"Self-Portrait 6-20-25"

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New pod on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining; we spend the last half of the episode discussing Frederic Jameson’s brilliant essay, ‘Historicism in “The Shining”’: https://t.co/M36rJ6GTXH

I think at this point we can skip the explanation of what an iceberg video "is."

happy last #smallpoemsunday of 2025! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote and/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s W. S. Merwin, from “Song of Three Smiles”~

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New episode on absolutely terrible 2007 blockbuster I Am Legend; lazy world building and incompetent protagonist behavior define this non-classic: https://t.co/Yo5SxMIvN4

My returning guest is Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at NYU. He is the author of Confronting Capitalism. We discuss what the word “socialism” means today.

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New podcast on the origins of Sam Altman and OpenAI…one of our most excoriating, horrified episodes yet: https://t.co/nAqsXZ1uhi

The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction. https://t.co/CIVhmE5AWr

Prohibition https://t.co/JqUhUUzU8Q

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New pod on Abel Ferrara’s late style end of the world picture, 4:44 Last Day on Earth. Despite its rather thin plot we found much to discuss and enjoy: https://t.co/Ic0hvlo6NQ

I’ve mostly abandoned this platform and moved to BlueSky. But what happened in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday was too important not to share here too. This is a long thread on the police massacre in Rio. Please, take sometime to read it and consider retweeting. 1/22 +

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Gattaca pod ep with commentary on the Louvre robbery including my “troubling and demoniac” Macron impression: https://t.co/yrs8Z7tjAA

camp anawanna come back down from this cloud

didn’t reach my goal! still need $300 by 10/15

Much requested podcast on Ragnarok, the Medieval Norse conception of the end of the world, featuring many terrifying monsters: https://t.co/M5ezWRYRsM

After 100 years in grad school, I finally defended my dissertation though.