Sharing my latest publication, “What is a trend?” in the Journal of Communication. It speaks to how the trend is a central concept of our era and deserves much more scholarly attention. academic.oup.com/joc/article-...

Huh. I haven’t been here in a long time. Should I be?

<awakens from social media nap, looks around> What did I miss?

I recently learned that a bunch of my family members don’t like Beyoncé, either. Nature is healing.

Is anyone—anyone at all—actually looking forward to the US presidential election this year?

Gotta love it when the NYT lets their movie critic write about higher ed.

Does anybody still use Microsoft Teams?

I wish people would stop being themselves sometimes.

How I fold a fitted sheet

Today I showed my class what a data center looked like and one student’s mouth literally dropped open. “That’s where the stuff you store in the cloud goes,” I said. She was speechless.

Today in bogus social science: just learned about a study (commissioned by the Louisiana Fish Fry Co.) that supposedly 80% of adults crave fries chicken monthly. I have so many questions www.prnewswire.com/news-release....

I’m at the “I’m out of candy - how would you like garbanzo beans from the back of the pantry” stage of the evening. #Halloween

Kid trick or treating just totally deconstructed big box store capitalism’s impact on Halloween with one biting dig at my candy selection. “We have exactly the same stuff at my house,” she said disapprovingly.

It’s very sad that Matthew Perry died - he seemed like a nice guy and a tragic figure. But my god, wtf is up with this revisionist 90s TV history? For the record, NO, everyone did not like Friends.

I haven’t figured out how to integrate this app into my media routine, and I think that’s probably a good thing.

@espiers.bsky.social: It discourages shutting up and listening and letting the voices that matter the most be heard over the din. It implies it’s not OK to have any uncertainty." I Don’t Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/o...

NFTs, lol

Spotted in a home decor store. This is neither home, nor decor

Was recently reminded that many people who have hard jobs or whose job it is to execute difficult things often feel bad when doing so. For a paycheck, people act of behalf of systems they disagree with (in whole or part) all the time. What does this mean? I honestly don’t know.

I made a baby. A Dutch baby.

A friend gave me an invite so here I am. Waiting to be dazzled.