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Did a start-of-summer bookstore run, made sure to pick up these two books from two of my grad school poetry colleagues!!

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What a weird day, America! Had to cleanse my brain with some CINEMA.

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if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in our house

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The Thing The Exorcist Eyes Wide Shut American Gigolo

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The world is SO BAD but seeing your baseball team win in the bottom of the 10th is still SO GOOD

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Cleaned out my desk today. Had to make sure I took all my best guys. It is very weird to be leaving this little corner of the Humanities office where I have spent 10 years. Change is good.

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happy pride!!!

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Criterion of Days of Thunder when

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Having some emotions about leaving the school I’ve been teaching at for a decade. The thing that got me today at graduation was finding out that the senior boys voted to give me the Grand Canyon rock hammer—the first time they’ve voted to give it to a woman. I love those kids!

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I am in the background of this photo but hidden. @scalzi.com I loved your speech!

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loved editing @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social's piece on Jackass's resonances within the trans community ... give this one a read!

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Love this writing from @eccantwell.bsky.social w/ excellent observations about the role of tech… “eXistenZ opens in a world that we only later discover to be a simulation occurring inside of a virtual reality game (we think?). @bwdr.bsky.social www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/08/a...

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that thing where one of your students turns in a creative project that has you going "whoa, please don't go into finance!!!"

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This is awesome, and I would say that "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance" is ... an understatement about what Twelfth Night does with gender and performance, haha

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very into this piece we published today!

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Listen, I understand the resistance to masking. I hate masking! I won't pretend it's fun; it just feels, now, necessary sometimes. But here's one thing I will never get: Why on earth are people out here in 2025 walking around actively sick without a mask. If you are sick PUT A FUCKING MASK ON.

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guess it’s really REALLY time to bring back masking

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listen I HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE NEW MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE because of WORK AND LIFE COMMITMENTS which is QUIETLY KILLING ME so I'm re-posting my Top Gun: Maverick piece as it seems relevant to Cruise's human-first themes. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/02/02/m...

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Re-watching this today with my horror class for our last class of the semester, I was more happy than ever that @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social and I named our kid Fox

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If you’re not feeling it today, I highly recommend watching the Post-Modern Prometheus episode of X-Files because I genuinely do not believe it is possible to watch without a smile on your face.

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This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

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This is exactly how I feel about teaching right now. Be a weirder teacher. Make your lessons and assignments more unhinged, more strange, more absurd. We can save each other.

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All it takes is one beautiful card from a student at the end of a semester when I'm completely burned out to make me feel like it was all worth it

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Alice Notley, RIP

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Out of Alcatraz #3 is a top comic for this week according to EISNER NOMINATED comics journalists at The Beat:

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I don’t know, guys, the vibes today are real shitty

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Keeping kids & teachers in school and healthy since 2020 has been enough of a challenge even WITH vaccines. Buckle up, I guess. Also: even vaccinated, at-risk populations will now be markedly MORE at-risk thanks to higher exposure everywhere. It’s fun!!

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People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

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The dry cleaning of the graduation regalia + taking my students on existential hikes really means the end of the year is upon us

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Watched Episode 6 of Angels in America with students today & man, Prior's speech about wanting more life always gets me.

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My students have told me to start a Substack. I don't know if this is worthwhile or not. Pondering. And definitely not using this pondering as an excuse to procrastinate on grading.

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I love this so much this scene has also driven me crazy for my whole life slate.com/culture/2025...

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I forgot the title of Licorice Pizza just now and called it Pizza Lemonade and I think that’s what I’ll call it from now on

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I love blowing kids' minds with The Only Good Indians right at the end of my horror class. Reading the sections from the Elk Head Woman's perspective out loud ... so good.

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type B teacher moment: typing your lesson plan into Canvas as students are already engaged in the first activity which you totally designed but just didn't document

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