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deebeehobbs.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) in Southern Alberta, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár, #COYS
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LOL we’re doing Stupid The Power Broker

sitting my ass down and learning about who is good at music right now

My book now has a cover! Out from @haymarketbooks.org in November

sicko season

loving this from @cgvanderburg.bsky.social — really glad to see Bruce Robbins added into this latest theatre of the method wars

Jay Wright

I think “classic rock” is a cultural formation best understood as a persistent alternative chronotope to political history

Yet another example of how well-meaning liberals and "public safety" moderates embrace surveillance technologies at their own peril. The license plate readers that a bunch of cities set up to "fight crime" and prevent car thefts are being used to track immigrants and look for folks getting abortions

Bernie would have banned ukulele-based musical comedy

Do I have to tap the sign?

As well he should

Fetterman has now come closer than anyone in a decade to the correct use of “performative,” only to miss again; senate votes are very much speech acts!

“Pantomime”

LOVE this poem, this book!

I have a very 2025 poem in @thespinoff.bsky.social today. One of the more 2025 poems you're likely to see. Hope you like it! thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

my book SPOILED has a cover and is up on @dukepress.bsky.social’s site — so grateful to julie tolentino for this beautiful image of her final performance of HONEY. coming in october, preorder soon.. www.dukeupress.edu/spoiled

This amounts to state-sponsored detransition for more than 152,000 people

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC BWAHAHAHAHAHAH SAW THE LAST TWENTY MINUTES AFTER THE GIGGY VICARIO YOU BEAUTYYYY

YEAH BABY SPURS

Happy birthday Bob

I see Canadian outrage over this, but the Canadian policy isn't that different right now, and will probably end up converging to something like this

RIP www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58192/...

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

rip Alice Notley

sad that Sean Young’s Lynch movie was Dune