darrylzero.bsky.social
Dad. Blackman. Partner. PhD candidate. Greñudo. All opinions mine and not my institution's. Black man with a white mom. Not biracial.
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Meh, I don't want people to take my usernames and pretend to be me (whatever good that would do them). I'm there even less than I am here.
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You do realize that skeets like this are why they didn't vote for your shitty candidate, right? Like, YOU ARE JUSTIFYING THEIR VOTES WITH THIS BEHAVIOR. I knew Democrats can't remember or envision beyond one election cycle, but this is extreme.
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My favorite part about this is that you have no clue that YOU are why Drumpf is back. *sigh*
Well, enjoy WWIII.
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When did they make that choice? They know exactly who isn't voting--they're the people they told to go fuck themselves for daring to suggest that "Republican, only not Drumpf" wasn't good enough. Who know that they actually needed those votes after all?
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"Real Big Sky" hits that same spot for me. Love the hell out of ERR, been a fan since Marriages, good to see another fan.
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KID A is the better album, top-to-bottom.
STANKONIA is a *good* album, but Outkast was always just "Digital Underground, only lazier" and this album (minus "B.O.B., which is a genuinely interesting single) proved it.
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...pics or it didn't happen? I'm confused as to how to joke about this.
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in your mom's defense, neither would I.
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It's never the right time for that. What we need is an incremental, market-based approach to researching the benefits of high-speed rail vs. using the same amount of money to give to oil and car companies.
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in their defense, Walt's internal soundtrack contains the stellar song "Life," by Chocolate Genius, which automatically makes him real cool, but I also think none of those guys a) think the soundtrack to the show was playing in Walt's mind or b) know the genius of Chocolate Genius
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"But Zero," you say, "that could apply to any country!"
Correct! Now consider why we're supposed to think that some countries have the right to exist, and others don't.
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Ireland sounds awesome! We have similar things here in the US--Interlibrary Loan, to be specific--but it's not as centralized or universal. (Admittedly, the US is so spread out that it's harder to do.)
Our govt is trying to get rid of public libraries. Sad face.
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I know you and I talk about this regularly, but I banged my knee on an endcap at the grocery store last week and uttered a low-in-volume-but-still-clearly-forceful "calice de tabarNAAAAAAAAK" and absolutely nobody understood me or was offended.
It's like a secret code for cool kids.
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I still think the CLANDESTINE, WOLVERINE BLUES, and TO RIDE, SHOOT STRAIGHT, AND SPEAK THE TRUTH is the band's three-album sweet spot, and I dug UPRISING and MORNING STAR, but this album really deserved a better look.
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No need to be sorry. Again--this is generations in the making, because white people were too scared of Black people benefiting from a better society to demand better of the Democrats. It never occurred to them that decades of "lesser evil" would pave the way for greater evil.
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Eh...the problem is that our nominal "opposition" has spent the past half-a-century signing away then entire store to the Military Industrial Complex. Pretty much the only way things will change here is if either our Liberals force the Democrats to stand for something, or total collapse.
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You're too kind! Your talk was amazing--all of us grad students are *still* talking about it. Thank YOU very much.
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It's nice to be excited about something new. I'll be paying attention to GDL. You should be, too.
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As Literary Studies changes in the face of emergent technologies (and the inherently regressive push of precarious socioeconomic situations), we're going to need people who can clearly demonstrate how and why it matters to people other than just literary scholars. Dr. Kwok is one such person.
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Since I began graduate school and re-immersed myself in literary academia after two decades away, I've struggled to find new scholars whose work really shakes me out of my little niche corner. Dr. Kwok is exactly that--theoretically dense, but in a way that invites collaboration and engagement.
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If I come up with something that someone wants to publish, that's awesome, but, in my own mind, I'm always going to be the high school debate coach helping kids get into Ivy League schools by day and sleeping in his car at night. Teaching is the only thing I ever wanted to do.
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So, if you're from outside the US, and you ever wonder why the wealthiest nation in the history of nations and wealth doesn't provide for its citizens in the same way your country does, it's probably because white people would rather suffer than have a system that benefits Black people too.
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Every social and labor movement in the US has been undercut by people who are perfectly content to live in utter abjection as long as Black people have it worse.
While this is common sense to me, Jonathan Metzl wrote a pretty good book about it:
www.dyingofwhiteness.com