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zeemonkey.bsky.social
Alabamian. Cynic. Leftist. Apostate. English professor. he/him
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Say what you want about kids these days and their slang, but I LOVE the term “brainrot.” Was my genX ass ever this self-aware?

everybody hates on the American South and yet y’all keep moving here

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Is there a college-aged white man in America that isn’t an insufferable douchebag? Has there ever been one?

One time when Lucy was around two, she pooped her pants in the car I said “Lucy, did you poop your pants!” “No Daddy,” said Lucy, “Rockso did it” “Rockso pooped your pants?” “Yes Rockso pooped my pants” Rockso is a dog and was not even in the car

If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich? If I’m so smart, why ain’t I rich?

English is a profoundly stupid language

woke is when stuff costs less

I’m a Gator, so go Gators

I’ve never preached or given a homily, but I have often tried to teach a book to a room full of people that didn’t read it so I get it

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

I grew up a Jew in the south and was regularly told I was going to hell by smiling people who genuinely thought they were doing me a favor. They were helping me. They were giving me a chance.

Hard to be American these days when the whole world is roasting us but we can’t say anything back because everything they say is true

For every racist Boomer that dies of old age, the internet creates approximately 1.68 new incels, which is unfortunately above replacement level

can’t win no winning to be done

Hey, y’all, I got five of my Lyft stories published in the latest issue of the Apalachee Review. Y’all should totally buy a copy: www.apalacheereview.org

If I had remained a high school teacher in 2003 instead of trying to do all this extra horseshit, I’d be retired right now

Knight Rider, I am sorry to say, is woke Just look up the kind of car they let Hasslehoff drive

The Wiggles are based

Jesus Christ had the power to create loaves and fishes from thin air And He just gave it all away like a dumbass He could have funded the entire movement He could have been rich af You’d think the Son of God would understand economics

nobody is sufficiently ashamed of themselves

There are few things cooler than watching somebody who really knows how to do a thing, do the thing

I reckon I ain’t got no problems more money wouldn’t solve

Greece? The Odyssey Italy? The Divine Comedy England? Paradise Lost USA? Huckleberry Finn

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is the Lyrical Ballads of our generation

At a dance competition in Georgia There are an inordinate amount of cloggers in Georgia

It will never get better Fuck y’all for lying to me and getting my hopes up

I keep paying union dues to prop up lobbyists and advocates whose tireless efforts garner a whopping 30% support in the Florida legislature for whatever teachers need It is wonderful that so many good people give a shit yay optimism

It’s amazing how many hippies lived long enough to see themselves become The Man

Y’all keep quoting the black letters to me and I’ll keep quoting the red letters to y’all

I simply do not want to be mistaken for the people I would look like if I were clean-shaven and short-haired

All I ever do in class is imitate professors I idolize Halli, Burke, Eddins, Weber presented in Alabama accent

I think one of the main reasons I hate old white men is because I am one

Trump = Richard II

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

Dudes crying about DEI when the only reason they got jobs is because Daddy made a phone call

Shadowrun is prophetic

“If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!” —Aaron the Moor Titus Andronicus 5.1

@bookspotlight.bsky.social , I feel this is something you would agree with.

Stock market gonna crash tomorrow my droogs