Someone should write about traveling theater troupes on screen: from Naruse to Bergman to SHAKESPEARE-WALLAH to STATION ELEVEN.

Who wants to join my new doo-wop band, Anxious Frank and the Self Soothers?

"Dear colleague. I look forward to responding to your email as soon as you have rephrased it more respectfully."

Happy User Agreement Update season to all!

Puritan Valentine's Day card

The direct link between engorged petrostates and enlarged prostates.

Manstream media

Vale Harold. You've finally gone to reunite with Maude.

Fantastic to see @uminnpress.bsky.social putting this essential collection of writings back in print, by Lulu herself. www.upress.umn.edu/978081663731...

Come ghost with me! event.newschool.edu/booktalkdomp...

I should probably get a mnemonic tattoo on my wrist that simply says: "musn't grumble."

Looks like I need to add a new epilogue.

"Exercises for Men" . . . in Nancy Henley, "Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Non-Verbal Communication" (1977)

Dasein within reach

" . . . and now, smiling and waving - heading up the delegation from New Jersey - is the traditional Parade of the Goomahs . . ."

I wasn't expecting this blood-soaked 20 minute homage to Dario Argento and giallo - featuring the surviving members of Goblin - during this Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

2026 . . . are you ok?

#SadPlanets www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

"Show Cat": Mediated Pedagogy, Domestic Exposure, and Vicarious Creaturely Intimacy

"It’s not a documentary, Melania said. 'It is a creative experience that offers perspectives, insights, and moments.'" Looks like I have new go-to language for all future course descriptions and/or book proposals.

Thanks to the super-silly new movie ANACONDA, we have a new phrase: "Buffalo sober." In honor of the plucky town in upstate New York, Buffalo sober means only beer and wine.

Lana del Reification

Forget the glistening hard-bodies of HEATED RIVALRY. The most compelling gay couple on TV right now are Banjo & Ro - two Australians trying to renovate a derelict grand hotel on an island off an island off the coast of Scotland with practically no money.

Mamdani introduces new eco-friendly system to provide steam heat to the city.

Awoke from a dream in which my employer announced it would fire any faculty member who used the word "episteme" in a published work.

"CDC announces new vaccines are 100% ranch dressing."

Apparently there is an oversupply.

An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine. psyche.co/ideas/why-be...

There is surely a German word for that feeling when you impatiently order a dozen books or so, but then lose all enthusiasm for the chosen titles as soon as they arrive.

It's only a terrible time to be alive if you care about stuff.

In case you need yet more evidence that we're living in a Robocop timeline.

Maybe it's time to finally buy this

Finally finished decorating my man cave.

boomers: dig me! gen x: free me! millennials: see me! gen z: diagnose me!

If anyone feels like buying me a belated xmas present. www.abebooks.com/Collected-St...

What's your favorite show-within-a-show? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZLk...

Going in to 2026 thusly . . .

Speaking of music, how many of you can remember buying some kind of book or magazine that came with a flexi disk? And if so, what was it?

As this year comes to an end, we're looking back at some of our 2025 highlights. Featured in Best Books round-ups in The Spectator and Financial Times, and reviewed in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and New Scientist, these books are not to be missed! See more: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...

One of my resolutions for 2026: Listen to more albums from start to finish, and try to chill on the whole random shuffle button thing.

Happy Mamdani Day for those who celebrate. Looking out my window and I can already see Wall Street Types losing their top hats, chased down the street by gangs of singing orphaned immigrant children, shepherded gently into adequately heated re-education centers run by implacable polyfaith queers.

I asked ChatGPT what it has learned about humans from all these billions of interactions. The answer was pretty wild. open.substack.com/pub/dominicp...

Favourite books of 2025. @dominicpettman.bsky.social and Eugene Thacker's "Sad Planets" was a revelation, "More and More and More" should be compulsory reading to understand our energy systems, @dayofthemutants.bsky.social's "More Bugs" really lingered with me, and I love every Sofia Samatar book.