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I teach at a university and I play the guitar, but NEVER at the same time
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New essay-review out in ALH: one of my favorite things I've ever written. A pleasure to think about history, contemporaneity, remembering, and forgetting, in dialogue with some great recent books—most extensively @manshel.bsky.social's remarkable WRITING BACKWARDS academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

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New essay-review out in ALH: one of my favorite things I've ever written. A pleasure to think about history, contemporaneity, remembering, and forgetting, in dialogue with some great recent books—most extensively @manshel.bsky.social's remarkable WRITING BACKWARDS academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"We’ve had a tremendous relationship, and frankly, the prime minister and I have met twice before" (Trump on Starmer) is very

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

No North Carolina date on the Wu Tang farewell tour. For the first time in my life, Ghostface Killah has forsaken me.

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It's 2025, why are we bringing class into this? Love is love.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Chiefs Prometheus 🤝 tormented by eagles

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Stickers for my local football club Dundela FC. Their ground, Wilgar Park, is known as the hen run because it’s so small, and so the team are the Hens. #uptheduns

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

It's an unconventional way to replace Robbie Williams, but good luck to them

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Read this as “clams”

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

"Holes-in-one" surely?

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Print newspapers could've survived the internet if they'd just kept writing stories in this voice

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Life is just an endless succession of finding out things I didn't know I wasn't doing

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Egg prices really are out of control

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

For the first time in my life I'm actually teaching a course with the section designator "101" this semester, which is something I thought only existed in campus novels and movies

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

When you're Iggy Pop and someone tells you it's opposites day

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This 1993 Van Morrison bootleg looking at me: "I can fix him" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNoi...

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I swear nobody on earth has ever once called them this

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I know it has become cringe to do the Let's Talk About Men's Mental Health bit; nevertheless, I wanted to say somewhere vaguely public that mine has been in the toilet for the past 3-4 months. Verging on crisis. BUT! Today I arranged to talk to someone about it. Hoping things can get better!

submitted 64 days ago • 12 comments

Remember when Bob Dylan said he spent the Covid lockdowns binge-watching Coronation Street

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