Oh for the days when your job was to count the smiles in The Iliad

Paul McCartney use is peaking Wham! up 600% Mariah Carey shows steady gains

Do you know about the 15th century carol in which the boy Jesus drowns three rich lords and ladies' sons for being dicks? Merry Christmas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TthU...

Highly recommend Cerys Hafana’s experimental/minimalist Welsh folk album. Animated by the myth of “an old man who goes for a walk in the forest and hears an angel singing so beautifully it makes him fall asleep for 350 years” ceryshafana.bandcamp.com/album/angel

wired: hounds of love is a christmas carol inspired: wuthering heights is a christmas carol

Bluesky hasn’t asked to verify my age yet. I think it’s seen my dadposting and calypsoposting and waved me through

‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀

I’ve got the (Heinrich Ignaz Franz von) Biber fever youtu.be/V4Vz8nK5pW4?...

I love this 5 second sequence from Rainbow Dance (1936), so I put it on a loop. Apologies to Len Lye.

fascists and right-wingers got really mad about this on the other site, but here's the film list for my class "Hollywood on Hollywood," an introductory history of Hollywood told through movies about movies

today trump truly became, A Big Boy

Thursday morning n-gram. Discuss:

I love how “My Guy” describes all the ways he’s mid

Oh boy - the opening paragraph cuts deep

Stoppard has died at 88. The Brantley and Billington obituaries are the most notable so far; appreciative of the man and generously acknowledging their gradual reassessment of the philosophical and emotional content of his work. Of which there is much more yet to be said. Vale.

It is, once again, St Andrew's Day

Going to start a drama school for musical theatre/opera singers that only teaches the art of guffawing and breaking into song in tavern scenes. "A toast, gentlemen!" etc. The RADA of carousing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEb...

In the post: a big Danse Macabre book.

A teenage Björk recorded a yule cat carol youtu.be/BeHunHocp5Q?...

A century of Strike and Battleship Potemkin.

Hang it all, Robert Kennedy

I don't think I nailed this piece, just between you and me, but here it is in full anyhow: on Gothic fungi www.griffithreview.com/articles/the...

Re-read this gem from @robbiemoore.bsky.social — applies to everything: ”TH Huxley imagined a planet emptied of humanity but pulsing with fungal and algal life. He used the image as a way of refuting the idea that survival of the fittest necessarily means survival of the most complex or intelligent”

"Telephone to glory, oh, what joy divine! I can feel the current moving on the line, Built by God the Father for His loved and own, We may talk to Jesus through this royal telephone." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn73...

Absolute nightmare. For professors, but also for students, who will be deprived of life-altering truths.

Extremely charming that Sharon Van Etten is (a) visiting Hobart and (b) dropping in on our tiny feminist record store for an album signing

Trust me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mym_...

Watching The Terror, many years late. Polar despair. Grim as heck. Episode 6 echoing the final shot of The Thing.

mystic bridge (with train window filter)

This epistolary novel could have been an email

Ambushed! On the Staircase

We're so back

Last minute oppo drop: he likes soccer and cricket

The managerial class have discovered the word “cadence”. Get your hands off our words, bandits!

No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.

Men will literally record an album on a four-track TEAC 144 Portastudio rather than go to therapy

I have looked on the Works that were in the desert and which you were probably saving for ye Mighty to despair at Forgive me they were lifeless so vast and so trunkless

Crackly old jazz, blues and gospel playlist for Hallowtide open.spotify.com/playlist/4T7...

They literally ruin everything they touch

When you look at your Google Scholar citations

Crackly old jazz, blues and gospel playlist for Hallowtide open.spotify.com/playlist/4T7...

This one is a bit special. I feel very lucky to have been invited to contribute an essay to a special issue of dream journal Feminist Media Histories on new methods in feminist film and media studies, edited by one of my very favourite scholars @katherinegroo.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Wish people could see that AI poetry is as fragmentary, uncanny, glitchy, and cliched as AI video

No big deal - I'm just accidentally in passing in a sentence with Anna Kornbluh and Peter Brooks. Genuflecting as they pass by.

Imagine Ezra Pound with a fully monetised podcast

Can’t wait for the bubble to burst

You can't do malaprop, cuckold, or old debauch comedy these days, because of woke

Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...

Syllabus! A unit on home, empire, and the unheimlich. Texts from Victor Séjour, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Marcus Clarke, Rabindranath Tagore, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more ...

Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.