This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

In October, my bike I store on campus was stolen. On Friday, I FOUND IT!!

Cannot recommend highly enough wandering around your alma mater with your best friends from college 22 years (an actual lifetime) after you graduate!

Oh AI Overviews, never change.

Recently came face to face with (multiple) transcripts of my spoken words, and, basically, I'm this guy.

Finally had a student have more trouble finding the button to leave a Zoom room than I do.

Shoutout to everyone else whose day involves Easter baskets in the morning and a Seder at night.

Months late to the discourse (as always!), but have we discussed the fact that maybe the reason Heated Rivalry was such a success is that it's a show where basically nothing goes wrong and we all need that in our lives?

Is 45k words enough?

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

I love the big rallies, but I also love that today I drove by multiple "rallies" on a rural road that were just 1-3 people and some signs.

Good ideas for book inversely proportional to time available to work on book.

I'd like to apologize to my neighbors who have had to listen to me literally yelling about various AI related things for 2 weeks straight.

Are you a current grad student working with modernist texts? If so, check out the launch of the new MSA Graduate Mentorship Publication Program! The program is designed to support MSA’s graduate student members develop a draft article to submission standard with an experienced academic mentor.

In the latest post on the "Orientations" blog on Print Plus, Laura Hartmann-Villalta writes on "Gertrude Stein in Circles: An Exhibition Review of Stein’s Life and Fandom at the George Peabody Library." Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Finally updated my OS and all I can say is THESE CORNERS ARE TOO ROUND.

Who can I sue to get back the hours of my life I now spend checking students' sources?

Sometimes I have to go look up Hotbox's "Spicy Pickle Pizza" to prove to myself that it was real (and delicious).

My Bay Area hippy homeschool collective once went to a tofu factory.

The Space Between Journal is on Bluesky! Follow us to see all the wonderful scholarship and other cool stuff we've got on 😊 bsky.app/profile/spac...

Spectacular!

Look, I don't mean to brag, but today for the first time I discovered how useful browser tabs are.

Retail therapy via enchilada sauce.

Hey modernists! Planning to go to MLA next year? Want to be part of this conversation? mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Fighting back against the algorithmically generated internet by texting friends links.

Although, cheekily, she is neither 19th c. nor British, this is where you can read about May Birkhead!

Piggybacking on this to boost a session I'm organizing that very much wants to hear from contingent faculty! mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

There are a number of #MLA27 calls for papers focused on contingent faculty — please check them out… mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

Who among us has not tried to use paperclips as hair ties?

How does one write a scholarly book in the face of the conviction that no one reads scholarly books?

Mostly the internet is bad, but I just read a review of a Rancho Gordo bean varietal that described it as having "main character energy," so I think I'll probably stick around.

Reposting for the Friday crowd...

As a person who’s spent decades trying to decide whether to call my hair brown or black in my driver’s license, looks like I have my answer!

My desert island revision strategy is reverse outlining.

I am once more alarmed to find that I have A LOT to say about Ezra Pound.

Law & Lit folks (and others): where can I go read more about the outdated legal phrase "To all of whom these presents shall come, Greetings"?

It is the highest form of compliment for me to say I've been finding this series of episodes so stimulating I cannot listen them before bed.

Blaming the sunk-cost fallacy for my poor relationship to the internet.

What could be better than SHARP? SHARP + MSA! Check out this CFP on Modernism in Ephemeral Print! 💚

Jealous of everyone whose house has enough insulation where it's not 51 degrees indoors in the morning.

Nobody warned me how much of academia would be me inventing work for myself.

In a brief and convenient phase where my son and I can swap clothes and shoes.

This view never disappoints

Dementia comes with many indignities. Not least, your daughter encountering your NSFW emails while searching for important files.

I started yelling at the radio during an interview with her, when she started worrying about the effect of people being too mean to LLMs on the internet.

Looks like @mcsweeneys.net should run a "Moby Dick chapter title or note in my Notes App" quiz.

Fascinated that the “flannel PJ pants as school attire” trend (which was big in the late 90s/early 00s) seems to have this time migrated from the middle schoolers TO the college students, instead of the opposite.

Pretty amazing that most of us said if we we ever got to retire we’d like to make music or art or write and the tech guys said oh I can make a program to do that and it will cost trillions in debt so now you’ll get to work in a bad job til the day you die to help pay it off.

My kid discovered Ground Hog Day on the February calendar for the first time, and asked if he got the day off.

Never mind all the really great classes I took. The one I think about most, 20+ years later, is the nutrition class where the professor told us that he ate healthy all week, and then on Fridays would order 2 pizzas and eat one that night, and the other one the next day.