Also a dope.

It’s made mine worse. But I teach English, so that’s to be expected.

My partner’s PhD was on Cronenberg.

You’d think that would be the end of him. But no, the GOP nods and smiles.

I’ll take “things I never thought I’d read” for 800, Alex.

That’s all?

Seems like an easy way to put an end to a cancer that affects men and women (see Michael Douglas). But it also means accepting that people have sex.

We’re a stupid bunch.

Jane Allison is great!

Will do!

Liberty for me but not for thee.

As a nerdy, bookish type, it's galling to admit that the jocks were right about something, but yes, exercise has changed my life for the better.

"AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education." The full report is too much for them, but that piece they can manage. It's one of several discussions of generative AI in higher education I'm asking them to read as background for a discussion of a poem by Joseph Fasano.

Oh! I’ve assigned something you cowrote to my students—they’re supposed to write a response.

With alt text.

Roast them in olive oil with cloves of garlic.

Nobody ever listened to us.

It’d be the world’s biggest smudge.