Ethan Campbell
@profgawain.bsky.social
Former English professor, medievalist, editor, writer. Books: The Gawain-Poet and Anticlericalism (2018); The English Apocalypse (2024): https://isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=184714.
Even the church that invented the Inquisition is like, "Whoa, this might be a little much for this day and age."
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 3d agoFull story — with additional condemnation from the National Association of Evangelicals — here: religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
No disrespect to the singers, who were good, but they should've just played Mariah Carey's tracks. #dwts
They keep trying to downplay that Jenna Dewan is already a professional dancer (okay, not in ballroom, sure), and then Val weeps when he meets her and calls her an "icon in this space," and gives away the game. 😂 #dwts
Now it's clear why they separated the men and women ... if they'd gone together, two men would've been eliminated. The women are significantly better. #dwts
Correction: ALMOST beat them. I guess the refs decided to rob WMU instead. Oh well, they still have the coolest medieval conference, and the swans, and Bell's, and Bilbo's Pizza. #wmu #icms #kalamazoo
Ethan Campbell@profgawain.bsky.social · last mo.Yes, medievalists on Bluesky, THAT Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo just beat Michigan at football. #icms #kzooicms
LOL, between Ricketts and Pillen ads and a godawful defense, Nebraska's not exactly showing its best on national TV this afternoon. (I'm watching in Brooklyn, NY.)
kyleraiser: Bloodline@kylebutoverhere.bsky.social · last mo.Losing and I have to see Pete Ricketts already? Not loving all of this
This is my once-in-four-years reminder that I really don’t understand soccer. Why do they all writhe in pain at the slightest touch? Why don’t they know how to stop a clock? I just googled “what is offsides in soccer,” and the answer was a bunch of gobbledygook. #WorldCup
Maybe it’s the American in me, but I don’t think this 0-0 game has been ruined by a little entertainment from the Muppets and Shakira. 😂 #WorldCup
Some book mail came today, from @modernlanguage.bsky.social ... my essay on "teaching Arthur through Shakespeare" in the anthology "Teaching the Arthurian Tradition," edited by Dorsey Armstrong and Arielle C. McKee. On sale May 29!
I have a chapter on teaching Arthurian literature through Shakespeare's King Lear in this new anthology from @modernlanguage.bsky.social -- "Teaching the Arthurian Tradition," edited by Dorsey Armstrong and Arielle McKee. Available (at long last) on May 29th! www.mla.org/Publications...
Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
From the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have prompted readers to contemplate leadership and community, love and loyalty, the spiritual realm, and more, and the tales ...
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I second Emily's recommendation for this show that's running just one more week at TFANA in Brooklyn. Seriously one of the best Shakespeare-related productions I've ever seen (and I've seen hundreds of them!).
Gremliny Nussboo@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhile I’m rec’ing things, I want to mention a cool show at the Polonsky Shakespeare Theater w a short run: Theatro de Plaza’s Hamlet, performed in Spanish (with subtitles) by a troupe of actors with Down Syndrome. I was worried it might be preachy or pretentious, but it’s NOT —it’s exhilarating
The reason America is broken is largely because something has become broken in the American Church.
Short time ago at the Whipple federal building just outside of Minneapolis. Homeland Security police and Border Patrol officers chase down and arrest a protester.
I like literary fiction, but honestly, the list of Bram Stoker Award nominees is just as interesting as the Pulitzer Prize.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 10mo agoMaybe today is the day we also have a conversation about the word “genre” and how a lot of horror is better than the stuff that gets counted as “real cinema” and a lot of SFF writing is higher quality literature than some of the shit publishers call “literary fiction” Stop being snobby shits
Every once in a while, I just marvel that we live in an era where the author who wrote the scripts to half our nightmares as kids, and made millions of us want to become writers, is just out here giving his takes on music and bantering with folks.
Stephen King@stephenking.bsky.social · 11mo agoChicago. The world loves their music. I don’t.
My weekly ten votes for Andy Richter have saved him again, I see #DWTS
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and clapping
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and clapping
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A wonderfully descriptive article by Carson Vaughan, with some great photography, about the part of the world where I grew up. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...
Floating the Lazy Rivers of Nebraska’s Spring-Fed Water World
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Pearl Jam’s “Animal” was the perfect needle-drop for the final scene of Alien: Earth. But I didn’t realize *how* perfect it was until I played the song on my phone … and remembered the cover art for that album was an angry sheep. 😂
One of my favorite etymologies. It's wild to think that in the 1940s, cartoon viewers might hear Elmer Fudd called a "nimrod" and think, "Hilarious, an ironic reference to the mighty hunter from Genesis!" Just a different world.
Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · last yr.I was delighted to learn, long ago (but was just reminded of it), that the transition of "nimrod" from the biblical mighty warrior to our modern-day maroon meaning derives from Looney Tunes.
