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whenever I get to tell an undergraduate about Whym Chow, Flame of Love, I get a little star in heaven [what's this book?written for a dead dog by "Michael Field," the shared pseudonym of lovers, and, uh, relatives Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper] open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/speci...:

maleman is surely a compensatory pleonasm

As genetic inheritance of character and intellect is such a core belief of the kind of Right Vance is, the fact that he's from his family and producing children of his own has always befuddled me. Surely he must recognize that he's an outlier.

The Three Lives of Condor

Speaking to you know who: don't call it Speculum, don't call it Speculum for the People, just don't call it Speculum anything

I’m just saying you roll up to the haiku contest with a fuckin verse cycle you deserve to get your shit rocked by the austere beauty of snow

It's suitable that this is his taste but it'd be much funnier if he were actually short into eastern European new wave, oh yeah, says Ron Howard, I love that movie about the freaky cat

bc I am a goy, I've been using the first chunk of the day off from teaching to respond to email / write minutes / set up meetings w/ students / check a student's 20-page (!) translation of a Middle English poem, all while listening to Fugazi, and wishing there were a Fugazi song about this exactly

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

Saw on a stoop NO FEAR KING LEAR, a slightly simplified Shakespeare text, but wondering which bits they cut. The storm?

Grading the first assignment in my How to Read a Book first year writing class, which asks students to document and analyze their embodied experience reading a book of their choice, and enjoying their startled realizations that yes, the physical form and appearance of a book matters a lot!

Apart from everything else, fuck ICE / dismantle DHS in Trump 2 functioning as a FTP / Defund the Police with a far broader foundation of support

This weekend I had the pleasure of screening "Revelations of Divine Love" for the esteemed scholars of the International Anchoritic Society & Early Middle English conference at Brandeis! Believe me folks, there is no tougher room than one filled with medievalists! And they dug it!!

So apparently Margaret of Oignt and Marie of Oignies are different people

Also 'rejecting an eye for an eye' missed the point that the law was about setting a *ceiling* on violence by demanding it had to be exactly proportional. It's not about not doing violence. It's about calculation and the illusion of rationality.

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

Just came from the Brooklyn Book Festival, where JM dubbed one famous author "yappy"

Subway delay but it’s fine because the guard announced it was because fffftjsbsbchdjsjjxbehxuchudb hsdhhshsh loossshfhdhdhdhd grand centajshshdhdhndbd

Okay, Sunday puzzler. Every time I watch Quo Vadis I have an instinctive reaction that this shot is restaging a well-known painting (something the movie certainly does with Leonardo's Last Supper), but I've never been able to track it down. Anybody recognize it?

My first teaching gig was here. So many of the shots of Columbia you think you see on TV are actually Brooklyn College.

There's a great gag in the movie PEACOCK, a new Austrian comedy, in which a guy w/ lights that toggle by clapping, flops sadly on his bed and demands his system play him a happy song. It's the Handclappin' Song, and his lights flash on/off until they trip the breaker.

It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...

Saw a teen on the train with a host of small stuffed animals and anthropomorphs, likewise, dangling from their outfit, like trophies, like the beards of the defeated kings sported in the History of the Kings of Britain by the Giant of Mt St Michel

Perhaps we shouldn’t let Israel kill whoever they want.

no it's a trap, calling people out for not understanding Hegel works like the monster from It Follows, if you do it you'll be cursed to believe you understand Hegel until you start having opinions about him

Living this every day

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

JESUS: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani CHATGPT: you’re completely right. And I want to thank you for holding me accountable. It looks like you’ve somehow got nailed to a cross

friends. if you were me--with a penchant for any combination of the weird, the old (technology, usually), the off-beat, the subversive--what would you see in Milan?

To haunt your dreams, here's a late 2nd c. fragment of a portrait bust of the emperor Commodus once the face added in the early 19th century was removed... (Liverpool, Merseyside Museum, from the collection of Henry Blundell)

Fwiw at least Trump doesn't care about anything he can't watch on TV

Finally back home for a long enough stretch to go to life drawing tonight. If anyone feels like sponsoring this particular indulgence, I have several drawings I would happily part with for your decorating pleasure.

An European tells a American that people in the EU have freedom of speech, they could go on a progressive tv channel and say: "I love Donald Trump!" The American answers: "Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go on a progressive tv channel and say: I love Donald Trump!"

i think this sentence is a sleeper agent activation phrase

The Transformation of the Statue of Liberty into Something Edible by Marta Minujín, 1980 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137507

They're The Same Picture.

saw on walk to brooklyn college, a poster of a found cat that looks like a Gerhard Richter

at the bodega today, made up for the quarter I was short for my coffee on Monday, a satisfying conclusion at the bodega today, dizzied though by the big screen wishing Modi a happy birthday

fwiw I got mine on Sat at the CVS at Mulberry and Houston on Sat, scheduled in advance, and it was easy peasy, except of course I was kinda ueerrrmmmmmm on Sunday but still!

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In 2011, on Buzz (!), I tagged IFC, whose metal auteur shirts I'd long admired: Scorsese in the Scorpions font, Ozo in the Iron Maiden, etc, and I thought they needed a Varda done in the Venom font. Well it's my birthday and now I have it.

This summer I brought @nathankhensley.bsky.social's Action Without Hope to one of the most naturally beautiful places I go each year, on the intuition that this is where you should read books in the environmental humanities. This is about Nathan’s excellent book and my questionable intuition.

while all that was happening my Medieval Nature seminar was happening, and here's me with week #2, talking for ~ 1000 words on Alexander and Dindimus with a bit of Swarbrick and Tremblay at the end medievalkarl.com/general-cult...

NYC AREA PEEPS. SAVE THE DATE. 29 Sept doors open 12.30 pm. A public lecture not to be missed.

Listening to Massenet's THAIS on the walk from train this morning, I've heard it tens of times, but this morning it sounded whew like kitsch.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

This Day in Labor History: September 14, 1889. Black guano workers on Navassa Island rose up and killed five white bosses in an act of desperation in revolt against a racist work regime. Let's talk about conditions of radicalized labor on this American owned island!