joan of arc looked stellar in philly today. not a bad angle. ⚜️🗡️👑⚜️

scored some cheap arthurian works for $3 at an antique store 📚💙

These are some of the #TolkienReadingDay greetings I sent friends and family this year. The road goes ever on and on . . .

The latest Studies in Medievalism is out, which includes my essay focused on Joan of Arc in the Time Gate sci-fi anthologies “Joan of Arc Al in Time Gate (1989): A Medieval Simulacrum in the Twenty-Second Century” 🪐📚💙 🗃️

i have more copies of The Transformers: The Movie than i need, but not as many as i want

just got a copy of Popularising the Middle Ages in Modern Fantasy: Neomedievalism, Video Games, and Vikings. There’s something for everyone! 📚💙 🪐📚

Just arrived in the mail - Pugh and Weisl's Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During FIlm's Foundational Era (2026). There are 2 Joan of Arc films represented here. #medievalsky 📚💙 📽️

just got the proofs for my forthcoming essay in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching! #medievalsky 🗃️

Just received my author copies for my contribution to Arthuriana 35.4 (Winter 2025). My article on bored knights on the Quest for the Holy Grail is available for free via open access muse.jhu.edu/pub/91/artic... 🗃️ @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social

Sam is also excited that he just received a Valentine from @scottmanning.com & I don’t have the heart to tell him the cards are for Eric & I. It’s ok. The skeletons can’t read, they’ll never know. 🖤

currently reading The Monitors (1966) by Keith Laumer 🪐📚💙

currently reading: The Day They Invaded New York (1964) by Lewis Irwin 🪐📚💙

ICYMI this Arthurian essay is free! 🗃️

My Arthuriana essay about bored knights on the Quest for the Holy Grail is currently available via Open Access on Project MUSE. Download it and forget about it! #medievalsky muse.jhu.edu/pub/91/artic...

mrw a coworker asks "dude, can i read your transformers essays?"

Look, I'm not trying to convince you that Transformers: The Movie (1986) is Shakespeare and Arthurian Legend, but I have 2 publications in peer reviewed journals that say so. 📽️ 🗃️ 🧵 1/4

currently reading—The Garbage Chronicles (1985) by Frank Herbert 🪐📚💙

currently reading Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein 🪐📚💙 time to see what had my dad so hyped as a kid

I’m thrilled to share that my article, "The Culmination of Shakespearean Villainy in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)," has been published in Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration! journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ms... It’s got Shakespeare, Medievalism, and Starscream! #medievalsky

currently reading: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick 🪐📚💙

currently reading Sidney’s Comet (1983) by Brian Herbert

I know some of y’all have published in peer reviewed journals, but have you ever cited your dad? I did. I mean, I cited my dad. Not yours.

As a teenager I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail over and over until I memorized every line. Today, I have an article on the 13th-century Queste del saint Graal published in Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies (@arthurianajrnl.bsky.social) www.arthuriana.com/35-4

currently reading: Return to Earth (1980) by H.M. Hoover

reading a novel from 1964 where the family diner table has to be free of television, magazines, and books

it’s that time of year where i tweak postcards to be christmas themed. professor x is very happy to be santa this year.

i wasn’t ready for the morbidity of this roger rabbit dip flip game from 1988

just got the proofs for my forthcoming essay in Studies in Medievalism!

just got the proofs for my forthcoming essay in Arthuriana! @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social

Fortunate to meet Donato Giancola this last weekend at the IX sci-fi/fantasy art show in Reading. He graciously signed my Lord of the Rings book.

As a teenager I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail in daily 30-min chunks over and over until I memorized every line. Today I’ve had an essay on the 13th-century Queste del saint Graal accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal.

#cfp from the International Joan of Arc Society for Kalamazoo 2026. There are 2 panels and 1 roundtable. #medievalsky www.joanofarcsociety.org/call-for-pap...

#cfp (Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual) at Kalamazoo 2026 www.academia.edu/143834155/20...

strongly considering stopping at staples to get some staples

My fountain pens match Helen Slater’s wetsuit on The Legend of Billie Jean

commute reading 🪐 📚 🛸

A coworker suffers from gout. A friend is in West Africa battling malaria and typhoid. What century is this?

I need an honest assessment. Are these stamps creepy?

I was chillin outside and this little guy walked right up to me. He was startled when I talked to him, but he didn’t scamper off. We’ve left carrots for him.

This is the second snapping turtle I’ve helped across the road in as many weeks.

mrw my friend asks me to read their essay and not hold back

Arthurian images at the Morgan Library from the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibit. Lancelot and Guinevere, and Vivien and Merlin. Albumen silver print, 1874

I encountered a ferocious beast near my house. Barely escaped with my life.

Anna Hyatt Huntington’s Joan of Arc bronze statue is still standing tall and proud in NYC 🗽. It is now 110 years old. 📷 mine

This is the proper text to footnote ratio. Some may disagree but they would be wrong.

In a hallway that connects Terminal A East and West at the Philly International Airport, there is a series of giant black and white photos of the city. Among them is Emmanuel Frémiet’s Joan of Arc equestrian statue.

Joan of Arc stands sentinel with banner after the yard has had a mow

new joan of arc book just dropped

I chromed the base of my Matrix stand and I’m quite happy with the results. #transformers

Lovely to see Scott Manning, who contributed “Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986)" to the latest vol of Studies in Medievalism, at this year's Kalamazoo conference! #ICMS #kzoo2025 @scottmanning.com