Peoria, IL- tornado warning. Seek shelter

I'm thinking it's an early, slangy equivalent to "tourist trap," but I don't want to miss something obvious.

I'm writing about Billy Rose's nightclubs. Newspaper reviews often call them "mujik traps" or that he's the "king of the mujik trap." I see that "mujik" means "peasant" in Russian, more or less, but I cannot find anything that gives the source for this idea of a mujik trap. Any ideas?

unironically WPA we can just have a writers job program if we want to. one of the products of the last time we did it was the slave narratives

Tenure-track faculty at U. Illinois Springfield have been on strike for fair pay with real raises for 13 days. Click the card to email the Chancellor and demand she settle a fair contract NOW! #AcademicSky #UnionYes

A lot of people got excommunicated for saying they were holier than the Pope, but not me, I'm built different. I'm too holy to do that. Maybe even holier than the Pope.

Tonight I give a full-throated "Go Dawgs."

Well it doesn't look like he's on BlueSky much, but @harveyyoungbu.bsky.social got a Guggenheim! Hooray! Congrats! Go theater and performance studies!

Shit, What the Constitution Means to Me is going to make me cry. Talking about why this play now on Thursday when she's talking about section 1 of amendment 14.

39: Hollywood’s Others @fuscowrites.bsky.social brilliant counter narrative about classical Hollywood studios and fan magazines and the roles they played in dealing with child stars, people of color, disabled characters and celebrity scandals is a must read for film scholars. 1/2 #booksky

If my starter was a Wordle in 2021, should I pick another? Strategy and letter spread vs. that sweet possibility of Wordle in 1...

In this thread I describe the arguments of the book—10 years in the making!

So I make sliders on Hawaiian rolls with pastrami that are Reuben-adjacent, and last night instead of sauerkraut I put kimchi on them! So good.

Anyone happen to have contact info for the permissions manager at @fantagraphics.bsky.social ? I'm trying to track down the rights for some comics from the 1930s that they used in one of their issues and striking out left and right. Thanks!

Can someone please let me know if there's a write-up of the weird, floating transformer thing over the president's head in the weird AI slop picture? Or like if someone writes a poem about it? It is so weird in a way I want to deconstruct or hear more about.

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

Wow, "I've Never Been to Me" is a bad song.

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie! Thanks whoever on here said watch it without finding out much about the story.

Anyone happen to have contact info for the permissions manager at @fantagraphics.bsky.social ? I'm trying to track down the rights for some comics from the 1930s that they used in one of their issues and striking out left and right. Thanks!

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of going through some of the boardgames in the Library of Congress collection. We found a game not in @boardgamegeek.com: The Diligent Girl as Lady of the House. More below, but: Can anyone help me figure out the publisher? Can't make a BGG entry without one! 1/

There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing. Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt

Car historians and enthusiasts, please help David if you can.

Calming your nervous system and getting off email to focus on your writing, a syllabus: (Please share any readings and tactics that have worked, esp if you also have admin responsibilities!)

Alabama profs, state senate is debating Hb580. Live-stream www.al.com/politics/pag...

Our representatives are listening! The last vote on HB580 passed only narrowly (9 aye and 7 nay). If you live in Alabama, take a second to write to your senator and urge them to vote NO on HB580

Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access). The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So burnt out, want to get to summer and writing so badly, but I am talking about Heroes of the Fourth Turning with my English and English Education majors this week. That is exciting.

Where Life Is Better: An Unsentimental American Journey by James Rorty: "I encountered nothing in 15,000 miles of travel that disgusted and appalled me so much as this American addiction to makebelieve. Apparently, not even empty bellies can cure it." [...]

I did not expect to be jump scared by a Charles Barkley blimp during my commute. 😂

When husband does not have a problem and merely wants to make sure you're stocked with seltzer

Cher turned down "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" because she was worried it would be "too controversial"? "Half Breed" and "Dark Lady" Cher? I don't know if I buy that story, Casey Kasem. But I'm glad Vicki Lawrence got to sing it because she sounds more southern. #AT40

Toomers Corner in Auburn, Alabama #NoKings

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

I could legit teach this and WCW's In the American Grain. But also wanted to flag in case any other modernist parody nerds needed a fun thread to check out.

I taught this weird, wonderful something in my Intro to Lit class in the fall. If you haven't read it, please do.

Tough day, but I did have a student articulate a key analytical question about the plays we're reading: what is the discomfort for? Knowing it's there and that it has a potential purpose that we could discuss made me so happy.

Hey everybody, do you want some nightmare fuel?

I came home so peopled out that I had to go stare at the bedroom ceiling. Do you know what nourished me and refilled my cup? Watching C.H.U.D.

I came home so peopled out that I had to go stare at the bedroom ceiling. Do you know what nourished me and refilled my cup? Watching C.H.U.D.

Hey folks who listen to the @500songspodcast.bsky.social, are the episodes about songs/bands you're not as into just at good? Because the 2 about the Who are marvelous, but that's also a band I love. Are you completist or do you pick and choose?

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

My literal kiddo thought of a red giant star and pictured a big, red orb.

"Soft creamy chunklets"

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

I'm listening to today's #AT40 later than broadcast, but I wanted to make sure and share a true banger on the charts this week back in 1975: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHDg...

Man I really like the live-action One Piece.

Dialog box seeming a little too ominous, definitive, and on the nose for my liking.

Bored! at the In-laws'

Happened upon this in The New School's Digital Collections: in 1970 Parsons students voted to suspend classes and instead organize an exhibition titled "My God. We're Losing a Great Country." They invited Nixon. Also: check out that letterhead! digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/De...

Jan Hammer on TOP OF THE POPS And there's a keytar solo You're welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFZV...