hey! i'm on the radio right now! www.wgvunews.org/common-threads

when i sign off for the week in a couple hours, i'm signing off _hard_.

back to the ol' radio/cd player in the office. f#@k streaming.

when you flag so many emails for follow-up that the little flags become meaningless.

ides of january 24th moon. +hilary

@parismarx.com hi Paris, we are a group of Vancouver parents that have started a petition to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms. It would help so much if you could share it 🙏 actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

day before the ides of january. 23rd moon. +benedict biscop, romanizing northumbrian.

5th before the ides of january. 20th moon. +abbot hadrian, born in africa and instructor at the early famous school in canterbury w/ his partner in crime (in a manner of speaking), theodore of tarsus.

the major loss from the abolishing of aristocratic patronage of the arts? the genre of the dedicatory poem. i don't want the aristocracy back, but the form will languish until they're ensconced back in their manors.

setting up a new class on anglo-saxon england & a revised one on epic. neck-deep in some of the greatest literature & criticism out there, trying to figure out how to share this meaningfully w/ about 40 20-30 year-olds starting next week. i really do love my work.

seriously.

hey people, be well out there. a lot of turmoil. take time for silence and smile at the moon.

6th before the ides of january. luna 19. Cassiliæ in Hibernia, sancti Ælberti, episcopi, angli natione diuque pro Christo peregrini.

Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work is available for pre-order (and 10% off at the moment!) If something about your work life is troublesome, you hate jargon and you aren't sure about Catholic teaching, I wrote it for you. www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-a-...

Reading Robert Kelly 3

got a discman from some awesome friends for christmas this year. dear reader, i'm listening to a cd w/ headphones as i type, and it is glorious.

who's continuing gadamer's line of thinking these days? #philosophy

Here’s · R L · powell and “Polaroids I didn’t take only to leave in Basque” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/rl-powell #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #RLPowell

yikes. i disagree with my colleagues throughout the university (and my department) on many things, some fundamental. the virtue of a university is that we get to do that and all still be in the same place, learning and teaching together. wtf is this?

the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats

happy 1,225th anniversary of the imperial crowning of charlemagne!

the 13yo is beginning _1984_ this morning. it begins!

a brief and late entry, but made it up before the new year. ague-weed! #plantwatching #poems #wisconsin jacobriyeff.com/2025/12/24/s...

solidarity post for all those parents i've seen over the last few months posting on their families' weeks' long bouts of illness in the house. we're on week 4 here, people. whew.

maybe framing higher ed as seeking to produce "fecund" minds? is that anything?

My good friend Seth Wieck from Amarillo, TX has a book of poems out in February, pre-order now. Seth is a fine poet with a narrative bent, a contemplative bent, and a view of the world from the prairie. @riyeff.bsky.social , you may like. www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p172/C...

we've had at least one sick kid in the house for 3-4 weeks. kind of seems like it's lifting today, but don't even want to say it out loud. so i'll say it here.

With AI systems deployed at schools misidentifying a bag of Doritos and a clarinet for weapons in recent months, I'm resharing my library Against School Surveillance Technologies in case anybody is looking for news stories, peer-reviewed articles, reports, and other media to teach.

is the root lesson of the sneetches that capitalism intrinsically preys on human vice?

I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

e.g.: 17th day before the kalends of january. 25th moon. +ADELAIDE of burgundy, EMPRESS (wife of otto i, benefactress of the poor, crowned empress by john xii, of the swabian ducal line)

re-visiting the imperial early medieval church in western europe to develop this #oldenglish class next term, and man i tell you just endlessly fascinating from my dire ambivalence to it all.

new ethos for my #oldenglish class next term: if you don't know what neustria is, you can't really understand old english literature.

there's so much damn beauty in the world. what the hell are we doing most of the time?

vigil time.

kind of bummed i never got to accidentally hang out with gregory corso in a bar one night.

believe it or not, this was a key part of the soundtrack as i put together my first book (when i was avoiding my dissertation late at night in the @NotreDame library), a translation of st. aethelwold's #oldenglish translation of the rule of st. benedict. litpress.org/Products/CS2...

remember m83's "midnight city"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k...

currently reading walter benjamin's "on hashish."

look folks, i didn't know about walter benjamin's 'on hashish' until two days ago. yeesh.

whippin' up some lucia buns with my 11yo!

when "AI" is added to something, it's intended to tempt or divert users from whatever effort they were trying to make to do something and to opt instead for passive consumption, for disengagement and self-delusion

day before the ides of december. 21st moon. +virginis de guadalupe

home sweet home! the rock underlies my whole imagination of what it means to be a human walking the earth.

"It’s classic neoliberal jiu-jitsu: reframe the erosion of institutional norms as a character-building opportunity. Yeah, like a drug dealer lecturing about personal responsibility while handing out free samples." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

"Welcome to the brave new world of parasocial machine bonding—sponsored by the campus center for teaching excellence. The moment was absurd but revealing; the university wasn’t resisting bullshit education, it was onboarding it." well said after well said. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

hear, hear!

first consistently snowy december in #wisconsin in a while. nice.

5th day before the ides of december. 18th moon. +st. juan diego (sancti ioannis didaci cuauhtlatoatzin)

no, i don't want to unlock any of the potentials with your new software product.