That Paul Moffett
@doctormoffett.bsky.social
Medieval Arthurian scholar and sessional instructor at Memorial U of Newfoundland. Principal of Clockworks Academy.
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Rough week. Six writing rejections in three days.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Rough week. Six writing rejections in three days.
That's why I don't think of it.
a man laying in a coffin next to another man with a sword
Alt: A clip from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Tim Roth's Guildenstern watches Gary Oldman's Rosencrantz as the latter says "Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air. You'd wake up dead, for a start, and then where would you be? In a box. That's the bit I don't like frankly.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
That's why I don't think of it.
Tom Stoppard died! What an enormous talent he was!
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of my all-time favourite things to be written. I first encountered it as a movie and it is my favourite movie still. I've never seen the play performed, but I re-read it often. I'll read it today.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of my all-time favourite things to be written. I first encountered it as a movie and it is my favourite movie still. I've never seen the play performed, but I re-read it often. I'll read it today.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Tom Stoppard died! What an enormous talent he was!
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of my all-time favourite things to be written. I first encountered it as a movie and it is my favourite movie still. I've never seen the play performed, but I re-read it often. I'll read it today.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of my all-time favourite things to be written. I first encountered it as a movie and it is my favourite movie still. I've never seen the play performed, but I re-read it often. I'll read it today.
I've never made a post on social media that wasn't embarrassing.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I've never made a post on social media that wasn't embarrassing.
It seems like a serious perennial problem that ideas, thoughts, stories, insights, perspectives all come from people, and people are so frequently disappointing.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It seems like a serious perennial problem that ideas, thoughts, stories, insights, perspectives all come from people, and people are so frequently disappointing.
I don't know, man.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I don't know, man.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO
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November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Listening to the new American Medieval Podcast with interest. There are some folks I recognize involved. My trepidation is on the "American" side of things though. It feels VERY American filter the entire universe through a "this is all about me right?" lens.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Listening to the new American Medieval Podcast with interest. There are some folks I recognize involved. My trepidation is on the "American" side of things though. It feels VERY American filter the entire universe through a "this is all about me right?" lens.
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
One of the weirdest stances I regularly see is "don't burden me with educating you!" said by people who have "educator" on their business cards.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
One of the weirdest stances I regularly see is "don't burden me with educating you!" said by people who have "educator" on their business cards.
I love Guillermo del Toro, and I have thought a lot about Frankenstein (take the Frankenstein Course at Clockworks Academy: clockworksacademy.com/courses/frankenstein-course). I have some thoughts about the new movie. No spoilers (or only very vague ones).
Frankenstein Course — Clockworks Academy
An eight week course on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: a quintessential gothic novel, a foundational text in the history of science fiction, and a gripping monster story. It is beautiful, horrible, and ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love Guillermo del Toro, and I have thought a lot about Frankenstein (take the Frankenstein Course at Clockworks Academy: clockworksacademy.com/courses/frankenstein-course). I have some thoughts about the new movie. No spoilers (or only very vague ones).
There is some irony here.
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There is some irony here.
Do you think modern tech savvy Will O' The Wisps manifest as gps directing people into dead ends and canals and such?
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Do you think modern tech savvy Will O' The Wisps manifest as gps directing people into dead ends and canals and such?
If we're going to have handy mnemonics to help us to remember dates there should be one for February 29th. I think people are far more likely to forget that one than the fifth of November.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If we're going to have handy mnemonics to help us to remember dates there should be one for February 29th. I think people are far more likely to forget that one than the fifth of November.
Oh no! I forgot the fifth of November!
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Oh no! I forgot the fifth of November!
I don't really follow sports, but I hear the Maple Leafs are doing well.
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don't really follow sports, but I hear the Maple Leafs are doing well.
Fun connections today!
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Fun connections today!
I've seen a few mentions of a new show called "Welcome to Derry". A prequel series to "Derry Girls" I assume!
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I've seen a few mentions of a new show called "Welcome to Derry". A prequel series to "Derry Girls" I assume!
As a math tutor, I am begging teachers and textbooks to just hold off for a SECOND at making everything an acronym. Don't call it GCF and LCM until the kids at least have some idea what a factor is, and what a multiple is. Please. For the love.
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As a math tutor, I am begging teachers and textbooks to just hold off for a SECOND at making everything an acronym. Don't call it GCF and LCM until the kids at least have some idea what a factor is, and what a multiple is. Please. For the love.
Also I just watched an episode of Strange New Worlds that is basically exactly the same as this, but with Ortegas and a Gorn instead. It was pretty good, but it maybe doesn't make quite as much sense for pilot Ortegas to jury-rig stuff as for engineer LaForge.
TNG rewatch 307 - The Enemy
Immediately after the last Geordi episode, we have another Geordi episode! And the last one was all about how he can't relate to women because they're too foreign, but this one is all about him relating to a Romulan because he's so personable.
Immediately after the last Geordi episode, we have another Geordi episode! And the last one was all about how he can't relate to women because they're too foreign, but this one is all about him relating to a Romulan because he's so personable.
October 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Also I just watched an episode of Strange New Worlds that is basically exactly the same as this, but with Ortegas and a Gorn instead. It was pretty good, but it maybe doesn't make quite as much sense for pilot Ortegas to jury-rig stuff as for engineer LaForge.
TNG rewatch 307 - The Enemy
Immediately after the last Geordi episode, we have another Geordi episode! And the last one was all about how he can't relate to women because they're too foreign, but this one is all about him relating to a Romulan because he's so personable.
Immediately after the last Geordi episode, we have another Geordi episode! And the last one was all about how he can't relate to women because they're too foreign, but this one is all about him relating to a Romulan because he's so personable.
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
TNG rewatch 307 - The Enemy
Immediately after the last Geordi episode, we have another Geordi episode! And the last one was all about how he can't relate to women because they're too foreign, but this one is all about him relating to a Romulan because he's so personable.
Immediately after the last Geordi episode, we have another Geordi episode! And the last one was all about how he can't relate to women because they're too foreign, but this one is all about him relating to a Romulan because he's so personable.
I think I've learned to enjoy editing. This is huge.
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I think I've learned to enjoy editing. This is huge.
Ok I think this is going to make me sound (be?) a little douchy, but I read my play and it made me cry. I was moved to tears by my own writing.
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ok I think this is going to make me sound (be?) a little douchy, but I read my play and it made me cry. I was moved to tears by my own writing.
Got four short story rejections today.
October 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Got four short story rejections today.