eat ‘em up tigers

turning into someone who brings crosswords & their kindle reader everywhere

cheburashka-scorsese-squash shrine

Josh O’Connor on the set of ‘THE HISTORY OF SOUND’ 📸: Paul Mescal

HISTORY OF SOUND is surprisingly henry james-coded (& maybe some thoreau, some sarah orne jewett?)

booke booke reade a booke then anothir booke aftir that anothir booke bookes are freakinge awesome

i cannot comprehend that anyone can visualize a length in centimeters besides maybe 10cm

umich rolling out the red carpet for lecture tonight by former MI gov/energy sec/very pro-isra*l jen granholm—security guys in tight blazers, DPSS installing cameras. do i sense fear of students & community exercising their 1A rights? farming data for more disciplinary cases for being “disruptive”?

The trailer for Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly starring George Clooney is here 👀 In select theaters November 14 and on Netflix December 5.

every time i hear a michigander say “meijers” i die a little

i just cannot believe that so many people are absolutely terrified of having an autistic child. what a small, conditional, cruel way to imagine loving a child.

One of the many wonderful things about woodcut prints is that their size makes them necessary to be combed over and probed. Claughton Pellew helped the revival of the medium in the early 20thC, this is 'Nnight,' from 1930.

i keep telling all who will listen: there’s no place like san antonio

langston hughes on walt whitman, 1953

i cannot believe this, but the local detroit news (which is usually unwatchable except for weather) is actually doing a good extended segment interviewing a doctor on why the government’s tirade on tylenol and autism is entirely wrong

petition for isaac chotiner to interview cathy engelbert

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song 'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn It looks like it's a-dyin' and it's hardly been born - Bob Dylan

'The Researchers.' (1970) An interesting addition to this work by William Roberts' is the inclusion of the pink-ish cover of 'Blast,' the short-lived magazine of the Vorticist movement which was referred to by its editor Ezra Pound as the 'great magenta cover'd opusculus.'

world is bad but this weekend i get to eat butter tarts, see point pelee, & enjoy live music in canada :’)

this was exacerbated by being in colorado recently, but i don’t understand skiing people. where is all that disposable income from!

internet provider raised my monthly rate and felt no remorse about it

EMMY WINNER JEFF HILLER

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

#lastfourwatched in the past 24 hours: each film unhinged in its own way

are there good contemporary noir writers, that also aren’t particularly gruesome & not related to true crime?

We think reading’s fun, actually!

Muzej neispunjenih obaveza

I understand the overall goal is to get ppl out of the academy and shrink the system to fit the agenda of the federal administration, but there also aren’t a ton of other jobs for PhD’s in humanities.

Instant pot is scary bring back the slow cooker

getting downvoted/booted by moderator on a wnba forum for criticizing shameless capitalist ambitions & increasing use of corpospeak in sports <<<

have officially become someone who loves sports—with the exception of football (dangerous) & soccer (uninterested)—& my world is a little brighter for it

generally agree with grammar/spelling no longer taking up much importance in paper grading (i still think it should have some weight)…but the writing level of most of my college students, with the exception of nonnative speakers whom i mostly give a pass, is at maybe an 8th-9th grade level.

i think having a desktop computer would make me noticeably less miserable doing work

Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney craft a kind of chemistry that is equal parts funny and heart-wrenching.

I published the first of the two articles about my recent train trip across Bosnia and Herzegovina. This journey was fascinating and I hope you read it!

some cursed things happening at michigan in the humanities

where do you get damson plums/prunes in the us! i used to always get them at central market in texas, but in the midwest ??

football season means taking a walk around ann arbor or going to the store at the most beautiful time: during the first half when the streets are deserted!!

It’s that time again. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

don’t ask your college students wha they think about AI—it will just make you sad and anxious

i'm actually a big believer in drafting by hand. i think it helps you think in a different way then typing on a screen

people have all kinds of takes about this but as a student one of my greatest strengths was I whip ass at Blue Book exams. I have read the material and can riff on it, on command. If life had kept offering me Blue Book exams I would own half of California

postal services and libraries are the two most beautiful public goods we have

new semester, new office (with a view of actual TREES), new carlitos haircut, same old amazon trucks blocking the bike lane

@mmjs86.bsky.social are you at all connected to gui80s.com? stumbled on it while trying to find a BYTE ad cited by jenny odell & the about page mentions yugoslav computing magazines (which i’ve learned a lot about by following you!)

as a southerner in the midwest i have tried valiantly to give it a fair shake, but…portillo’s is bad