Car screen showing “Everybody Laughs” by David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra

3 year old’s current favorite song. It’s a good vibe for the end of a long day.

Managed to put TWO (2) line-dry shirts in the dryer this week. That should be a way to measure your level of dissociation/distraction. This week I am 2 shrunken shirts dissociated

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Especially for, like, a kids’ day camp … there is no relevance to this at all …

a really easy way to ensure I don't sign my fun, active nonbinary kid up for your summer camp is stating on your website that you split kids up into "all boys" and "all girls" groups

It is such a true and profound phenomenon.

People are who not teachers may never understand that there are students who etch themselves on our souls.

It’s rare that we can predict who they’ll be, but there’s no mistaking it when it happens. For good or for ill, that’s my kid and their existence impacts how I see my job and the world.

Thanks for reading it! And yes, Newman really was incredible.

Very proud of this essay about what might just be my favorite sports film (but ooooh Bull Durham also exists)

Picking out a shirt to wear to an event with lots of moms and young kids is so stressful for me. Do I wear the Pope’s Exorcist shirt? the They Live shirt? the The Shining shirt? the Slap Shot shirt? the Christopher Moltisanti in a neck brace shirt? What is the best way to ensure no one speaks to me

“You will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me two more times, if you do bad. Good night.”

Ok I know it’s the finale of The Pitt tonight but ALSO we only got halfway through The Way We Were last night and I need more Hubbell Gardiner in my life

The Terror: Devil in Silver Official Trailer | Feat. Dan Stevens | Coming to AMC+ & Shudder May 7 YouTube video by amc+

For the night crowd—THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER trailer is here and it’s beautiful. youtu.be/4pMW1Jw5wsY?...

It is a rich text!! And I haven’t even seen all the episodes!

p.s. Because this show comes from the mind of @victorlavalle.bsky.social there are so many great nods to literary horror swimming inside it. The story is weighted with so many fun and weird allusions and with so much emotional care. I am excited for it to be out in the world.

I got to see the first episode recently on a big screen and this thing LOOKS FANTASTIC. And: what a trailer!!

Sign up for Shudder to watch this very soon, you will not regret it!

I spend ONE DAY largely off the internet and now I'm having to learn about Clavicular and mogging and all kinds of bullshit I do NOT WANT IN MY HEAD.

There is something so real about the digital block/distraction-mess/pretense-of-productivity-but-actually-it’s-more-time-intensive-ness of it all

I have switched back to grading on paper after years of grading digitally (tried various platforms) and my attention span for grading has increased SO MUCH. It's almost like ... we should be doing more work on paper ... and like digital work has fried our brains ...

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When I imagined fighting the robots I didn’t imagine poems as part of that but that’s on me. www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...

Went down a weird rabbit hole of researching doors in film tonight and I don't know how I got here but I'm not mad about it

there's nothing like the high of coming up with a project assignment for your students that you ACTUALLY think will yield good results and may EVEN make them excited about a text

So … no one wants to live … in a city??

Our very old dog has gotten SO demanding. When I get mad at him barking for dinner early, though, I try to tell myself that I, too, should feel so empowered as to yell for my dinner someday in the twilight of my life. He has absolutely earned it.

I mean I get it

Also an alternate universe version of our relationship

Proud to share the very first moving footage of our new season of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER.

What happens when people are trapped inside a broken system with no way out?

From @victorlavalle.bsky.social, Karyn Kusama, Ridley Scott, & me.

Full trailer soon. Premieres on AMC+ & Shudder May 7.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

I came up with that last part which really takes it over the top

currently figuring out a lesson plan in which my film students watch part of Fitzcarraldo, then part of Burden of Dreams, THEN part of Les Blank's commentary on Burden of Dreams and by that time we'll all feel so meta we can just call it a day