohio friends: consider contacting Gov Dewine to urge him not to sign the "bathroom bill" (SB 104). Educators are in a particularly good position to made the case against this on practical grounds, though I also brought up the specter of conference/business boycotts, as in NC.