An AAUP webinar exploring the importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional standards and examining threats a politicized accreditation system poses to academic freedom. October 6 at 7pm www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Writing the phrase "reading across Sondheim's oeuvre" but misspelling it as "oeurve" really undercuts any pretensions I may have felt. Urve. 🤣

Speaking from firsthand experience, you can also expect compliments at the farmers market, at the Starbucks, and waiting in line for merch at PAX.

I'm starting a new research project and if you happen to know anyone who skated in any traveling ice show -- such as the Ice Capades, the Ice Follies, Holidays on Ice, etc -- and they would be willing to be interviewed by yours truly, send me a DM :)

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

This is a very long shot but does anyone know anything about the waterproof/water resistant qualities of silk, or treatments to make silk waterproof in the early 20th century? (perhaps including a very tight weave, or coating it somehow?) Got a source? TIA! #academicSky #TextileHashtagWhatIs

I am so excited, aka slightly terrified, to teach this in my Intro to Literary Studies class in a couple of weeks.

I don't know this one at all! Will listen to it tomorrow, for sure.

Ok, did "I'm on a Boat." Do not have the breath control, but a middle-aged lady swearing so extensively is a crowd pleaser.

Elvis+Suede=a very special kind of trashy glam

Eff yes! Many "woo!"s from me.

Used to do"Free Falling" from time to time myself. RIP Tom Petty.

One thing about karaoke in Opelika, Alabama is someone is going to tear it up on "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"

Kick. Ass.

High degree of difficulty but typically a lot of audience buy-in

Please consider this an invitation to post your go-to karaoke song.

First: Glenn Campbell. Only in tune for the second verse, but very in tune with the vibe of the bar.

Public karaoke, i.e. not in a booth. I've put "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "I'm on a Boat" in the queue. Which one will drop first?

Can I get some kudos for our kiddo?

NYC and theater history folks, please check out this history of San Juan Hill's importance as an entertainment district: www.lincolncenter.org/feature/lega...

Okay, I think I have my final list for this. Thank you to everyone who commented on the original post. I'm still open to new suggestions! Here they are in chronological order: 1. Pierrette's Escapades (Alice Guy, 1900) 2. The Dumb Girl of Portici (Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, 1916)

Oh wow, this is exciting news!

Any early C20 lit enthusiasts happen to know which of Stella Gibbons' short stories published in the Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm collection was originally published in Good Housekeeping magazine? I've lost a reference! 🙏

Bananadamantium

Essential resource. Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.

I almost only listen to leftist baseball podcasts but that’s just me. So many thanks to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for letting me talk about Downtime. Alix is the best reader and not surprisingly the best here too. Book is available from @columbiaup.bsky.social.

5 small pleasures: Cat putting its paw on you, asking for pets First time ordering pumpkin whatever when it comes back in season Bookmarking a song or book or movie on social media Figuring out the exact word to describe something Ghost signs on the sides of old buildings

We need more better lefty propaganda, y'all. It doesn't all have to be at the world-historic Zohran level. Just get those messages out there in the world where people will see them. Look at the work of Amos Kennedy for example. www.instagram.com/p/C-LQbbKpRT...

Request - who would be a good guest speaker for my class who can talk about New York's congestion pricing? Maybe even two different folks if needed, one more on the technical aspects and stats, and one who can speak to the policy and politics side. Please let me know if this is you & please share!

Jesus, did not anticipate that the first David Lodge campus novel would include a chartered US flight to the UK for abortions.

Anyone with access to Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology able to send me a PDF of this "Plantations" bibliography? www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

a cat will suck the air from a babe's lungs. a dog will fill them with dog air, like a bellows

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Aca-Vampy/Gaming-Colleagues. I’ve got a collection on “Selling the Vampire” and I need an abstract on the use of vampires in marketing games, or how vampires in games are used to promote/market vampires in other media If interested contact me at: [email protected]

Books in the course desc for that A&M class. I recognize titles from the most-challenged list. Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas Blackout, Dhonielle Clayton et al. The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo All Boys Aren’t Blue, George Johnson Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi [...]

@pjmaciak.bsky.social does this ring any bells?

Age verification: my first computer had a cassette tape drive.

Holy moly, is that what that is?

Do I know anyone who's taught 17776? I put it on my syllabus but am now rethinking. www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

So happy to see this manifesto think through how American Expressionist characters might anticipate and inspire the non-realistic approach to being a self within a system in games!

A peaceful Sunday soundtracked by a 12yo yelling at Silksong...

Hoping for a Mon Mothma line of business robes and mother-of-the-bride gowns.

Did not know that Kate Bush had a song that's mostly her singing the digits of pi share.google/ZgfA7ed2YtiV...

I’m seeing sorority discourse on the TL so of course I have to shout out @elizabethbboyd1.bsky.social’s Southern Beauty www.ugapress.org/978082036232...

I think this ad sounds nightmarish, but I also want a poet to take this job and sabotage as thoroughly as possible: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED. Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot. David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...

I just got word that the faculty senate of my university is now dissolved and no longer exists, in compliance with the new Texas law. Yikes! I thought my university would somehow find a loophole, or an exemption, but it's official. It's a sad day for shared governance and checks and balances.

To Chicago comrades & anyone else facing possible federal occupation: The National Guard is standing around for photo ops. DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, are working with local police to terrorize & kidnap our neighbors. Organize accordingly.

So what is it that just makes rivals-to-lovers/enemies-to-lovers just not work for me? My hatred of confrontation? My distaste for cocky bad boys? Or my assumption that someone's behavior toward you correlates directly with their feelings about you?

Totally forgot about this great line in Billy Bragg's "Accident Waiting to Happen": riffing on the Kinks' "dedicated follower of fashion" by calling someone a "dedicated swallower of fascism."