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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen)

@clberner.bsky.social

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phd candidate, theatre artist, flop collector. i write about commercial failure(s), megamusicals, and neoliberalism. ask me about the 1986 musical RAGS. she/her/hers

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.”

Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 5h

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)

www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16h

objectively, yes. subjectively...i graduated in 2016 *and* 2018, and it's been pain every single day since

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16h

go cats 🐯✌️🤡

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16h

cbb is so fun, i'm about to watch my alma mater get owned by a bunch of mormons

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 2d

yes!! plus molasses to rum and the discordant bells at the end go *hard*

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 2d

(there’s a lot to be said for 1776 as a revolution-era musical anyway, but its philadelphianess is up there lmao)

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 2d

it was not at all relevant to my research, but i for sure footnoted it anyway lmao

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 2d

in the annotated libretto, lin manuel miranda points this out—iirc he ranks nyc behind boston at the time too, but its been since i wrote my ma thesis in 2018 so i cant confirm

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 2d

i love that we all hate this together ❤️

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 2d

“In my country, South Korea, literature must be easy, with no exceptions. A reader must grasp the meaning at once. Otherwise, the book won’t sell. It won’t be read. Poetry, too, must be simple.”
thebaffler.com/salvos/brain-rot-without-borders

Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum

There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.

thebaffler.com

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 2d

remember kids: it’s *not* turkey lurkey time until santa arrives to macy’s

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 3d

wish that were me, every man in my family went to father judge 😭

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 3d

father judge will come up in the first two minutes of any conversation with any guy who went to father judge, too

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 3d

doing the classic new yorker in fall thing and romanticizing my life

a tan chihuahua walking on a tree-lined street in brooklyn, the sun peeking between the orange leaves

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 4d

hot girls with post migraine syndrome for zohran

selfie of me, a white woman in big red glasses with dark, medium length, slightly damp hair. no makeup and looking tired as hell. i’m holding up a pink water bottle covered in stickers, showcasing a black and orange “halloween voter 2025” with a picture of a trick-or-treating pigeon in the center

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 4d

omg, how VERY wool

Jennifer Griffin Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 5d

Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 5d

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 7d

it’s wild that rodgers and hammerstein put out a press release 80+ years ago saying “we have invented a brand new thing, the integrated musical play” and that’s been basically uncritically reprinted ever since

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 8d

on the list of things i will extremely literally Die Mad About

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 9d

middle schoolers yelling “yo dickhead” are this country’s strongest soldiers and its not particularly close

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casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 10d

my childhood dog bit my uncle in the ass and no one got even a little mad at the dog. rip boomer, you were so real for that

Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · Aug 30

I don't need the lore behind your favorite posters... tell me about your uncles

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 10d

jaquel spivey AND handsome as hell from diana the musical in this screenshot, i am SEATED

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 10d

QUEENS OF THE DEAD is a campy, zombie horror comedy, and it also happens to be the movie we need in 2025.

How A Zombie Disco Movie Became The Most Important Thing I’ve Seen This Year

QUEENS OF THE DEAD is a campy, zombie horror comedy, and it also happens to be the movie we need in 2025.

dlvr.it

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 11d

doyle girlmore girls meet me in shubert alley, i just wanna talk

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11d

As a friend commented (and he can and should grab public credit if he desires), "It's an interesting choice for someone who doesn't like Chess to rewrite it."

casey (not yet turkey lurkey flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 11d

returning to my roots

a screenshot of my lock screen from moments before this skeet was posted. i am most of the way through “Pretty Pretty Girl” from Diana the Musical. the album art is an inky blue impression of princess diana’s face on a white background. i will not hear criticism of my choices