Shadow Ticket (2024)

Happy New Year, everyone. Here's a plug for a dear friend's publication. Hilary Wyss's Cambridge Element on the London Foundling Hospital is just out, and you can download a copy for free until Jan. 15, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... It's fantastic work!

Starting off the new year with a pangram that the 🐝 won't take, I see.

How I'm entering 2026

Happy New Year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwi...

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

Thank you! I hate the Hero's Journey and love teaching Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars because of the vicious way the play deconstructs it.

Favorite books read in 2025: Grand Hotel, Vicki Baum Orbital, Samantha Harvey Metallic Realms, Lincoln Michel Flashlight, Susan Choi Vera, or Faith, Gary Shteyngart The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor Lavalle/"The Horror at Red Hook," H.P. Lovecraft Early Havoc, June Havoc Edith Holler, Edward Carey

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from December 31, 1905.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Pilot (not Baffer Meal) previewing on Cartoon Network, one of ATHF animators, Matthew Jenkins, was commissioned to draw C Martin Croker in the ATHF artstyle and I think y'all need to see it www.instagram.com/p/DS3XA48joK...

Check out this awesome Kahlo-inspired pet portrait, painted by my husband's internet bestie in CDMX!

Buying tickets for 13 Going on 30 behind Sarah Vowell

Homemade ham salad is good on these rosemary crackers, but I should have saved my exclamation point for brie and cranberry on same.

Ham salad!

This week’s #EditorsPick, from Senior Acquisitions Editor Richard Carlin, is a great read to enjoy over the holidays as you explore the life and times of the country’s most celebrated performing seal. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/57kyfvv7 #HolidayReading #AmericanHistory #NYHistory #PerformingArts

Dance marathon contestant, oh no

Because it's a good day, a thread of images from fantastic show I saw last week: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. First up, Crite's luminous "Streetcar Madonna," which resonates with incoming NYC mayor's pledge to make transit more affordable

Going to bed but hope to be back up in time for Family Matters and the California raisins. Stream below is now on Muppet Family Christmas, check it out if you need some holiday cheer

And then Bing and his wife sing "Side by Side" from Company! @flemishdog.bsky.social , your stream has been amazing.

TIL: David Bowie sings "Heroes" and does mime on Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas Special (where they sing "Little Drummer Boy/ Peace on Earth."

Watched the best Christmas Eve movie, this time with our 12yo! First time I saw it was in the theater when it came out. Gremlins is maybe not an ideal movie for the 7-year-old I was, but holy crap Gizmo driving that Barbie convertible was iconic.

Really enjoying the Bad Religion Christmas album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVLF... Peace and light to you, my internet friends.

your occasional reminder that, in Singin' in the Rain, when Debbie Reynolds provides Jean Hagen's speaking voice, the speaking voice you hear is Jean Hagen's, and when Debbie Reynolds provides Jean Hagen's singing voice, the singing voice you hear is Betty Noyes's

Finally traced and articulated the history of the Hippodrome throughout the 1930s and connected it to fascist and anti-fascist protests of the decade.

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

Any other academic women who only have room in their brain to maintain extended family ties when the semester is done?

2025 Nostalgia Ride on 1930s subway train cars! 🎅🎄☃️

Wow, starting the 🐝 with two good words that got denied. :(

Until the mid-1970’s, a man could not be convicted of rape in New York State based solely on the testimony of the woman he raped. A second witness was required because the female rape victim was deemed unreliable. Feminism has not failed women.

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It is a real jump scare to click through and realize what you’re looking at without knowing in advance. Viewer discretion extremely advised.

I'm honestly in the mood to permanently hide posts with the word "debate."

Trying to imagine the person who's out there dreaming of size S, vaguely Christmassy, Scarface-themed pajama pants.

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

⚠️ ALERT ALERT ALERT THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR HAS ARRIVED ⚠️

Tough to choose between Sinners, the new Gary Shteyngart novel, and the Chair Company. But I haven't seen the novel listed yet, so I'll go for that. Vera, or Faith is delightful. A little dystopian but through the POV of a half-Korean, half-Jewish Harriet the Spy.

Hey academic humans, if you have a new book in film and media studies and want to do a podcast interview for the New Books Network about it, DM me. Or if you want someone in your discipline to interview you, fill out this form: newbooksnetwork.com/authors

Did anyone have a super long-running show or event in your town, maybe ones that got listed in your alternative weekly all the time, that you always wanted to go see and never did? For me, that show was Co-Ed Prison Sluts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Ed_P...

Great to read abt @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social's inspirational & transformative work! X cla.auburn.edu/news/article...

Rob Reiner's incredible trailer for "This Is Spinal Tap" - boingboing.net/2025/03/19/t...

It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through. Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!

Time from reading this quote to looking up the title on Cloud Library to starting the book was <1 min, so the internet can still work.

Yes, I felt this too! But it's appropriate in the contemporary moment with so many adult converts to Catholicism who seem like they really want "regular" (Protestant) Christianity with better aesthetics and more legitimacy.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Watched Wake Up Dead Man, definitely curious to hear what my (lapsed, cultural, and current) Catholic mutual think of it.

So once every year or two I think that someone should write a biography of Gwen Verdon. Tonight I decided that it ought to be titled A World Full of Yes.

Shout! Studios has the whole Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas on their channel; it's the version with the intro by Kermit the Frog. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDH...