2017-19 I had a recurring minor nightmare that I was wearing allbirds and couldn’t take them off

I love Research

Jesus wept. What does it say about the Mark Carney Liberals that a homophobic, Ivermectin-hawking Trumpist loon like Marilyn Gladu is comfortable joining them and they’ll happily accept her? 😬

the cultural differences between Ontario and Alberta are usually overstated, but growing up in Toronto did not prepare me for the West’s love of Nazis

loved the performances in The Drama but the whiplash editing reeeeeally makes it

another ten trillion points to god’s favorite daughter (derogatory)

newly obsessed w Japanese psych rockers Kikagaku Moyo music.apple.com/us/album/meu...

huge moment for Bad Movie fans who are also Zora Neale Hurston fans

My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

Still can't quite believe it, but THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM is the winner of the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. So, so grateful to @penamerica.bsky.social, to the judges, and to everyone who has supported this project over the past ten years!

When he texts the girl “do you like fish” and she says “not really” and he goes “fuck!”

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Courtney Barnett 🤝 Louis Zukofsky big praying mantis guys

*Usher voice* man I’m geworfen

I may turn in the article months late but I won’t do this 💞

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

even after killing modernism as a subfield we want to keep killing it lol

Solid endorsement of Avi Lewis from CIJA and Jesse "Tears of a Clown" Brown.

This is being circulated on Facebook by Indigenous friends, so if you are an academic who can offer support to this cause, please do!✍🏾 Contributions are also being accepted by Indigenous community representatives for the Legal Defence Fund for Dr. Darryl Leroux here: gogetfunding.com/dr-darryl-le...

some worries — feels like a zombie Trudeau-in-2015 playbook, I’ve had less-than-encouraging reports from people who’ve worked for him, not sure the media realizes that the federal NDP has much stronger support in the prairies than in Ontario — but the Lewis platform is very attractive!

Tubi is the best streaming platform and this may be the greatest of her offerings: tubitv.com/movies/70929...

this is WILD

Jacqueline Rose‘s “Sexuality in the Field of Vision” !!

Congratulations to @miayou.bsky.social for her Best of the Net inclusion for her "Poets on Translation" essay! 👏

from “The Art of Fiction no.268: Marie NDiaye”

this one is very easy to answer — campus protests declined after we criminalized campus protests

organizing gets the goods

Iranian Scott Storch??

For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/

It is SO WEIRD how damning reports into government actions are always delivered to the government on Fridays of long weekends (or the start of spring break). Bizarre. Uncanny. open.alberta.ca/dataset/35ee... #ableg #cdnpoli

okay now it’s personal

I watched Hamnet last night — great! — because of this idiotic NYTimes roundtable

read a genuinely loathsome — recent! — academic article and the hatred has me feeling ALIVE

I’m a Secret Agent deadender 🤗

WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!

"A department generating high credit-hour production across the university but with few declared majors is not an inefficient department. It is a department whose students are not being counted in the metric being used against it."

will we get a Dona Sebastiana red carpet look???

great episode of a great pod! learning the media history background to The Leg Scene was mindblowing

If any Oscar Telecast writers follow me can you please please please arrange there to be ONE Ella McCay joke on the show? It will kill, I promise

Yesterday I was at a great talk by Sita Balani. She and many others (e.g. @quinnslobodian.com) are doing great work on the "zones" of contemporary capital, in which universities are now eagerly taking part. It's explicit UKHE strategy, for example. read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Note there is nothing in this piece about the benefit to students. "Success" is defined in this piece as capacity to further the program of commercial capture of education & revenue-generation through distance-learning. An example here and then a laughable follow-up in my next post.

this 314 day, let us fondly recall the St. Louis Commune, and the general strike of 1877 jacobin.com/2021/07/st-l...

this is the perfect NYTimes take

come hang w me + Corinna + Laura at ASAP in October! asap17.exordo.com/submissions/...

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

My other book is about to come out!

this novel combines all of my interests reading it will satisfy all of my intellectual needs

kind of goes without saying but the punctuation in Cormac McCarthy is not a mistake