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Sunny Stalter-Pace

@slstalter.bsky.social

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English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress: The New York Hippodrome: A Kaleidoscopic Cultural History. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Here it is, folks: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/hippodr...

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

Yay, 10k words played in Spelling Bee! Many of them by my 12yo, who tries to get as far as he can without playing 4 letter words. Please share 🐝 stats and quirks if you are inclined.

Statistics from the NYT puzzles page for Spelling Bee: 269 puzzles, 10k words, 366 pangrams, 263 geniuses, 43 queen bees, catalytically is the longest word played.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

I did *not* know that Frankie Goes to Hollywood covered "Born to Run."

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 2d

Our Irish studies guy (now retired) got bugged by the same dude!

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 2d

T.S. Eliot should not be in the Norton Anthology of British Literature. At the very least, nothing that he wrote before 1927 (when he renounced his US citizenship).

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 2d

Finished the new Lockwood, working on the new Pynchon. Both good and very much in their respective wheelhouses.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 2d

She was awesome at the @biographersintl.bsky.social conference a couple years back.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 3d

Yay, so happy for both of them!

Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 3d

You are awake on a Sunday trying desperately not to think about The Horrors

I am awake on a Sunday thinking about The Horrors but ALSO thinking about Alexander Skarsgård coming out as bisexual and how that recontextualizes his longstanding and curious friendship (?) with Jack McBrayer from 30 Rock

Alexander Skarsgård making a kissy face at Jack McBrayer at the 2018 SAG awards where he brought Jack as his date

Another photo of Alexander Skarsgård and Jack McBrayer at the SAG awards. Alexander is smiling at the camera with his arms wrapped around the much shorter Jack McBrayer whose face is scrunched up from laughing

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 3d

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 3d

It's okay, we can be the fake audience you rehearse your grief to. No offense taken. One of the ways that I honor losing my mom is by trying to help people grieve their parents online.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 3d

Cubs!

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 5d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 5d

Omg that sounds divine.

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Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 5d

Reading request! If you could recommend one text that explored the history of an idea/concept in a riveting and surprising way what would it be? Please re-skeet if you can. I know this is a niche ask.

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Hank Willenbrink @hwillenbrink.bsky.social · 5d

Performance scholars get on this! It's so ripe. #AcademicSky
Amazing reporting from @thedialmag.bsky.social.

www.thedial.world/articles/new...

What’s Going On at Beijing’s “Fake Offices”? — The Dial

Lavender Au reports on the rise of “pretend to work” offices.

www.thedial.world

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 5d

First two chapters were genuinely disorienting, the rest slightly more accessible but choppy autofiction/covid memoir/ meditation on art and the making of it.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 7d

Wow I think I'll need to read Will There Ever Be Another You? in small bites because it's making me feel a little bit dissociative myself.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 6d

Finding joy where I can, "hyperbolic vituperations" is an amazing phrase.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 6d

Our 12yo enjoyed Rushmore but somehow preferred Phoenician Scheme.

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 6d

Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski, who previously was an NYT theater critic like the main character

Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 6d

So that's a decent phonetic approximation? Because it's something I really treasure.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 6d

The way that little old ladies who lived there all their lives say it -- "mn-gum-reh"? -- is marvelous.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

If we’re talking regionally, “Mobile” and “Montgomery” are big ones

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Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social · 7d

1901. Buffalo. Come ride "A Trip to the Moon."

Board a winged airship. Let Fred Thompson and Skip Dundy convey you from Niagara Falls to the Kingdom of the Moon. Meet the tiny Selenites.

Students of amusement rides, & of Moon travel pop culture, know of this, but this photo is new to me.

Photo with handwritten caption reading: "C - Gorga; A Trip to the Moon; Copyright 1901 by Frederic Thompson." It depicts several persons within a cave-like tunnel, a theatrical set representing an underground city on the Moon. Actors representing one tall man and six little men are dressed in costumes including boots, tights, baggy shorts, tight-fitting shirts, and shiny helmets. From The New York Public Library Digital Collections. The NYPL entitles this photo "Gorge - A Trip to the Moon," but I think Thompson's handwriting looks more like "Gorga." I could be wrong.

Image of caption text, accompanying the photo I have also attached to this tweet. Both the photo, which is in the public domain, and the caption have been provided by the New York Public Library Digital Collection. Quoting: For the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American exposition, [Frederic] Thompson first teamed up with rival showman Elmer "Skip" Dundy. It was here that they first took their visitors on "A Trip to the Moon". Thompson & Dundy’s amusement was strongly inspired by H.G. Wells' science fiction story "The First Men in the Moon", which had been published in serial form in Cosmopolitan some months before the Pan-American fair. The amusement would later become the cornerstone of Luna Park. "A Trip to the Moon" used modern technologies such as electricity, illumination and hydraulics to give its customers the sensation of flying in a winged ship. Upon arrival, visitors could actually participate in the theatrical setting depicting the Kingdom of the Man in the Moon. There, they viewed a musical show and the monstrous "Moon Calf", sampled green cheese offered by the midget population, and shopped in a lunar marketplace.

Detail from photo of "A Trip to the Moon" by Frederic Thompson. This version has been enhanced by contrast stretching. It depicts several persons within a cave-like tunnel, a theatrical set representing an underground city on the Moon. Actors representing one tall man and six little men are dressed in costumes including boots, tights, baggy shorts, tight-fitting shirts, and shiny helmets. From The New York Public Library Digital Collections. The NYPL entitles this photo "Gorge - A Trip to the Moon."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Freida Parton says she did not mean to scare anyone when asking for prayers for her older sister, Dolly:

Freida Parton
“I want to clear something up. I didn't mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Sunny Stalter-Pace @slstalter.bsky.social · 7d

Wow I think I'll need to read Will There Ever Be Another You? in small bites because it's making me feel a little bit dissociative myself.