Some kind of joke built around:
"If you take the eyes out of Idjit, you get DJT"

I'm not exactly sure how to make it work, but I think there is something there.

First day of the Popular Culture Association Conference in Atlanta! I'll be presenting "Metamodern Cringe Comedy and The Chair Company" on Friday.

And it IS, itself, antisemitic.

Does anybody still watch CNN? Hate-watching doesn't count.

Sincerity, irony and metamodernism - ABC listen The supposed evils of postmodern culture have been endlessly catalogued: moral relativism, the loss of shared values, ironic detachment, a pathological aversion to sincerity, and all rooted in a philo...

Well this is exciting! I was interviewed about metamodernism on Australia's public broadcast network, the ABC.
The host, David Rutledge, was really fun to talk to and I thought he did a great job of guiding and shaping the conversation.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

They wouldn't know who we actually voted for, but when we register, in most states we have to declare a party in order to be able to vote in that party's primary election. So they would know your party.

So, like, more of a Sinema than a Mancin or Fetterman?

Project Hail Mary is a delightful and inspiring science-fiction, save-the-world, animatronic, Ryan-Gosling-vehicle, metamodern buddy movie. Definitely recommended.

And people I went to see it with who had read the original Andy Weir novel loved the adaptation.

But also... that's not a Presidential power. Saying who is and is not allowed to play football in a given 4 hour time slot. That's not a Presidential power.

RIGHT?

YES! OBAA works as a Left-sympathetic film not by presenting an irrefutable case for Left ideology but by telling a human story about revolutionary Left people, including their flaws and failings. It treats revolutionaries as subjects not representatives. To me, this is metamodern political cinema.

Every TV series that is about professors at a college is PRETTY GOOD but also slightly flawed in some way or other.

'Buffy' Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Dead At Hulu Hulu has opted not to proceed with its Buffy the Vampire reboot, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Chloé Zhao directed the pilot, Buddy: New Sunnydale.

It's a sad day in Sunnydale.😢😢😢😢
deadline.com/2026/03/buff...

Plus, even if it was implemented by Congress, Congress is controlled by Republicans.

The 25th amendment is not implemented by Congress. It's implemented by Trump's cabinet. Who are all loyalists.

As an editor, this whole project was a lot of fun for me, as was this recorded Zoom gathering to celebrate the release of the book.

It's you are idiots and I know more than you, and it's fine for me to BS my way though the few details I'm not sure about, because I get the big picture and you never will.

I recognize the mindset from fighting against it in myself all my life.

Got my author copies of this today!

I knew Bret Weinstein was a lunatic but somehow I didn't realize he was actually a Trump supporter. I guess his brain was truly broken by his Evergeen experience.

That would bother me a lot!

Message me if you'd like the link.

Making the playlist for "walking in music" for tomorrow's Sufjan Stevens book release Zoom event.

I'm proud not only to be involved in expanding the scope of metamodernism research, but also to be giving the genius, impassioned work of Sufjan Stevens the attention it deserves!!!

(If you are affiliated with a University or other academic institution, consider requesting the school to purchase a copy!)

It's an academic book(Bloomsbury) but the writing is fairly accessible and I feel any Sufjan Stevens fan would find the explorations of his music meaningful. As an academic release it is on the expensive side though. Ugggh!

The book is part of a series called Studies in Metamodernism, edited by Linda Ceriello and Timotheus Vermeulen. I'm really excited to read the other titles coming out!

I am one of four co-editors of this multi-author volume, along with Tom Drayton, Josh Busman and Maren Haynes-Marchesini, and as the co-author, with Tom, of the Introduction.

This is a multi-author volume, each chapter covering the artistry of our subject from a different angle. Sufjan is quite a unique figure whose life and work invite studies related to the perspectives of Evangelical Christianity, Queer Studies, Americana Studies, Composition/Music Theory and more.

We will be celebrating the release of MY IMPOSSIBLE SOUL: THE METAMODERN MUSIC OF SUFJAN STEVENS on Zoom on FRIDAY, MARCH 6 at 11am Pacific time.

Message me for Zoom deets.

I'm not much of a sports person but our Seattle teams DO always seem to be the "good guys." My brother-in-law is a lifelong Mets sufferer.

Please please please, post about culture and good times! I would, but I'm not motivated because on Bluesky nobody ever responds to my original posts (even about politics.)

Also: Seattle-ite? Same!