I regret to inform all of you that in 1992 Nabisco put out a SnackWell's crewneck sweatshirt that is just pure 🔥

THE SIMPSONS KONAMI 1991 ARCADE

THE BULLPEN CAUGHT OZUNA'S HR BALL WITH A CONE!

in Ken Russell news that has nothing to do with The Devils: Old Battersea House is for sale - www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

hoping to finish a few books I've started over the past month. I tend to have books of different enough genres going at once (so I don't cross wires), but it would be nice to thin the stack to make room for some new stuff.

submitted final grades. A semester from hell to remember!

I have finally, after fits and starts, finished Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas. Pretty far outside my usual interests, but easily one of the most astonishing books I've ever read.

gorgeous day today, the coveted 70/50 split

my @dukepress.bsky.social sale haul!

Mickey's Safety Club Playground Fun (1989) : 35s

looks cool, but plot not an issue in a world with single-payer healthcare!

Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes, & Strategies, Volume 1 : 1353s

MAPS/SIMCITY.GIF

I can't wait for this semester to be over, for many reasons. Among them, I have several small projects I want to start and I really can't get going until my time opens up.

Monster art from DOS RPG Escape From Hell, which appropriately enough looks sick as hell.

Theodore Sturgeon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sturge... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [uncredited], Gray Morrow, Herbert H Pagani and Željko Pahek):

i just realized it's possible to search the elvis setlist database by jumpsuit & that there were so many jumpsuits cataloged that they can't fit into 4 screenshots. bowing to the king freaks! www.elvisconcerts.com/concerts/dbs...

Virtual Boy ad (1995) #retro #art #gaming #VirtualBoy

while I await the all-clear on Canvas coming back, I engage my favorite part of being an academic: pulling books from the stacks for a piece of writing I'm about to start!

Paramount/Skydance purchase of Warner closes and first action is to cancel circulation of The Devils 4k restoration

amazing stuff in here like "Taking Back Sunday's Taking Back Bacon Burger Fries"

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

It's National Cartoonist Day, evidently. Well, here's baseball's first cartoon litho, by William T. Crane, from 1859: A Comprehensive View of Base Ball. One example survives at the Library of Congress.

Telegenics Video Wallpaper One Ambient : 1385s

watching CARNIVAL OF SOULS for the first time since, believe it or not, @brfaucette.bsky.social let me watch his Criterion DVD at his house in 2007! (was in Lawrence nearly 19 years ago for my first Literature/Film Association conference).

have only managed to watch a handful so far, but these Jean Rollin releases from Indicator are top-notch

the more you look at it, the funnier it gets

Pirates won just now in a blowout and this bit of trivia certainly helped - www.mlb.com/news/reds-wa...

finally opened and have tried Oreo: Cookie Dough (picked up a few months ago, I guess). Decent enough simulacrum, but too sweet for my taste. It is really difficult to beat the "balance" of the baseline Oreo.

chuffed that I found a bargain-priced copy of this book earlier today - www.upress.umn.edu/978081664692...

off the dome: Monty P's Flying C. The Prisoner (orig) The Simpsons Mad Men Halt and Catch Fire Lodge 49 The Birthday Boys Peep Show Snuff Box Key and Peele Comedy Bang! Bang! The Twilight Zone (orig) Night Flight (in its multihour form) Monitor/Omnibus Nairn's Journeys some unconventional for US

The great thing about working in the same space as the Video Game History Foundation is that sometimes @philsalv.bsky.social comes running over to your desk because he found Squaresoft's 1993 Christmas card

SCI_FI/SPACE.GIF

today is my last sort-day-off until all final grades are posted. Marking this as the beginning of two solid weeks of grading. Hitting the ground running tomorrow with some ambitious goals. Expect to fully lose my mind at some point.

summer break starts pretty soon (not soon enough)! Here are some things I'd like to try to watch to grind down my physical queue. (non-feature film stuff)

about to start this big dog

Our Spring sale starts today! Save 40% on in-stock books & journal issues, and save 50% if your order totals $100 or more. Use coupon SPRING26. buff.ly/fPGFs72

Marked For Death (1990) TV Spot : 23s

summer break starts pretty soon (not soon enough)! Here are some things I'd like to try to watch to grind down my physical queue. (non-feature film stuff)