Alana Tomato (evil)
@maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social
TALL BRUNETTE
NICE BUT ODD; CONSCIENTIOUS
AREAS OF INTEREST: Education, Arts & Culture, World Systems Theory, Found/Appropriative Poetics, The Black Radical Tradition, Comics, Melville, Modernism, Feminism, Water, Film, "Anything I can look at carefully"
NICE BUT ODD; CONSCIENTIOUS
AREAS OF INTEREST: Education, Arts & Culture, World Systems Theory, Found/Appropriative Poetics, The Black Radical Tradition, Comics, Melville, Modernism, Feminism, Water, Film, "Anything I can look at carefully"
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what if there was a max fleischer style cartoon where everyone was doing their groovy little movements and then one guy came in and walked totally normal
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
what if there was a max fleischer style cartoon where everyone was doing their groovy little movements and then one guy came in and walked totally normal
just watched THE GRINCH THAT STOLE BITCHES on tubi. I don't like thinking about grinch sex that much. But that's my problem, not the movie's: I am the one that put a movie by that title on.
December 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
just watched THE GRINCH THAT STOLE BITCHES on tubi. I don't like thinking about grinch sex that much. But that's my problem, not the movie's: I am the one that put a movie by that title on.
basically, if I think I can get away with doing something weird in a seminar paper, then I am going to do it
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
basically, if I think I can get away with doing something weird in a seminar paper, then I am going to do it
On the phone with J—— and M——, who tell me that they have been watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. "I like it," says M——, "because it's like SESAME STREET for adults."
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
On the phone with J—— and M——, who tell me that they have been watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. "I like it," says M——, "because it's like SESAME STREET for adults."
I do all of my citations manually because I am a freak, very powerful, or a very powerful freak depending on who you ask.
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I do all of my citations manually because I am a freak, very powerful, or a very powerful freak depending on who you ask.
new display name ought to clarify a few things
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
new display name ought to clarify a few things
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Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) Sir Edwin Landseer
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) Sir Edwin Landseer
I'm strategic about whether I describe my doctoral research topic as being primarily about modernism or as being primarily about comics depending on what I think will be more impressive to whomever it is I'm speaking with at the time.
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm strategic about whether I describe my doctoral research topic as being primarily about modernism or as being primarily about comics depending on what I think will be more impressive to whomever it is I'm speaking with at the time.
Joan Didion's "Martha Stewart: Girlboss" essay is famously ridiculous but tbh watching Stewart on teeveedoes trigger some kind of primal "Yes bitch!!" reflex from deep in my lizard brain. Like the sheer level of contempt she shows to everybody she interacts with except Snoop Dogg...
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Joan Didion's "Martha Stewart: Girlboss" essay is famously ridiculous but tbh watching Stewart on teeveedoes trigger some kind of primal "Yes bitch!!" reflex from deep in my lizard brain. Like the sheer level of contempt she shows to everybody she interacts with except Snoop Dogg...
Martha you know I love you but you are walking down roads I cannot follow
Martha Stewart has revealed how she eats bagels and I am speechless
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Martha you know I love you but you are walking down roads I cannot follow
I'm partnering with nobody in particular to announce nothing. Thank you.
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm partnering with nobody in particular to announce nothing. Thank you.
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uncle political compass with axes "cryptic - overt" and "beer - weed"
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
uncle political compass with axes "cryptic - overt" and "beer - weed"
favorite simple machine has got to be the inclined plane. classic for a reason
December 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
favorite simple machine has got to be the inclined plane. classic for a reason
me when it's time
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
me when it's time
I don't like how the teacher swivels her head all the way around like an owl... I don't think teachers should be able to do that.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 09,1939
December 09,1939
December 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I don't like how the teacher swivels her head all the way around like an owl... I don't think teachers should be able to do that.
My mom works as an electrolysist in regionally important midsized American city and she's always telling me about the trans women she meets doing that. "You'd like So-and-so," she says; "You'd like Whosits." And I'm always like, Yeah Ma I probably would.
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
My mom works as an electrolysist in regionally important midsized American city and she's always telling me about the trans women she meets doing that. "You'd like So-and-so," she says; "You'd like Whosits." And I'm always like, Yeah Ma I probably would.
the REAL "tiger king" is the traveling ascetic who saves the tiger and leads it on an inward journey of spiritual transformation in R. K. Narayan's 1983 novel A TIGER FOR MALGUDI !
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
the REAL "tiger king" is the traveling ascetic who saves the tiger and leads it on an inward journey of spiritual transformation in R. K. Narayan's 1983 novel A TIGER FOR MALGUDI !
not for nothing does Dewey also turn to weather reportage when he theorizes found and appropriative poetics in ART AS EXPERIENCE
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
not for nothing does Dewey also turn to weather reportage when he theorizes found and appropriative poetics in ART AS EXPERIENCE
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I don't like the Kenneth Goldsmith schtick—and I say this as somebody with a vested theoretical and practical interest in found and appropriative poetics—but even I must admit that his weather report book kicks ass, if only because it's very fun to read weather reports
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I don't like the Kenneth Goldsmith schtick—and I say this as somebody with a vested theoretical and practical interest in found and appropriative poetics—but even I must admit that his weather report book kicks ass, if only because it's very fun to read weather reports
the main quality I look for in a potential husband or wife is whether they will sit with me and listen to the weather
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the main quality I look for in a potential husband or wife is whether they will sit with me and listen to the weather
calling the other grad students "my coworkers" instead of "my classmates"
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
calling the other grad students "my coworkers" instead of "my classmates"
reminding the other grad students that no, I wasn't an english major; I dropped out of a crappy ag school's nursing program, so I don't actually have much sense of what an undergraduate english education is like either in terms of individual classes or the degree as a whole
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
reminding the other grad students that no, I wasn't an english major; I dropped out of a crappy ag school's nursing program, so I don't actually have much sense of what an undergraduate english education is like either in terms of individual classes or the degree as a whole
It takes a lot of gall to write aphorisms
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It takes a lot of gall to write aphorisms
every time you have ever posted a wojak, an imaged derived from wojak, or even an image containing a wojak, you have lost a small part of your soul. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, especially as someone whose soul remains intact, but that stuff does not grow back. It's like hearing loss.
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
every time you have ever posted a wojak, an imaged derived from wojak, or even an image containing a wojak, you have lost a small part of your soul. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, especially as someone whose soul remains intact, but that stuff does not grow back. It's like hearing loss.