That is an incredibly generous reading of this announcement!

But not the smoking sections!

Nope. No. Uh-uh.

Ooh. The Edge. Sharp.

Congratulations! Make a list of all the things you ever wanted to say in a faculty meeting?

Double-checking every citation in an essay I'm peer reviewing, because that's something we have to do now.

Joe Roach taught Material Girl in a theater seminar I took back in the late 90s. I mean.

Wow!

Material Fucking Girl

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a suit . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a suit .

Ours is still a word full of treasures.

It’s incredible. I read it during a slow summer job in college and it still lives rent-free in my head.

Indeed.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

In 1677, Samuel Pepys wrote that the surest way to break the morale and loyalty of a sailor in the navy was to mess with their rations. Just thinking about this for no reason.

A blue book with a silhouette of a woman reading a book cut from the blue background and in the silhouette is a landscape of a river, forest, and castle

Reading @triciamatthew.bsky.social’s gorgeous edition of Northanger for a thing.

The Women's Print History Project collects bibliographic data on printed objects associated with women's production. I've been itching to query the data not limited by the UI, and ✨ I finally get to ✨ Here are some things I've been able to surface...

womensprinthistoryproject.com

Nah. Howie.

A wide angle seascape photo of the HMS Surprise sailing on the open ocean, with San Diego visible in the background. Photographer unknown.

Anyways, while Bluesky was down, I went looking for a photo reference in the SD Maritime Museum's archives for and found this lovely photo of the HMS Surprise sailing just off the coast here in San Diego. Thought some of you other MASTER & COMMANDER aficionados might appreciate.

Vacuum while the baby vacuums! Promote your book while the baby promotes his book!

I was pitching books at ASECS. Because having two overdue underwritten books projects is NOT ENOUGH.

💯

I’m a Sturgis kinda gal, but yes: parliamentary procedure is helpful and kinda fun.

I’m not going to watch a video about it. Stop with the videos.

As somebody who ends up reading a ton of pdfs via an e-reader, 'flipping' to an endnote is just a huge pain in the ass

Footnote that sh*t.

I love sandwiches so much

Very excited to be co-organizing this event with Adam Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social & Sarah Griffin @uoylibrary.bsky.social

You have to, if you teach — the yutes don’t know the song. 😭

Another excellent example

No, but a lot of them can — for a very simple reason. Dickinson favored ballad stanza as a meter, so you can sing many of her poems to a lot of folk tunes: Greensleeves, Gilligan’s Island, Auld Lang Syne…