Joseph Rezek

Part of hanging out with friends is commiserating and lamentation. Thats different than just spiraling

I’m not here to doom-scroll. I’m here to hang out. That makes all the difference!

Love this for you. I swear by PT and can be seen at the gym doing unusual PT-derived exercises all over the place

I don’t think there’s a lot of deep engagements in this album!

OMG I missed it! Need to re-listen

Do I have too much time on my hands??? Who’s asking!!! Lmao

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Taylor Swift admitted that she didn’t re-read Hamlet for her Ophelia single which is inexcusable really for an “English teacher,” but someone on her team must have been googling images (just like me) and asked her to reproduce hamlet’s posture in this illustration of him killing Polonius.

I now have a 30 minute hilarious lecture prepared on T’s attempt to be Shakespearean if anyone wants to pay me a $1M speaker fee!!!

Historians, at it again. A+++++

This is all but literally one of the things that King James II did that led to the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the English Bill of Rights in 1689. (Want to guess who used that document as a model in the 1770s and 1780s?)

avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century...

Thank you!

GOP is just doing all this for posting. It’s all about the posts. Is governing by phone only, by the algorithm. Phone outrage, their only principal of governance.

People in my phone!! I will be giving a talk at Harvard’s Mahindra center on Oct 23, at 6pm:

“Aphra Behn’s White Female Pen”

It’s about Oroonoko (1688) and the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” in the late 17th C.

(from my book, which I’m still revising, still eager for feedback…)

Sometimes walking around the department I seemingly involuntarily whistle Darth Vader’s imperial march.

Can’t wait to listen!

Oh, this is so exciting! Thank you @lizcovart.bsky.social for the invitation. And while I'm here, pleased to announce that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is bringing out a paperback in Spring 2026!!!

Oh my broken heart. These poor young queer people

Screenshot of a New York Times webpage. The headline reads: “Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy Torture.” The words “Conversion Therapy” are shown with red strikethroughs. A smaller subheading below explains: “Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.” The page header includes links like “Birthright Citizenship,” “L.A. Immigration Stops,” “Unsigned Orders in Trump’s Favor,” and “Florida Immigration.” Would you like me to also provide a shorter, accessibility-friendly version of the alt text (like what a screen reader would ideally read aloud), or keep this more detailed one?

Fixed.

Yes I know all the debates!

People in my phone!! I will be giving a talk at Harvard’s Mahindra center on Oct 23, at 6pm:

“Aphra Behn’s White Female Pen”

It’s about Oroonoko (1688) and the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” in the late 17th C.

(from my book, which I’m still revising, still eager for feedback…)

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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I now have a 30 minute hilarious lecture prepared on T’s attempt to be Shakespearean if anyone wants to pay me a $1M speaker fee!!!

Taylor is like “thank god you, my boyfriend, didn’t tell me to get to a nunnery, kill my father, and then get into a huge fight with my brother literally in my grave, after my muddy death!”

And with shrunken departments everyone is already doing twice as much service as was expected 10-15 yrs ago

We do!!!!

Sketch of hamlet and laertes fighting in Ophelia’s grave

Googling around for pics of Ophelia’s fate. This slaps actually (it’s Eugène Delacroix no kidding)

Taylor is like “thank god you, my boyfriend, didn’t tell me to get to a nunnery, kill my father, and then get into a huge fight with my brother literally in my grave, after my muddy death!”

Sorry, but desecrating Chicago is an unforgivable moral and spiritual transgression.