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burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
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I wrote about cross-border e-commerce, tariffs, and Trump memes and memorabilia @nytimes.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Says RFK, the famous baseball-playing poet who has held jobs.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Rally in defense of immigrants, including our 11 students who just had their visas revoked, at SUNY-Stony Brook this afternoon.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There’s *still* no statue or US federal holiday for Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw both his shoes at George W. Bush during a press conference

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Happy Passover; we’re really getting to see what it was like to have a new plague every day

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In the spirit of acknowledgements, I thank Betty Frazier, who toured as a chorus girl w/ Rocco in Australia and NZ in 1955-56. Pictured here. She’s around 90 now, and was among the best interviews for the project. It means everything that she’ll get to read it. Dr Ronald Stephens introduced us.

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Viewpoint diversity rocks bc, if you’ve ever tried to read one of those “Against Multiculturalism” books that profs grudgingly assign, the arguments are so mangled that you have to grant the author the same latitude you would a small child; in other words, engaging them at all is affirmative action.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

big 10 people! whip your senates! alums! call your presidents, provosts, general counsels, and get in formation!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Sixteenth tooth fairy letter for my daughter

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Guys, come here, I found a map!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process. @dandipiero.bsky.social, @holmesjessica.bsky.social, and @robinjames.bsky.social are gonna talk about bad feelings in pop music. Join us at 5p ET on Zoom. I wanna ask them about goth. For more info: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Finished season 3 of "White Lotus" and lots to say. I think it's the weakest of the three seasons, but still undoubtedly layered. It's of course hard to watch awful people be awful, but the meta-commentary is hard to argue with. I'm most interested in Thailand-as-character, and secondly in "farang."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Finished season 3 of "White Lotus" and lots to say. I think it's the weakest of the three seasons, but still undoubtedly layered. It's of course hard to watch awful people be awful, but the meta-commentary is hard to argue with. I'm most interested in Thailand-as-character, and secondly in "farang."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

There’s an older guy posted up by the farmer’s market, blaring Bernie Sanders’ speech from yesterday’s rally thru a Bluetooth speaker, and sort of joyfully dancing along, to what I guess to him is the music of a twentieth century Brooklyn Jewish Marxist voice, with even twirls & claps now and then.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Book talk today at the Stony Brook University Library (Special Collections Room on the 2nd floor), at 12:30. More talks coming in the next month at the Stony Brook Humanities Institute, Yale University, IASPM book series (virtual), two bookstore things in Queens and one in Manhattan.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Nazis against antisemitism is a hell of a bridge to buy

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Nazis against antisemitism is a hell of a bridge to buy

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Seems like the news that someone tried to burn down the home of a Jewish governor on Passover with his sleeping family inside has been metabolized a bit too easily, no? Am I crazy?

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments