further evidence that Shelby the 13 year old whippet is my biological child: she always eats her first chicken tender in the formal living room and the escapes to the bedroom to enjoy her second chicken tender in private.
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my dog is obsessed with doing bits but it is always the same bit and the bit is theatrically manifesting nonexistent symptoms
not to brag but my hepatic whippet met her 700 calorie goal for the day AND more than 1/3 of those calories were from food designed for canine consumption (entrees, not treats).
one time the menu featured "trout with accoutrements" and my friend asked the server: "how is the trout accoutered?
obsessed with food content that is like: if you like dirty martinis, you'll LOVE this fentanyl crock pot chicken with olives
people who are light in your loafers: where are you buying your loafers?
Do you think Julianne Moore would want to star in a movie about a professor who emptied her retirement account to buy flank steak for her aging whippet?
Three rewatches later, I have something to say I don't think Lorelai was mad at Rory for sleeping with Dean because he was married. I think she was mad at her for NOT sleeping with him the previous episode (following their completion of an excellent appetizer sampler platter).
one of the saddest ironies of higher ed's headlong embrace of AI is that the clearest and most thorough reporting on the subject has been done almost exclusively by student journalists
Sarah Osment@smosment.bsky.social · 6d agothose who work in University writing programs should pay close attention—developing AI-friendly teaching doesn't make you safe from layoff www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Today in exciting whippet news: Shelby is down to 5mg of prednisone once per day (4 weeks ago, she was on 10mg twice a day) AND can go off Prilosec. This *also* means she is down to needing meds only once per day. Little victories even as the comically intense caloric intake surveillance continues
not to brag, but there is now a massage therapist in South Bend who does NOT work out of a Ruth's Chris Steak House
It was actually a a For Good/My Favorite Things medley. RIP
Patrick McKelvey@pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 2w agoA day of so many travels misadventures I’m becoming undone. Apologies in advance to the person I’ve decided to make the sole target of my rage: the twink playing For Good on a baby grand piano in the Charlotte airport food court.
A day of so many travels misadventures I’m becoming undone. Apologies in advance to the person I’ve decided to make the sole target of my rage: the twink playing For Good on a baby grand piano in the Charlotte airport food court.
An elder Italianx woman at a vaguely fancy restaurant offered us her leftover shishito peppers. When we politely declined, she screamed: I’M JUST TRYING TO PAY IT FORWARD! (Maybe she heard us discussing the cost of our new roof?)
Thrilled to receive ATHE's 2026 Outstanding Article Award for this piece! (This is the first writing toward what I hope to be book 3, a history of the performance cultures surrounding service dogs in the 20th-21st century US) doi.org/10.1353/tj.2...
Turns out it is easier to write when you are not debilitated by the possible immediacy of whippet mortality and there aren’t people hammering on your roof twelve hours a day.
Excited to see this excerpt from *Provoking Religion* in the Pittsburgh Review of Books today! #culturewars #art
The Catholic Provocations of Renée Cox - Pittsburgh Review of Books
On Tuesday, February 20, 2001, photographer Renée Cox joined the stage to debate William Donohue, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil
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the key to a good syllabus is writing it in the optimal environment. that's why I'm doing it between spoon-feeding goat milk to my hepatic whippet out of fiesta ware while my roof gets replaced at a time when vegetables are on track to kill you.
it's a monday morning in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send! against-a-i.com
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me tracking my whippet's caloric intake to make sure she hits 850 calories per day until she's back up to her goal weight (no thanks to her liver's antiwork politics)
While we've long been aware that Shelby (13 year old whippet) has grown accustomed to various bourgeois niceties, it did not occur to us until she started a diet consisting primarily of ground beef and boiled chicken that she thought we were middle class enough for her to not like leftovers.
Look at that collective action at Yale! And good on faculty at other institutions for sharing what they've learned!
Anthony says I'm not allowed to choose which movie we watch because I'll "just choose some Barbara Stanwyck movie from 1912 about how Barbara Stanwyck received a telegram."
thrilled to announce my whippet, Shelby, does NOT have advanced spleen cancer as our former vet (may she never know peace) suggested. after consulting a new vet for a second opinion and more rigorous testing, she seems to have a chronic immune condition that is manageable with steroids.
Not gay as in happy queer as in giving my elderly dog a lean ground beef flight featuring morsels of different lean-to-fat ratios to see what she likes best