I think I could appreciate my own melancholy more if I associated it with flying witches and devilry 🧙
Ivan Kreilkamp
@ivan812.bsky.social
English prof, easily distracted Victorianist Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
I love that no one really knows wtf the Picts were doing with these “mysterious stone objects.” Game, toy, talisman, ritual item, art?
This was so great & funny. Visited the Etches Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, a fossil museum in Dorset based on the lifetime collection of Steve Etches, a fossil hunter, from the local area on the Jurassic Coast. Best exhibit features Etches’ workshop & *Etches himself* working behind glass 😮
Who will write the thinkpiece about representations of medically-assisted deaths in Zurich (cp Lerner’s Transcription)
Join community members for the Hoosier Hospitality March on Saturday, August 1, from 3:00–6:00 p.m. at Holland Park in Fishers. The event includes a community march and a vigil honoring individuals and families impacted by immigration policies. #LWVIN #democracylivesinthelight
This was eerie. The “ghost village“ of Tyneham, Dorset, all of whose occupants were forced to evacuate during World War II (town used for military training)
Faculty member fired for assigning an Ottessa Moshfegh story. Class (with a focus on “unlikable narrators”) sounds great!
It definitely needs a NYC run! Brilliant & strange (& horny)
Elle Bee@laurenbee.bsky.social · last wk.If BAM doesn’t program this for Next Wave 2027 they’re really missing a trick
I happened to catch this @theyardtheatre.bsky.social — it’s the extremely raunchy/ graphic Swedish-language puppet adaptation of Jackie Collins we didn’t know we needed (but did!)
‘I dreamt of a show where the audience becomes horny’: the Swedish puppet play starring bonking barbies
Malmö Dockteater is adapting Jackie Collins’s debut novel about the swinging 60s using anatomically enhanced dolls. Puppets help you explore sex in a different way, they say
theguardian.com
The luck is entirely mine. Just look at this beauty! sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-...
Lisa L. Moore@lisalmoore.bsky.social · last wk.I got lucky and got @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as my editor for my forthcoming crazy creative-critical hybrid volume, HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY. The SUNY Press fall catalog just dropped and mine is a Featured Book! Rebecca and I would both love it if you pre-ordered a copy. Link in comments.
Love that “Video Killed the Radio Star” was a riff on JG Ballard
"There are some risible lines, and most of them belong to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. ... Damon demands to be tied to the ship’s mast saying, “I wanna hear the sirens’ song,” like a Boston teenager in 1988 cuing up the new Aerosmith album"
Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
In the latest rendering of the epic, there is plenty to feel guilty about even if you did not mean it.
thenation.com
A friend wrote “I saw Glen Branca at Sanders Theater with a whole bunch of guitarists, it was incredible…We didn’t have tickets to the show but they were rehearsing/sound check? during the day (we walked by and heard them) and you could just walk into Sanders and stay as long as you wanted”
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w agoJust checked my old Twitter account to see if anyone had tried to contact me there. They hadn't but two people did like this clip of Glenn Branca that I posted on the occasion of his death in 2018. Sometimes I think it is the best ever document of music on film. It's art. youtu.be/sqHz7cUw4Ls?...
Weird how there’s just always an epidemic disease outbreak with this guy. prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
prospect.org
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Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w agoJust checked my old Twitter account to see if anyone had tried to contact me there. They hadn't but two people did like this clip of Glenn Branca that I posted on the occasion of his death in 2018. Sometimes I think it is the best ever document of music on film. It's art. youtu.be/sqHz7cUw4Ls?...
I appreciate this use of the term “argy-bargy” (“The colorful phrase is a variant of the earlier Scots phrase argle-bargle. Both parts of the word playfully combine a modification of "argue" with a nonsense rhyming repetition (a linguistic device known as reduplication)”)
CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
MAHA.
huffpost.com
I am reminded of the quote from the great John Waters, a master of the pithy *mot*: "If you go home with someone, and they don't have books, don't f*ck them."
Mick Jagger reveals the secret of his deep understanding of the United States- he has been to Cleveland
From odd football-term origin to brutal genocide in 2 easy steps 😬
Ivan Kreilkamp@ivan812.bsky.social · 4w ago“Nutmeg is native to the Banda Islands, a small archipelago in eastern Indonesia. The Dutch wanted to control the spice, and decided it would be easier to get rid of the Bandanese to achieve their goal. The general ordered the murder and destruction of the civilization”
“Nutmeg is native to the Banda Islands, a small archipelago in eastern Indonesia. The Dutch wanted to control the spice, and decided it would be easier to get rid of the Bandanese to achieve their goal. The general ordered the murder and destruction of the civilization”
Trick or spice? How the 'nutmeg' came to dominate the soccer world
Nutmeg commonly spices up a holiday season eggnog. It's also one of the most sought-after trick moves in soccer.
npr.org