my physical appearance is basically like a Holbein painting. from the front there's a big weird blotch, but from the side it just looks like death
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@gyzyby.bsky.social
early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
The Smith College Museum of Art is hiring an Associate Registrar. #MuseumSky
Collections Registrar
If you have any questions about the position or our application process, reach out to us at recruiting-u@smith.edu. Department Museum of Art Job Description Job Summary As a member of the Collections ...
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if you are not listening to the new Wild Shoats album what are you even doing
an absolutely insane weekend if you are an early modernist who also listens to "wait wait don't tell me"
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 2w agoYou can listen to this week's Wait Wait episode with the extremely charming Tyler James Williams here if you missed it on the radio!!!
I learned recently that the photo of JPII that she tore up on SNL was very specifically her mother's photograph, and makes me love her all the more
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
RIP Bonnie Tyler, thank you for giving us this scene of Cate Blanchett cooking www.youtube.com/watch?v=cloX...
Bandits (2001) Cate Blanchett, Bonnie Tyler
YouTube video by Nati Shali
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wearing my Josh Ritter tshirt starting brawls on the streets of Brooklyn with guys wearing Noah Kahan tshirts
sorry to be cringe on here but is Green Day's "Holiday" the most prophetic text we have?
when the TV show's theme music plays during the actual episode in the season 1 finale >>>>>>>
DOIs? boy I don't know. Chicago making you put them in your footnotes? ohhhhh buddy
pov we’re at the piano bar and you just suggested we request Andrew Lloyd Weber
pickled celery is doing a lot of work in restaurant salads these days, but this is actually quite a welcome development
there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research
I realize this should have said "back in the old country we called that..." but I still think it should have gotten some likes
gabriel b@gyzyby.bsky.social · 2mo agoHumbert Humbert? Girl in my day we called that an Umberto Eco
this is heartwrecking news. Dito/Martha was the absolute soul of Philly. one of the most brilliant performers I've ever seen. www.out.com/obituaries/d...
Dito van Reigersberg, known as Philly drag performer Martha Graham Cracker, dies
Van Reigersberg helped expand what drag could look and sound like in Philadelphia: theatrical, literary, absurd, deeply musical, and emotionally alive.
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I reviewed Beans Velocci's fantastic new book, SEX ISN'T REAL: THE INVENTION OF AN INCOHERENT BINARY, for the Society for US Intellectual History -- s-usih.org/2026/05/gabr...
Gabriel Bloomfield on Beans Velocci’s *Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary* | Society for US Intellectual History
“Nature,” wrote the Marxist critic Raymond Williams, “is perhaps the most complex word in the language.” Though we intuitively understand appeals to nature when we hear them, Williams insisted, the ma...
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I reviewed Beans Velocci's fantastic new book, SEX ISN'T REAL: THE INVENTION OF AN INCOHERENT BINARY, for the Society for US Intellectual History -- s-usih.org/2026/05/gabr...
Gabriel Bloomfield on Beans Velocci’s *Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary* | Society for US Intellectual History
“Nature,” wrote the Marxist critic Raymond Williams, “is perhaps the most complex word in the language.” Though we intuitively understand appeals to nature when we hear them, Williams insisted, the ma...
s-usih.org
Woolf on Eliot's wife: "This bag of ferrets is what Tom wears round his neck."
alex guenther@guentheralex.bsky.social · 4mo agoi like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder
