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Greg Dember

@gregdember.bsky.social

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Author of Say Hello to Metamodernism! https://amzn.to/4eeuHLN Interests: Most topics, metamodernism, progressive but plays well with others, oddball with a soft spot for normals. Yale. Seattle. Musician/Singer/Songwriter/Writer/Reader/Listener

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What Is Metamodern? @what-is-metamodern.bsky.social · 4d

Our latest!

Labubu, Metamodern Little Monsters and the Contemporary Face of Consumer Cuteness

Labubu has emerged as one of the buzziest Consumer Products of 2025. They’re of interest for how they embody certain aesthetic paradoxes we talk about here at What is Metamodern? ...

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 5d

By new guests, do you mean guests who haven't already been on the podcast before? If that's accurate, that's appalling!
& speaks to maybe this difference:
Left events affirm you're in a place where you and the other good people belong.
Right: you're in an exciting new place where good things happen.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 5d

Indictment of WHO?

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 7d

Ha! If you had male vocal chords at your disposal, you would be the best Trump imitator out there. So great!

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 7d

Whenever MAGAs testify, questions should be framed as "... and if you don't answer yes or no, it will be assumed that your answer is no."

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 10d

I'm an indie rock and classic rock fan and pretty picky about music and not much of a pop fan, and yet I still recognize that Taylor Swift has a bunch of great songs, especially (by my tastes) in her last 4 or 5 albums. I think the people who dismiss her show their own ignorance.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 14d

Out of curiosity, do they come into their interactions with you already knowing that you've left the fold and become a Democrat, or do they expect the Joe Wash who'd they known before?

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 14d

I'm sure he'll go on to something bigger and better. Totally CBS's loss.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 14d

Was he any good at guitar?

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 18d

Do you imagine that the people who are reacting to Trump on Bluesky voted for him?

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 22d

Relevant to me:
Fred Meyer! (shit)
Paramount theater (shit)
Chase (shit)

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 23d

"They" -- ?????

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 25d

This'll cheer you right up!

Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 25d

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

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Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.social · 25d

My upcoming book on Sufjan Stevens' "Carrie & Lowell" is now available for preorder from my favorite bookstore, Powell's Books in Portland. www.powells.com/book/sufjan-...

Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell | Powell's Books

Upon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both...

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 26d

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 28d

Excuse me... you'd have to get up to maybe age 70 to find anyone who talks like that.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 28d

"My love"
"My old man"

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 28d

I'm 60, and while it didn't occur to me that it was fake, I did think "How quaint that the Mormons in Utah still talk like characters on the Andy Griffith Show."

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 29d

Yes, watching Barbarians confirmed that he has some sort of issue with "old" or perhaps "post-sexual" women. (Trying to think of a single category that covers the monster in both movies. I'm certain they belong in a category together but I don't have a pithy term for it.)

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 29d

I experienced the Zach Cregger films exactly like you did! Including watching Barbarians second for the reason you did. In each film he destroys an initially compellingly creepy/scary premise by then providing lazy, meaning-draining answers to the mysteries that underlay the tension he had created.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 29d

The next Congressional elections will in in November of 2026, not this November.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 29d

I mean, for that matter, why do we have a Vice President named "J.D." ?

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · Sep 14

I wrote this metamodern analysis of "Heroes," a short story by O.G. Rose.

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A Metamodern Reading of "Heroes" – Short Story by O.G. Rose

The opening story of Under the Wing, “Heroes,” is available to read online as a kind of teaser for the book, which has given me the wonderful opportunity to write not just a review/preview but an actu...

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 1

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reading and writing race in law and literature

Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · Sep 13

They always talk about "The Radical Left" as if it's the super-scary fringe of the fringe, but then they'll turn around and include Adam Schiff and Gretchen Whitmer in this group.