Robert McDonald
@lacanmunist.bsky.social
Associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Kansas, author of Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life https://sunypress.edu/Books/W/Works-like-a-Charm
One year ago today, I went in for surgery to donate my liver to a stranger. At the time, I knew there were multiple recipients who would be helped by my donation, but only afterward did I discover I started a 7-pair living donation chain, the first of its kind in the US.
Me when I walk into a contemporary art exhibit and read the artist was inspired by After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux
Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
Alt: Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
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Visiting Napoli, the city that has my heart, and celebrating with the club that shares a birthday with me. Tonight, the ultras party, tomorrow the club's official festa. Forza! 🩵
Freud, in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life: "As a result of the anatomical integrity of my neuromuscular apparatus...I cannot therefore recall any object in my house that I have ever broken" Also Freud: spends the next 4 pages writing about things he's broken
The Odyssey is a movie about meeting new people in your 40s 🙂
It's called the Odyssey because it's a film you "ought to see"
Supremely fucked up that Trump gets to watch a version of the Finalissima that he inadvertently canceled a few months ago
space between the French center backs is wider than the Champs-Élysées
good lord, does England think if they score enough they get back into the final?
Kinda wild that FIFA makes one NPR personality play against the entire nation of Canada in this round
The World Cup KC fan fest has been picture-perfect for weeks and then some country singing fascist performed the "boot in your ass" Toby Keith song in front of several thousand Colombians and Argentines, stunned into silence
who called it "jogo bonito" and not "give 'em the ol' Brazil Dazzle"
Still, absolutely cannot believe that the most globally consequential World Cup match that involved non-reciprocal mutuality was Match 69
On principle, I reject the use of the mixing wand that comes with blenders. Either the blades get it or they don't, it's not like your car comes with a hang glider.
Had the time of my life, one of the most incredible football matches I've ever had the privilege to witness. Commisserations to Iran, mais, allez les Fennecs! Rock Chalk Algeria!
call me an orthodontist the way i keep a lawyer on retainer
the dark money freaks behind the push to eliminate Missouri's income tax have released a new ad, the thesis of which is: Data centers house child pornography--make them pay taxes instead of you!
Opening a competing bakery next to Nothing Bundt Cakes called Wholly Cannoli
Prometheus showing up to a work meeting with humans 30min late but it's okay because he brought fire
Barista just thanked me for Uptown Funk and 24K Magic wtf
--changed password 3 days early --clicked to notify myself when my password would expire next --notification sent straight to my e-mail --received an auto-reply out-of-office note --...from (and to) myself
art school student with the john belushi Animal House sweater but it says COLLAGE
