Skritch break

#inclinic "when does your anxiety act up?" "when I have to stand in line at the food bank"

Not shoddy at all though.

Welp.

Interesting choice for Del Toro to style his Victor Frankenstein like Jaz Coleman.

Pursuant to the piece I posted earlier about Nebraska, the Faculty Senate is now considering a no-confidence vote in Rodney Bennett.

I wrote about the University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s recent proposal to cut six academic programs. Campus leaders say they need to close a budget gap. Professors say the process has been opaque and flawed.

Baffling conference-hotel carpet du jour.

“The flipside of nonjudgment is nonaccountability.” Thank you for that truth bolt, conference-panel speaker dude.

Thanks to a “rideshare” company, I’m taking my first trip in a self-driving Tesla, though there is a very pleasant guy behind the wheel THAT HE IS NOT TOUCHING ON I-75.

I wrote a brief appreciation of the late Peter Watkins: davidhering.substack.com/p/peter-watk...

RIP Peter Watkins. Not a super well-known filmmaker in this country, but watch the 53-year-old Punishment Park today and tell me he wasn’t a visionary filmmaker. Culloden and The War Game too.

Is shoegaze the most tedious musical genre? Once you get past a handful of foundational bands, every gotdang one sounds exactly the same.

We still like music, right? This one's for filling that Warpaint-meets-Julee-Cruise-shaped hole in your heart.

Be the change etc.

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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Fall is the time to queue up a nice Debussy and Ravel string quartet doubleheader. But then so is spring. And they sound pretty good in summer too.

The U.S. economy has grown by $20 trillion since 2000 … about $7.7 trillion of that (36% of all the growth in GDP) is spending related to recovering from or preparing for climate disasters per Bloomberg Intelligence #EconSky

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

Some believe that America has lost the ability to innovate, but I just went to Trader Joe’s for the first time in ages, and the whole place was like a giant R&D lab/incubator space for new ways to get in other people’s way and be annoying. If we could just harness that . . . #firstworldproblems

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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How am I supposed to do a webinar not knowing if D’Angelo is really alive or dead?

Giving an authentic apology can be tricky, but it doesn’t have to be. @tvparrot.bsky.social, Principal of TVP Comms, shares with @leegee.bsky.social, Writer for @chronicle.com, about how to fix relationships in meaningful ways in “Building Trust,” a report from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Happy Columbo’s Day

Not enough people are crazy about Klara Lewis imo.

Caught this on streaming. RIYL: folk horror, Wales, field recording, tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage analog sound gear, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, trans coding, mushrooms and moss, Dev Patel

10 horror movies to get to know me Island of Lost Souls Cat People I Married a Monster From Outer Space Onibaba The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Thing From Beyond Pulse A Dark Song When Evil Lurks

A disgusting fact about me: I will happily sip room-temp black coffee all morning.

I’m getting on a plane for the first time in about a year, and there’s a guy in line wearing a particulate respirator mask—the kind with the screw-in filters on the side. But he also has a scruffy little beard, which means his mask isn’t really sealing to his skin. America: So Close™️

@cantb.bsky.social and I shared some thoughts/concerns about the proposed higher education compact in this @chronicle.com piece. But I still think that quite a few red-state publics would sign up, if for no other reason than state legislatures would expect it.

I looked at the potential financial implications for colleges if they sign Trump’s compact.

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My latest: AI is all over college classrooms, for good or ill, but what about admin offices? It’s making inroads there, too, though what effects it will have remain to be seen.

Whether or not you recline your plane or train seat is a moral test.

I’m working on a column about faculty motivation in the current landscape where -new jobs can be scarce -academic publishing is messy -grants are being axed -merit pay is spotty If you have perspective and experience you’d care to share, please let me know. (1/2)

Yet another moment when I find myself thinking, Are you dead? Cause you look dead. (He is not dead, thankfully.)

i was sitting in a really dull corporate event for hours and hallucinated that somebody coined the portmanteau "innobition" (as in innovation + ambition)

All the President’s Men, Downhill Racer, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, This Property Is Condemned, All Is Lost

The first neo-altweekly? 👀

The most unrealistic thing about the Superman movie is all the characters reading hard copies of daily newspapers.

An unmaker space, if you will.

The data wizards @chronicle.com recently updated our faculty-pay transparency tool to draw on 2025 data. Worth checking out to see how #HigherEd salaries are mediated by local cost of living.

I'll be at Idle Hour in Baltimore on Sept 24th with @leegee.bsky.social for a Selector Series event from @essentialpod.bsky.social. We'll be listening to Think by Lyn Collins, a great album produced by James Brown that opens with the Rosetta Stone of Baltimore club music. dice.fm/event/oewb8m...

Well, that certainly is A Take.

A Baltimore haiku: Silver Ford, hazards blink Beside an oil-dotted space No one at the wheel.

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Heraclitus du jour: “Extinguish arrogance before a fire” ὕβριν χρὴ σβεννύναι μᾶλλον ἢ πυρκαϊήν. No, this isn't a subskeet, I don't know what you're talking about.

From Tough Breaks, @alshipley.bsky.social’s revelatory new book about Baltimore club music.