As an icebreaker, I tell students to ask me random questions. Sometimes they are "favorite pizza in Milwaukee?" or "favorite one season TV show?" This week student asked "silliest thing that you're terrified of?" My answer: "Flyers goaltending." @flyperbole.bsky.social @jsaquella.bsky.social

Me whenever a family member insists we play a board game I've never heard of

Seeing lots of people post clips from Sinatra in "The House I Live In" as a response to Stephen Miller being a racist about Sinatra. Just a random reminder that "The House I Live In" is in the public domain. Every once in a while it's good to remember the public domain is good...

Got the youngest a bunch of toy soldiers. He was delighted. Then I ruined his day by telling him about the "Bloody Angle" at Spotslyvania @rfcapsmoustache.bsky.social

Merry Christmas!

@suesswassersee.bsky.social Okay, I'm going in..

My worlds colliding @rickcity.bsky.social

Middle kid: The weather app says it's 10 degrees out. Me: Feels like it.. Middle kid: So should I wear a coat? Me: *blank stare* Middle kid: Probably right?

2026 is gonna be my year

Gentle reminder that my book ICE: FROM MIXED DRINKS TO SKATING RINKS —A COOL HISTORY OF A HOT COMMODITY makes a great gift for friends and family 💚

@shmeppy.bsky.social Dammit, I'm doing it

Dammit

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social My wife had surgery today and several people have already sent her this:

Nuhhhhhhh peppermint roll!

actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born

actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.

Just did my Orson Welles "ahhhhhhhhh Paul Masson" impression out loud in the grocery store

Still thinking about Tom Brady saying "matriculate the ball"

Even the NHL is like "whoa these skits are cringe."

?????????

Bluesky Wrapped and it's how many times your own joke was explained to you

Here are some clever ones from early film history:

An image from @amybrady.bsky.social's book Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–a Cool History of a Hot Commodity www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700456...

One of the most underrated of all time Repost w/ a gif/picture of your comfort wrestler but not the "obvious" one. The wrestler who just makes you smile. Let’s show some love to those wrestlers that aren't spoken about enough 🤼

I should be doing some work, but here I am plotting out a pro wrestling program featuring German philosophers culminating in a War Games-style main event.

Generally for me, it's "I guess I had better watch my grammar around you, huh?"

Need a gift for a history lover in your life but have no budget to spend on it? Give them the gift of introducing them to a new podcast! 😉 With 210 episodes and counting, they'll enjoy this gift all year round!

Me in February: WHAT IS THIS FEELING? THE EAGLES ARE GOOD! Me now: I fucking hate this team. This is what I know and comfort

I hope you all have a very Gritty Thanksgiving.

Mood when I realize my kids will be home all-day the bulk of the next five weeks

a little birdie* told me that all VUP titles will be 50% off the rest of the year starting on Monday 11/24 *mass marketing email www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...

*neighbors fire live ammo at me to celebrate *

Federico Castelluccio, best known for playing Furio Giunta in the Sopranos, is a master painter and art collector. He discovered a long-lost painting by Baroque artist Guercino and assisted with the restoration on Artemisia Gentileschi at the Getty bsky.app/profile/coli...

Currently running the best score on Puckdoku this morning @jsaquella.bsky.social

This is not what we mean when we say "Go Birds."

Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Was scrolling through some old photos and forgot I sorta won Halloween six years ago as a pretty on-point Charlie Kelly

I mean there was just a massive Great Gatsby party hosted by Trump so...I dont think they are big on reading comprehension

Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

10/10 NO NOTES

Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social

TOE PICK! This week @dartadams.bsky.social & @pgagliardi.bsky.social join in to talk about the Olympics, pop culture, the NBA, sports movie montages, and one of the most quotable films ever made. THE CUTTING EDGE drops NOW on Reckoning with Jason Herbert

Last fall, I had a salivary gland infection that just wrecked me and I wasn't able to sleep, so I spent a lot of nights just sans sleep watching old territory wrestling shows and I saw this and thought I had just fever-dreamed it @rickcity.bsky.social youtu.be/BHHdmzsvTs0?...

@thescrvnr.bsky.social and I are planning to submit a panel to the Pop Culture Assocation conf. on biopics, and we are looking for another paper proposal. She's currently working on LA BAMBA (1988) and I'm thinking of something on Sonja Henne films of the 30s. Interested? Reach out to either of us

@rickcity.bsky.social I know I should be impressed, but I would be impressed if he did something less cliché like "the Iron Claw" www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/394189/d...

On phone with 13 year old- “Dad who was John Brown?” Me:

Fuck the Dodgers

Those were some Web Gems, I tell ya

Happy Halloween from us in our best What We Do in the Shadows costumes