Profile avatar
slstalter.bsky.social
English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress: The New York Hippodrome: A Kaleidoscopic Cultural History. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome
875 posts 2,178 followers 2,746 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 27 Comments 22

Boxing has such a satisfying and specific vocabulary. Bout. Purse. Trunks.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I am so sick of Undertale. I am so sick of Deltarune. The music. The aesthetic. The sound it makes when characters talk. The lore, dear God, the lore. Kill it with fire. Love, the mom of a twelve-year-old kid.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Didn't know about this. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

[“What is that, a boy or a girl?” “A girl.” “How can you tell?” “The sex appeal.” From the New Yorker, July, 1926. By Barbara Shermund, BOTD in 1899.]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the public domain, GODS’ MAN (1929) by Lynd Ward. 🖋️📖 A haunting, wordless story told through woodcuts, this early graphic novel follows an artist’s Faustian bargain. Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/gods... 🧵 #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #GraphicNovel #ArtLiterature

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

I hope folks will read and use the linked piece by @eustace.justshootme.ca about how to create useful alt text. I'm tired of having to spend my time adding alt text to what other people posted in order to be able to share it. If you want to get the word out about something, make it accessible.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for this, I was definitely thinking about pops c.1900-1910 in response to Miller's idiocy.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks, folks who responded. General take: not general knowledge. If I was just writing this for #TCMParty watchers and @bcdreyer.social, it would be a different story.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

General knowledge and audience vibe check: if I say something appeared "in Winchell's column," would you know who/what I was talking about barring further explanation? Trying to figure out if this is a kind of broad kind of American cultural history/knowledge or more esoteric.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

FUCK YEAH HE WON

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Parasite The Royal Tennenbaums Zone of Interest Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Fury Road O Brother, Where Art Thou? Everything Everywhere All at Once Inglorious Bastards Hot Fuzz Get Out

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I made a lower-carb peach crumble that wasn't great. (The cooked peach part is great, the almond flour crumbles, not so much.) Anyone have a go-to recipe?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

@janejoann.bsky.social I've got last week's episode in my podcast app as a new one from this morning

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Any early Americanists or Gothic folks who need a fun assignment?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I got to talk to the hilarious Jason Mantzoukas about his chaotic turn this season on Taskmaster, and what it was like being on the inside of one of his favorite shows. Here's part one of our chat (part two coming next week): pvguide.substack.com/p/hed-i-feel...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

A particular summer pleasure to sit in one place and read the last 100-some pages of a book straight through. Reminds me of when we only had A/C in my mom's bedroom so I sat still and read all day and at night my sister and I camped out on the orange and black shag carpeting around her water bed.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't read contemporary literary fiction for the twists, but Jesus Christ I just got one.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll repeat.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

submitted 11 days ago • 153 comments

Bananadamantium

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Darn, wish I had specified Auburn, Alabama!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Handed out waters at the Auburn #NoKings protest, saw friends who are senior citizens and seniors in high school, waved an American flag, and talked with the wife of a former university president.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

#1000WordsOfSummer Day 14, 1036 words. Figuring out my main character's deal with profiles that have more info about him. Biggest lesson: other guys who ran the Garden were businessmen, but Mike Jacobs was a showman 😎 Thanks, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social ! See you all next summer!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

#1000WordsOfSummer Day 13, words=1131. This started off pretty dismal,typing up quotes for other sections of the book, venting free-writing, but I got to the point where I realized the last kind of source I really needed (long-form profiles of my main guy) and then found them. So I got somewhere.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off? Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference! Testify to the impact! Share what you had started! Share what you hoped & dreamed! Open to all 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help us spread the word?

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment