His banter last weekend was pretty funny! When I saw them many times in the aughts, he never really said anything, so I like seeing his weird little personality peep out.

Excited to discuss this in my "Visual Rhetoric in Pop Music" course.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Coney Island? (The venue).

Wow! Congrats. Loved the novel. So happy for you!

This stunning Hoopoe did the right thing for a change and just sat on this rock next to my car for a photo session 😂 Most have gone but we always have a few winter here. #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025 #Alicante #canonphotography

I reposted the info recently, so you can find it on my profile.

Does your university or public library have a Kanopy account? It has The Criterion Collection and a "Film School classics" line up.

Useful thread from Courtney Milan about the pirated-books lawsuit against Anthropic, and about who can be part of it, and more.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

A historical photo of Ivan Illich being interviewed by a camera crew. Speech bubbles have been added to the image. The speech bubble from the interviewer says "The role of the university is...?" and the speech bubble from Illich says "...to resist AI".

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

Read this, coupled with the New York Times article "Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot for Children Under 13."

Today, @theatlantic.com published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems.

Here's what you can do: authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

See you at AWP25 in LA!

Midwest Prose
Co-hosted by Pleiades, The Dodge Magazine, & Rescue Press
7 PM, Thursday, 03/27 @ Pico Union Project
1153 Valencia Street, Los Angeles CA 90015
Readers: Heather Christle, Jason McCall, Alina Stefanescu, CJ Shuttle, Alyssa Perry, Madeline McDonnell

Bring back angry music. We neeeeeeeed it right now.

I agree Prince is number one. My students analyzed the Kendrick imagery today and killed it!

What are your others? I show my students Prince's "Purple Rain" Super Bowl performance and it always blows them away.

Excited to discuss this Friday in my Visual Analysis of Popular Music course!

They were so invested in the plot details! My students always love this story, but this exercise took it next level. Highly recommend!

In my Short Story Writing class (300 level), I had my students read "A Temporary Matter" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Before we discussed it, I asked them to get in groups and write an AITA (Am I the Asshole?) style post that summarized the story. They had a blast and the posts were spot on.

David Lynch's children have asked people to join them for a ten minute worldwide group meditation on his birthday Monday at noon PST.

I haven't seen this mentioned over here, but David Lynch's children have asked people to join them for a ten minute worldwide group meditation on his birthday Monday at noon PST.

911: what is your emergency

ME: i don’t know what day it is

911: sir it’s- oh fuck what day is it

So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.

Those verses are powerful, in terms of performance and writing. I look forward to seeing them live in April here in the US.

Last week, a man died in a plane crash while transporting rescue dogs. I was deeply saddened, because we're mourned for the life we lived and the choices we made. Think of the word "wake." What will be left in your wake? A glimmer of humanity? Or record-breaking profits?

Oops, auto-correct changed Yaa's spelling. Yaa Gyasi. But yeah, I know the website blue check exists but it's not effective!

I just got two! Miriam Toews and Yao Gyasi. The hello message from "Miriam" just arrived.

Drake suing talent for showing preferential treatment to Kendrick.

If I vowed to organize 100 notable small press books for 2025, who's in as reviewers? All genres, all small & micro presses.

(Does this already exist? If no, why not? If yes, disregard everything to this point.)