yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 8. opening act: florry comedian: jon benjamin mix CDR by dj trouble post show DJ: vee vee benefitting new york immigration coalition

The @trylon.org is screening The Last Days of Disco on Jan 8, with director Whit Stillman in attendance for a Q&A (attn @chrissteller.bsky.social — possibly relevant to your interests)

this is one of the greatest losses job precarity forces on adjuncts and short-contract faculty, or at least did on me: the sharp immediacy of trying to find work comes to stand in the way of Knowing that Reading is the Work

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 6. opening act: jeff tweedy comedian: jo firestone mix CDR by georgia post show DJ: miss christina ginger benefitting mary mitchell family & youth center

After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering. MN deserves the same action. www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...

Hey #CrimSky #Criminology #AcademicSky - It would be great to get a book review or two from within criminology, particularly #prison people. #Sound and #Detention is a cross disciplinary edited volume with sound studies and #Musicology as well as criminology: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...

federal hiring: not great

This job post is almost certainly meant for pre-selected people (only open 4 days). Request below is likely a code for who to hire. Job may be to use AI to target political opponents with IRS. www.usajobs.gov/job/852446200 @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @skiles.blue

Looking back on the gorgeous designs that were selected for our 60th annual Book, Jacket & Journal Show this year! Peruse the online catalog: design.up.hcommons.o... And check out the traveling exhibition schedule: design.up.hcommons.o...

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate crickets.#JacobinDay More information on crickets

"you'll regret not humouring me" is a top-tier line

From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

it’s St Lucy’s day, so you know what that means — time for the best John Donne poem

Grateful for this review of the #scoresproject by @markleahy.bsky.social. Most of my colleagues have books of their own, but for me it’s a very wild new experience to have readers of the thing you worked on for a long time. #fluxus #booksky #academicsky leonardo.info/review/2025/...

Guess I am a Maine Poet now? I was very giddy to be included in the second volume of the Midcoast Poetry Journal. #poetry #poem #writingcommunity #maine

Jim Steinman wrote for Meatloaf extensively (including "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," and Meatloaf wanted to record "It's All Coming Back" but Jim told him it was a song from the perspective of the tortured Catherine in "Wuthering Heights" and said no. Here's a pic of Steinman

Need advice on the audibility of English words in noisy wartime conditions, ca. 1942-43? Better call Abrams at the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Lab.

For a 1945 recording session for RCA that yielded 6 sides, Leonard Feather, as leader and producer, paid himself $180. Duke only got $90. Billy Strayhorn got $80. Johnny Hodges, $150. Red Norvo a paltry $50. Louis Armstrong did OK though: $300. Archival research is fun. Tax documents are great.

"There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest, thread of our frail plant..." -Leigh Hunt, "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" (The author of #ParadiseLost was born #OnThisDay in 1608.) (More on Hunt's hair collection: sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...) #poetry 🗃️📜

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Interlibrary loan is also being inundated everywhere it sounds like. Requests for scans of items that don't exist. Someone has to search for them and respond.

Thank you for this review!

Brilliant mondegreen from the audiobook version of Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts" What I heard: "and a debonair butch auntie." The text reads: "and a debonair butch on T." I suppose it's a willful mishearing on my part. RIP my real life butch auntie Olivia.

Steve Cropper, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who helped form the “Memphis soul” sound on Stax Records, has died at the age of 84. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Sign me up for THIS return to philology!!!

Sarah Anne Johnson, WWSOSR (detail) (pigment print with oil paint, 2020) 📸🎨

Thinking today about Immanuel Kant’s “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795). A 🧵. Quotes are from the Cambridge edition: doi.org/10.1017/CBO9... 1/

Mayor Jacob Frey said the city is responding to “a number of credible reports” that as many as 100 federal agents will be deployed to the Twin Cities “with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community."

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled," 1991, originally appeared on a series of billboards throughout NYC. Gonzalez-Torres, a wildly inventive and influential artist, died of AIDS in 1996, age 38. #WorldAIDSDay

Continuing to feel good about this and to think about what it says about our project. To reviewers out there: thank you for doing what you do.

Anthony Braxton changed my life and rewired my brain when I took three classes with him as an undergrad. There's a whole legion of us out there, undercover Braxtonites throughout the music/industry ecosystem. If you don't know his work, maybe you should.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Whose cat is this? In this video from Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2001-2), Richard Move reenacts an interview with the choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Is the cat impersonating Rainer's cat? #scoresproject #academicsky #experimentalnotation www.getty.edu/publications...

Stahl house is for sale in case you are in need of an architecturally significant property in the Hollywood Hills: www.latimes.com/travel/story...

Philip Glass had no business going so hard on the score of this animation. 10/10 🎼🎶

Oregon Public Media did a really beautiful mini doc about the first descent of the undammed Klamath River that is worth a watch youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4?...

Fuck yeah, Libraries! Court issues permanent injunction in the State of Rhode Island v. Trump, preventing the dismantling and defunding of the Institute for Museum and Library Service. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...

I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!

This is an incredible photo.

First review of the #scoresproject, by Nicole Kaack for the Brooklyn Rail. “The Scores Project explodes the research method to its component parts, making visible the scholarly labor of archival sleuthing” #academicsky #booksky #fluxus #arthistory #archivesky brooklynrail.org/2025/11/art_...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

First review of the #scoresproject, by Nicole Kaack for the Brooklyn Rail. “The Scores Project explodes the research method to its component parts, making visible the scholarly labor of archival sleuthing” #academicsky #booksky #fluxus #arthistory #archivesky brooklynrail.org/2025/11/art_...

With in-depth research from sign painter Morgane Côme and dozens of rare alphabet plates, it’s an essential reference and delightful guide to the fashionable letterforms that defined the classic French streetscape.

Announcing Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France. #SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres...

Japanese twitter taking the Suica penguin news very normally

Bloody hell the line-up for issue 2 of The Little Review is quite something. www.thelittlereview.co.uk/shop/p/pre-o...

Interesting that none of the past few years’ discussions of close reading really circled back to this banger: raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/E...

brb ripping up my degree