Prof Matthew

CFP is out for the #SouthernGothic Area at PCAS/ACAS in New Orleans! We'd love to hear about all your research on the Southern Gothic, broadly interpreted. Lit, film, TV, art, music, gaming--wherever the Southern Gothic manifests, we want to hear about it! pcasacasconference.org/wp-content/u...

The CFP for PCAS/ ACAS 2026 is now up! We'd love to hear all about your research on film, TV, literature, music, and culture!
Check out the #CFP here: pcasacasconference.org/2026-confere...

Being deployed with improper training to indiscriminately detain people with different skin complexions & accents by any means necessary & being told they have absolute immunity while doing so is a powder keg waiting to explode.

But hey.

How much did people save at the grocery store this month?

Wow.

Publication announcement! The two-volume collection on game genres is finally out today! Thanks to my co-editors @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social for all the work and friendship.

Thanks also to our excellent contributors for their time and energy!

“This is a gulping wine. The faster you drink it the better it will taste.”

I am drinking Kirkland rose prosecco. It is not for sipping.

Thug watching John Wick rip through 40 of his buddies: “I got a good feeling about my chances!”

Finished The Lowdown. It’s good.

It was fun till you had to enter combat.

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that Charlie Brown?

Academic conference proposal:

Hey! Remember NFL Street?

Smaller pool for loans. Female dominated fields. Also Mandatory Reporters!

Looking to speak with academics/experts specializing in video games studies specifically ideas around conquest, environmentalism, and land for a piece. Please repost this or give recs.

One Battle At a Time

Films Fatale: a starter pack of twenty noir features directed by women • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine Noirvember founder Marya E. Gates rings in the month of moral ambiguities and mysteries with a starter pack of twenty women-directed noir features—cigarettes and stilettos not included.

It’s Noirvember!!!

That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”

Hot take. Sausage is better than bacon.

I love this!

You’ve got blood on your hands

Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.

The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’

You all have fucking blood on your hands

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Only wrestling is real.

It’s worth noting that I’m pursuing freelance design full-time. If any cool people want to make cool stuff – comics or pop culture or otherwise – hit me up! I do good work and I have nice hair.

Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures

Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social

Out Jan 2026!

Superman, Superman
Does whatever a super can
Will he snake
Out your drain
Patch the roof
If there's rain
Look out
Can't find the Super Man

Neat!

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

My syllabi are in Arial, ThankYouVeryMuch.

Plus I can’t wear Chucks anymore. Not enough arch support.

Just clicked. I wonder when the private prisons they’re building are also going to end up as agricultural facilities and factories.

AOC tweet about Republicans stopping House activities to prevent a vote on Epstein

AOC sums it up nicely.

Gotta wonder what these Republicans are hiding...and who they are protecting.