I am finishing incorporation of the hand edits on unfinished book 2 of a planned 3, and getting ready for new writing. Book 2 currently stands at just over 89k words of an estimated 115ish. For my two or three followers, just know this is now a writing account for the summer.

Bringing the classics to younger generations tonight. So refreshing how pro-immigration / pro-diversity this film is. When people say films / shows were not political when they were younger (Star Trek!), it just means they were not wise enough to see it at the time and have become no wiser since.

Just got a promotion to "Principal Senior Instructor," which quite frankly is the most absurd title ever.

The end of "Pump Up the Volume" perfectly illustrates the central failing of Gen-X. Having established a vibrant, supportive, town-wide community, everyone retreats to their basement to form their own with them in the center. A generation of talkers with no listeners. In this essay I will...

Looking like my computer which has been limping along for some time may actually be dead. From what I have heard, now is a sub optimal time for buying a new one?

Evangelicals beautifully executing their version of creating the Torment Nexus.

I will say this for the NBA’s strategy of scattering its games across a bunch of streaming services; it has really helped me with my intention to watch more playoff hockey.

Is there a word for that something that Harrison Ford has and really no one else?

In the Star Wars universe, where are the Dude Lebowski force users? I do not mean the Grey Jedi (at least it's an ethos). I mean the ones who use force suggestion to get the cashier to throw in some free Jack Links with their Cheetos and Mtn. Dew Code Red.

Grading quizzes and so put on NBA basketball on in the background. I get a team with Harden on it on the playoffs. I guess some things just do not change.

Branching out from brutally roasting individuals, he is now on to efficiently roasting whole countries.

Look, this is small potatoes compared to the horrors and the crimes and the grifts of this administration, but it is hard to find a better example of the rhetorical question "If they were actively trying to weaken our country, what would they be doing differently?"

Oh my god. Late to this news about one of my favorite bands of all time. And still touring. No idea even what to say. www.tiktok.com/@indigogirls...

Every Voyager story makes me tear up. Those late Gen-X probes are younger than me by mere months, and I have been following their journey my whole life from the 80s era "Grand Tour" book on. Amazed we still have both. When the last one goes dark, I am not sure how I will cope.

Rewatched this tonight with a friend and I would like to reiterate my original position. There are those who think this film is brilliant and there are those who are wrong.

Morgan Wallen is in town so it is like game day level crowds but with only white people.

Checking and rechecking Bluesky until @alyxvesey.bsky.social spots today’s Madonna discourse.

Me looking for comps. “I mean, mine is kind of like this except this is actually good.”

Love this idea, particularly if the appeals process is a public sartorial critique / roast.

Having a lovely time tonight improving my Bluesky feed by blocking Eric Swalwell defenders.

My kid (12) just went to see a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream (shoutout to the Alabama Shakespeare Project) and is insisting on filling out their survey (as it is coupled with a research project). Would love to see how he skews the data.

I just realized that 1. almost all the people I know who hate “two spaces after the period” are poets and it is because 2. They think in semicolons. Two periods are for the end of a thought; it is irrelevant if you conceive of all sentences as sequenced with an EM dash daisy chain from hell.

This is it. This can be hung around the neck of any of his sycophantic cronies (Vance, Rubio, etc) that try to step into his shoes when he is gone. Just play this on repeat in ads against any who try to run for anything.

My one common experience across all social media (Here, Reddit, Facebook, back when I was on Twitter) is that there is exactly zero correlation between what I think is a banger and what actually gets likes. Honestly, less than zero. Inverse.

Bob making grading challenging.

Tossed headfirst into teen nostalgia with this thread.

There is nothing quite like the adrenaline high of teaching Herrick and then sending students off on Spring Break.

Finished teaching and a million errands early enough to get to my kid’s school 30 min early. Had been looking forward to this time as a peaceful space to edit the manuscript…. which I apparently left at home.

Fatality.

What the actual fuck? 3 F-15s to friendly fire?!? Did someone send the DHS over there with another laser?

Not sure if I have ever gone from a "meh" to a "will watch" this quickly, but this is the kind of precisely calibrated endorsement I am looking for.

Just watched Galatea. Might be the best and funniest play The Alabama Shakespeare Project has put in so far. So good.

Watching friends in the Boomer generation on Facebook have their peers suggest AI (particularly Grok 🤮) for finding information. We are so cooked, y'all.

Lost it at the last one. So good.

I have very few real skills, but I am glad to know that my friends all have me as first on their rolodex for when they need someone to make a midnight airport run.

Alabama sky says “trans rights.”

I do not know if it is my own personal issue or my neurospicyness or just being a human, but I hate looking back on a largely positive social evening and only being able to see my 4 or 5 fuckups. Every retrospective is only mistakes to be carried forever.

I remember back when my kid was 4 hearing his voice from the backseat: "When we get there Dada, don't look at me." You can bet that I hastily adjusted the mirror to see what he had done.

Needed a good cathartic sob tonight so throwing this one on.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

We are watching the Olympics as a family, so somebody let me know when Bad Bunny is on.

“Act Naturally” in both Falllout and Wonder Man shows? That is some interesting overlap.

Talked about Ford’s wild ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore tonight with my awesome Strode Underground reading group students. Or, to be more accurate, for a good portion of the time I listened while they talked which is as it should be. Next up, Roaring Girl.

Will Stancil is the Xander Harris of activism

Bluesky feed choosing violence this morning. @danielwagner.lol

If you are just waking up, this is the thread you are looking for to explain why everyone is talking about busses, trains, kidnapping, and musical ducks. You are welcome.

Kidnapped Musicology Duck is the Rice Truck of Go Home And Be a Family Man

Not a horror person, so I had steered clear of this one, but Sara really wanted to see it so I sat close and used their shoulder to hide my eyes when it got too intense.

Skippy knew what was up.

I have not been to an Applebee's in maybe 30 years. The commercial was horrific and made it look the opposite of appetizing. And yet, somehow, in the dumb food part of my brain, I really want to try the cheese puddle hamburger.