Kyle Stedman
@kstedman.bsky.social
English professor at Rockford University // sound & music // creative nonfiction // IP & remix & fair use // family & local history // weirdly deep dives into learning // coauthor of Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects (Broadview).
As I get older, I increasingly wonder if any other piece of media works on me personally like Star Wars: Ep. 1.
I was 18 when it came out, after years of reading news, buying toys, anticipating. I love the soundtrack. And the art! The cast! It's a total dream.
But it's such a very, very bad movie.
I was 18 when it came out, after years of reading news, buying toys, anticipating. I love the soundtrack. And the art! The cast! It's a total dream.
But it's such a very, very bad movie.
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As I get older, I increasingly wonder if any other piece of media works on me personally like Star Wars: Ep. 1.
I was 18 when it came out, after years of reading news, buying toys, anticipating. I love the soundtrack. And the art! The cast! It's a total dream.
But it's such a very, very bad movie.
I was 18 when it came out, after years of reading news, buying toys, anticipating. I love the soundtrack. And the art! The cast! It's a total dream.
But it's such a very, very bad movie.
College students are so great.
That's it; that's the tweet.
That's it; that's the tweet.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
College students are so great.
That's it; that's the tweet.
That's it; that's the tweet.
Look I know the world is falling apart in every way but can I at least be happy that this $2 CD has the magic ability to get me through the end of a long afternoon?
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Look I know the world is falling apart in every way but can I at least be happy that this $2 CD has the magic ability to get me through the end of a long afternoon?
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Woodhouse Mill, painting by Yorkshire artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Woodhouse Mill, painting by Yorkshire artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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so dishonored in the court
September 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
so dishonored in the court
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Microwaving leftover pizza is an act of cruel optimism. Eating cold pizza is an act of reasonably attainable vice.
September 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Microwaving leftover pizza is an act of cruel optimism. Eating cold pizza is an act of reasonably attainable vice.
So apparently this album was written to simulate the artist's experience doing LSD in the forest, something I don't know anything about—but listening to this ambient song in headphones affects my body in strange ways: tingling, heaviness, etc. Unexpectedly powerful. open.spotify.com/track/4EIGit...
Pop 3
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September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So apparently this album was written to simulate the artist's experience doing LSD in the forest, something I don't know anything about—but listening to this ambient song in headphones affects my body in strange ways: tingling, heaviness, etc. Unexpectedly powerful. open.spotify.com/track/4EIGit...
It's a little hard for me to believe that there was a time when people got meaningful office work done without access to recordings of Bach's cello suites.
September 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's a little hard for me to believe that there was a time when people got meaningful office work done without access to recordings of Bach's cello suites.
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse than Death, beginning of chapter IV, p. 49.
August 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse than Death, beginning of chapter IV, p. 49.
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i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age
August 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age
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thanks to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social you can now read through the entire run of one of the first video game magazines ever made
Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda
Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.
www.404media.co
August 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
thanks to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social you can now read through the entire run of one of the first video game magazines ever made
It happened again: I thought I could listen to Purity Ring while doing academic reading, but the music is just too too too captivating.
August 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It happened again: I thought I could listen to Purity Ring while doing academic reading, but the music is just too too too captivating.
Some of you, if you were revising an ugly 2014 video about rhetorical analysis for a student audience, would just start from scratch and make it look better, but haha nope I just rerecorded the narration and slapped it over the same PowerPoint visuals, too bad so sad: youtu.be/briea0LAfqI?...
What is a Rhetorical Analysis? (NEW narration in 2025)
YouTube video by Kyle Stedman
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July 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some of you, if you were revising an ugly 2014 video about rhetorical analysis for a student audience, would just start from scratch and make it look better, but haha nope I just rerecorded the narration and slapped it over the same PowerPoint visuals, too bad so sad: youtu.be/briea0LAfqI?...
Ah yes, I see, the life pattern is "listens to the score for The Crow because it's dark and moody" to "rolls eyes at young me for always liking things that were so dark and moody lol" to "hey this score is actually really good, should never have packed that CD away for so long."
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ah yes, I see, the life pattern is "listens to the score for The Crow because it's dark and moody" to "rolls eyes at young me for always liking things that were so dark and moody lol" to "hey this score is actually really good, should never have packed that CD away for so long."
I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?
July 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?
Here's Kurt Vonnegut, speaking in 1974.
July 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Here's Kurt Vonnegut, speaking in 1974.
I am so remarkably excited to learn that Jennifer Kabat has a new memoir out. _The Eighth Moon_ changed me deeply; can't wait to dive into that voice and place again.
"When you live in a place, you develop relationships with things in your environment. This feels true for me with the plants that I encounter. There’s this kind of magic hemlock forest that I live on the edge of. When you observe another creature intimately, it becomes a familiar."
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Jennifer Kabat Discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Caused Her Town’s Catastrophic Flood - Electric Literature
The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers
electricliterature.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I am so remarkably excited to learn that Jennifer Kabat has a new memoir out. _The Eighth Moon_ changed me deeply; can't wait to dive into that voice and place again.
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In light the Supreme Court decision on banning transgender care (🙄😒😑) this podcast series seemed cool. I only have listened to part one. Can also be found wherever else you listen to podcasts. Of course.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Protocol
Society & Culture Podcast · Series · A six-part podcast exploring the story of medical treatment for transgender young people — how the care began, the lives it changed, and the legal and political fi...
podcasts.apple.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In light the Supreme Court decision on banning transgender care (🙄😒😑) this podcast series seemed cool. I only have listened to part one. Can also be found wherever else you listen to podcasts. Of course.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
After a hard day (for me and the world), I watched the Strange New Worlds musical episode and am happy to report that it's still amazing, and is a helpful, emotional catharsis. Reporting in case it might help you, too.
June 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
After a hard day (for me and the world), I watched the Strange New Worlds musical episode and am happy to report that it's still amazing, and is a helpful, emotional catharsis. Reporting in case it might help you, too.
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The speed with which the country is disassembling! I keep wondering how the regime thinks the US will function without Black and brown people, in a white fantasia. The people left won’t be able to feed themselves, heal themselves, build their homes, or flavor their food. What a choice!
June 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The speed with which the country is disassembling! I keep wondering how the regime thinks the US will function without Black and brown people, in a white fantasia. The people left won’t be able to feed themselves, heal themselves, build their homes, or flavor their food. What a choice!
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
But the thing is, there is so much good music.
June 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
But the thing is, there is so much good music.