Pro Vercelli content when?

Thought this meant the Marilynne Robinson book for a second and I was like, Sounds great!

Laurie.

Goddammit I came here to say this

All the whine is all for him

Time for some game theory!

That’s called volatile acidity and it’s a fault! Good wine won’t have that smell.

Bugonia (2025)

For the record, the multivocality in Transcription works a lot better than in The Topeka School. That book felt like the end of something for him; this feels like a beginning.

Well, Transcription isn’t quite 10:04, because what could be, but it did have me sobbing for a good bit, so kudos to Ben Lerner once again.

Where the bee sucks there suck I

Almost as much fun as “science,” “scissors,” and “shit” sharing a PIE root!

They should’ve sent a poet

1. So is Paris any good or
2. Skip you KNOW I am sensitive to the Holocaust

Uh oh yall it’s gettin kinda hazy

So is Paris any good or

Ahh you’re missed!

Have made it to Denver for #Shax2026! Can’t wait to get started! Message me if, like me, you’re here and don’t know that many people and want to get a bite to eat or a drink or a coffee!

Bobson Dugnutt in the on-deck circle

Cry, Freedom

Remains of the Day

Same deal with his Macbeth. It’s great! The best one on film! And yet!

I teach film studies sometimes at the high school level and Chinatown is a perfect fit in a lot of classes, but 1) there are other movies and 2) once that scumbag dies I might put it back on the syllabus. Can’t wait!

Achilles, famously unproblematic.

It’s not often that I point to Shakespeare as proof of anything related to “humanity,” but, uh

I’m about halfway through and this is great! Making me think about my own teaching, in a totally different context, a lot. Thanks—hope we can catch up at SAA?

I’ve read this book

Tbf kinda miss De Rossi shattering McBride’s nose.