Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Ohtani starts warming up for first pitch of game 4 in like 90 minutes

Maybe this game will go on long enough for Treinen to become a leftist.

Getting ready to teach The Great Gatsby tomorrow, and it turns out I would have had time to watch Gatz instead. #niche

Chatting up my book with Kristen Whissel, next week at UC Berkeley's Humanities Center. townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/downt...

Waiting for back-to-back Fox reports on "Democrats are the real Nazis" and "Woke Soros mob attacks veteran for being history buff"

As a middle-aged man not psychopathically committed to his job I found that Scherzer performance very hard to identify with.

Bari Weiss and CBS are going to ask the real question here: aren't some Young Democrats still signing-off emails with their preferred pronouns?

The only way fans in Canada could look sadder right now is if they really were the 51st state.

Finally had time to listen to this excellent interview with Mark Goble about his new book, DOWNTIME: THE 20TH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, with Alix Beeston on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/333dere5. @goblemark.bsky.social @alixbeeston.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

I would boycott Salesforce if I knew what they did. But that stupid tower can sure get fucked.

Dodgers’ most ICE-coded chud needs a recent immigrant to rescue the team. Again.

I respect that James Gunn, even when he’s going full dorky anti-fascism in this season of Peacemaker, can’t resist a good sight gag. If only I didn’t think that Nazi crocs would probably sell pretty well in our dimension right now.

Treinen in for the 9th because Dodgers don't need a "save," they need a warfighter who can kill a five-run lead and break things.

William Friedkin directed the Exorcist and this suckling pig aspic thing from Sorcerer is clearly the most terrifying shot of his career.

Tomorrow! Pynchon & PTA! Join Peter Coviello as he discusses his book VINELAND REREAD w/ John Plotz and Ethan Warren after a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's *One Battle After Another* at West Newton Cinema. tinyurl.com/3n2kcvzj @columbiaup.bsky.social

Now that the Wall Street Journal has reviewed my book on slow motion, do you think I can pitch them an op-ed on Modern Monetary Theory? Serious thanks to @columbiaup.bsky.social and @philipleventhal.bsky.social for making this happen. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Dude I teach Faulkner almost every semester. Does that count?

Now that the Wall Street Journal has reviewed my book on slow motion, do you think I can pitch them an op-ed on Modern Monetary Theory? Serious thanks to @columbiaup.bsky.social and @philipleventhal.bsky.social for making this happen. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Reposting for the “I have to care about Jimmy Kimmel for why now?” rush…

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.

I did a Q&A about Downtime and slow motion, which certainly is one way to end up talking about The Great Beauty and The Matrix in the same sentence. My thanks to @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social. Downtime is out now from @columbiaup.bsky.social Available here: cup.columbia.edu/book/downtim...

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary Gary with the Wind

I don't think Omid Bagherli is on bluesky (then again, why am I on bluesky?) but I'm grateful for this review and particularly happy to see it in ASAP/Review since a lot of this book happened because of friends and colleagues at @asapartsnow.bsky.social asapjournal.com/review/slow-...

I don't think Omid Bagherli is on bluesky (then again, why am I on bluesky?) but I'm grateful for this review and particularly happy to see it in ASAP/Review since a lot of this book happened because of friends and colleagues at @asapartsnow.bsky.social asapjournal.com/review/slow-...

Now start selling crack again you woke cowards

So many reasons to dislike Trump but especially hate that he has me rooting for the Federal Reserve

Trump take my fancy vermouth

Chickenshit centrism is how we got in this mess. Brave Dems need to make JD Vance their nominee in ‘28.

Allison Wiliams in the biopic when?

I❤️LA. July, 2025. #NikonFA #IlfordHP5 #filmphotography

I❤️LA. July, 2025. #NikonFA #IlfordHP5 #filmphotography

Summer movies mean slow motion and slow motion means…

The Hollywood Conference affirmed my love of small, thematic conferences. I saw so many inspiring talks, and there was enough downtime to have actual conversations with people I have known for a long time and with people I just met here. I hope there will be a second iteration. #HWC2025

I think this is Justin Theroux’s only line in Miami Vice(2006). Absolutely nails it.

Looking forward to this.

ICYMI, check out @scottwstern.bsky.social's thoughtful review in the @newrepublic.com of Mark Goble's "mesmerizing" new book, DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION. bit.ly/4nJbt6a @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Slow motion is, today, the most popular special effect in film and television—a designation that leads Goble to label it, in his mesmerizing new book, [DOWNTIME], 'the very least special effect.'"-Scott W. Stern, The New Republic. buff.ly/j3A9Scl @goblemark.bsky.social @newrepublic.com #SlowMotion

A little late to this but congratulations to Mark Goble on the publication of his eagerly-anticipated new book, DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/y7pc948d @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Many thanks to @scottwstern.bsky.social and @newrepublic.com!

I'm really going to miss the scrappy, family-run Lakers that had to make do with guys like Kareem, Magic, Kobe, Shaq, LeBron, Luka . . .

excited to read this @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Bad Eggelston homage but good #harmanphoenix on a Yashica 124. #filmphotography

Democracy has seen better days

Good day on campus. Hands off UC Berkeley.

Wish me luck.

Didn’t think we’d get there today but who knows? Dream big, kids.

The dream of the 90s is alive…

FYI what's happening right now with MLB.TV is what Elon wants for social security, cancer research, universities, and freedom.

I’ll admit that I second-screen Shrinking sometimes but I thought I had a pretty good idea what was going on…