Herbie Rides Again for Tax Purposes

John Beaudine@beaudinetwin2.bsky.social · 3h ago

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for Tax Purposes

Katie’s understandably limited the replies and quoting, but this is spot on.

Why are we still training young people to work in faded (if not entirely dissolved) models of traditional media industries?

Eternally grateful to have been born into the first generation to normalize public headphone-wearing. And for the headphones, of course.

Unfortunately, every IP is rebootable.

A good explanation of why faculty should announce their retirement in August rather than April, for the sake of their department and school. More helpful still would be institutional guidelines, but I don’t think many universities have them. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Retirement Notices: A PSA

Best practices for leaving a position and setting your employer up to find a suitable replacement.

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Grateful for the two days of fall break this week so we can be a bit rested before the relentless next six weeks.

This in particular. Everything’s an asset we’re supposed to be shilling. Anyone else getting constant texts from vultures trying to get you to sell your home?

J.D. Connor@jdconnor.bsky.social · 6d ago

Every contingency demands that we read it intensely, daytrading and shitcoining; kalshing and realrealing through value equations that elude us. Who the fuck is checking the price of their used car often enough to decide to sell? Why does Carvana think this is a mode of being?

J.D. nails it. We’ve basically been living in successive iterations of the basic ethos of this for the past 45 years in the US, but it feels more like a deliberate hollowing and segregation into permanent wealth vs permanent hustling more now than it has in a century.

J.D. Connor@jdconnor.bsky.social · 6d ago

The experience of the rebooted Gilded Age is hard to get a systematic handle on. How can everything carry premium/designer/elite/platinum pricing? How does that feel? Here are three versions of what I've been thinking of as luxury offgassing. 1. Airlines race to premium (Delta CEO to WSJ)

Look at this badass 1920s stonework at Cranbrook. Carving *out* of the stone rather than into it. Inscription is incredible.

This. And when I’m not typing, I’m writing those words in pen on paper.

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · last wk.

As a historian, I learn with my fingers, typing the most important words in what I read into notes as a way to literally embody the information. To tell an "AI" to answer a question, then proceed according to what it outputs, is the opposite: the lobotomization of thought.

Loving the field trips in this conference in Detroit. Seeing lots of incredible art and design endeavors and schools that I wouldn’t have bundled otherwise. And tomorrow morning: jazz, Motown, and techno. 🎶

Great Rushfield analysis, with receipts, of the film side of Skydance on day one. TLDR (or “DR, I don’t subscribe to the Ankler”): Mike & Pam’s record was great actually, treat your talent well, walk the talk, and there are no such things as “mergers.” theankler.com/skydances-or...

Skydance's Original(s) Sin: Firing Its Hitmakers - The Ankler

The rap on Mike & Pam? They spent too freely on movies that weren't 'Transformers.' The slate tells a very different story

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THIS.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Holy shit.

New faculty job in Cinema Studies at CUNY Staten Island!

Bilge Yesil@bilgeyesil.bsky.social · last wk.

My department has a new opening in Cinema Studies! Please spread the word. cuny.jobs/staten-islan...

Nothing else comes close. I was probably 5 and it freaked the shit out of me. I didn’t make it past this scene till many years later.

Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder): No Earthly Way

Alt: Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder): No Earthly Way

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 2w ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

“It’s Citizen Kane. It’s Citizen Kane. IT’S CITIZEN KAAAAAANNNE!!!”

don't hug me I'm porksweats@porksweats.bsky.social · 2w ago

what's your favorite kids in the hall skit that's not girl drink drunk or the daves i know

Managing a performing arts school is just like managing an athletic department, only with about 98% less money.

Outside the box idea for Disney, NBCU, or (sigh) Skydance: bring back standalone made-for-TV movies. The industry needs more feature-length proving grounds for young talent, and these could be done cheaply and repurposed from network to streamer and back (and vice versa).

We’re doing exactly what we thought we’d be doing in the 21st century: staring most of the day at a pocket computer that makes us angry and anxious. We’re living the dream.

What a semester, huh? Lemon, it's October 1st.

Great and prescient TT job. More of this please! If I were 30 years younger (and, to be fair, much better trained in LIS), this would be a dream job.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."

An annoying but also fascinating academic thing is long-term faculty and staffers having reflex assumptions, reactions, and suspicions stemming from how things were run several department chairs, Deans, or Provosts ago. Gothic horror, only the ghost is some Dean from 1997.

Pondering the viability of a NIL collective for our visual and performing arts students.

My new campus hero is the kid who wears the all-white suit every day (complete with white headphones and tennis shoes) who smells faintly of clove cigarettes. He’s like his own 2000s “The” band or a self-contained Wes Anderson protagonist.

The layered temporalities of academic life take a collective psychic toll. Especially these days, when there are more of them than ever demanding simultaneous attention.

Wait, people think there are still inescapable pop songs in this era of algorithm-delivered pop culture? 🤔 (Speaking as a Texan who only listens to Bandcamp, NTS, and his own Plex library and was not aware of (and still haven’t heard) something called “Choosing Texas” until this morning.)

If you’re looking for a slightly off-the-radar show on that list with some amazing women characters and performances, I’ll put in a pitch for Andor, if you haven’t yet seen it.

Perfection. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting ...

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Another faculty job at SMU Meadows! This one is to lead our growing Sports Media program in Journalism. Details in the link! apply.interfolio.com/191548