can't let this outfit go unseen! For the Highline Foundation fundraiser this past weekend the dress code was "intergalactic chic"...nailed it!

I'm often looking for discussions of analysis and synthesis in my reading. So my book margins are filled with "anal/syn" 😁

just watched the latest John Oliver on public media and was very pleased to see them citing @joshshepperd.bsky.social's book, Shadow of the New Deal! 🥳 Josh was kind enough to talk to my "Media Matters" class last year...happy to see that his work is having a meaningful impact! Congrats, Josh!

I might be stuck, but on the bright side, how many books could have possibly been published in 2007-08?

worst 5 movie genres:

-philosophical movies that try to be philosophical
-uncharismatic bad guys
-last two hours are completely undermined by a "twist"
-children saving the day
-musicals

if all the books i wanted to save for later are from 2007–08, does that mean i will forever be stuck in the late aughts? will i just be rockin' In Rainbows and Sounds of the Universe for the rest of my days?

when do we revise the little rhetoric triangle to include "robot overlord"?

For ICE, "an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is [considered] a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status," & any other evidence (incl birth certificate) is irrelevant if the app returns a positive match. Who made the app? What databases does it use? How does it work? Nobody knows

are "easter eggs" (in games) a good analogy for talking about subtle or hidden ideas in texts? or is this too loose?

folks who've dismissed the idea that "there won't be another election" need to think about that phrase a little more broadly. Voter suppression is not new and it is easy to scale up. The conditions are being set in place:

2045, somewhere in Portland:
"Those dinosaur costumes are how your mother and I fought fascism, son."

I feared for the VA and vets when the president was elected. Naively, I did not imagine this scenario. I don't know what it will take to convince the country as a whole that this administration does not care about the *people* who actually serve, past and present, in the military.

"A White House spokeswoman...said in a statement that 'any university that refuses this ***once-in-a-lifetime opportunity*** to transform higher education isn’t serving its students or their parents...'" I mean, if they're not going to throw in a free oven mitt...

my work meeting just ended with reminiscing over the great Twitter battles of yore: the oxford coma, should we go by our first names in the classroom, and dunking on ooo (not really a battle so much as a pile-on). to better days.

besides book reviews (which I love, don't get me wrong), I've been in a bit of a publishing slump. But just returned final proofs on two new articles on math and literature this week—one of which will be freely available online! I'll post details once it's live. :)

just remembered i have zero followers, so I'm not sure who I think is going to respond to that first post. :(

rhet-comp folks: Anyone have a rec for a good first-year writing-level essay on bibliography/citation? rn I'm using McKittrick's, "Footnotes," from Dear Science. A colleague who observed my class thought this was too hard. :( I may not change but I'm open to suggestions