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I always feel like.🎶🎶

Somebody's watching meee🎶🎶🎶

I can't decide what job would be more fun.

A fired division 1 football coach.

or

A LinkedIn ghostwriter.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

This timeline is the worst. Amazon stock soars as they layoff 14,000 people going into the holidays.

The Dances with Wolves soundtrack spent more than a year on the Billboard top 200 chart? That's kind of wild to think about now.

My fellow parents out there:

How long is "one more minute" in real time?

If your school fired your football coach and paid them millions to do it, but then had a meeting complaining about paying House NIL money and having to cut other sports, how are you feeling today?

If your Husband (or boyfriend) shows up ready for the Halloween party in a pair of white boxers with red hearts on them, a leather jacket, and no shoes on, asking to borrow your cat, just put the cat on his shoulder and run with it, he knows what's up.

I've been at UT 15 years and get a gift. (I've been here closer to 16 though, soooo, I should probably check on that.) Help me pick:

Doing annual enrollment for benefits. My wife working in HE in KY were double the rates I was given from TN.

Wild.

Starting to think I want to call it the Volan Symposium.

April 11th, 2026.

For those in college esports on here. Would there be an interest for a "meeting of the minds" of all the advisors/directors of esports in the Southeast. We'd do it at Volan. Order some pizza. Maybe even run some discussion sessions with speakers?

Oh, and free.

I contend this is still a very weird shutdown. In past shutdowns they would turn off the government websites. But IPEDS is still up. Albeit not being actively updated (I assume).

Wouldn't you like to be just good enough at your job to get $60 million to not keep doing it.

I don't think universities should be stripped of their tax exemption. But when football can pay someone $60 million to not be a coach it sure makes an argument to at least on exempt certain parts of the enterprise.

Hey You Guys!!!!

For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH.

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/aw...

Pull your IPEDS data for your work this week now. It may not be there in the morning.

Chattanooga did this, which is what prompted my thoughts here. Fanboy always did both, and I just started to wonder.

When we gonna convert KnoxOut into a full FanCon?

I'm still new to the comic/anime conventions scene.

Why is it that so many of these conventions are also wrestling conventions?

Is it simply the consolidation of the "fan" experience trying to bring in enough people to cover all the costs? Is the overlap of the groups that large?

Goddamnit Donut!

I'm really intrigued on the idea the TN Holler is one of the tops.

I want to become a "fill out this survey ambassador" for UT. It is vital that everyone takes this. Is that a thing? Can I volunteer for that to be a thing?

I’ve been reporting on influencers for more than seven years now and today I had an academic decline to do an interview about them for the first time out of fear of government retaliation.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Unrelated, you can watch The Man Show reruns on Tubi.

the trajectory from circa 1999 Man Show-era women jumping on trampolines Jimmy Kimmel to 2025 free speech canary in the coal mine Jimmy Kimmel is really something

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

NEW EXTRA POINTS:

The SCORE Act, as *currently written*, is pretty dead. But I don't think that federal action to regulate college sports is dead....or at least, not yet.

On the complicated coalition building to build a new college sports:

www.extrapointsmb.com/p/the-score-...

Apple TV has probably produced some of the greatest television of the last 5 years which absolutely nobody has talked about.

When it goes out of business it will be a historic loss of absolute bangers that no one has a copy of because they don't drop DVDs and nobody has pirated.

Except Severance