Nate Wolff

Really not looking forward to difficult convos with the family over Thanksgiving. Sorry grandpa, whales are fish!

The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.

We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"

www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...

I do not have a riverboat license. Still.

But this paper was really good.

The parallel parking test is a nightmare when the river's low

In which I give @mattseybold.bsky.social a pop quiz for his river boat license AND deal with a rude heckler, my nemesis @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, while talking about Twain's Puddn’head Wilson via Malm's Fossil Capital.

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me when I see your aurora borealis pics

Thanks! (AK on first-personalism is already well represented on the syllabus, but somehow I wasn't seeing the digression unit as contiguous, which of course you're right it totally is!)

Perfect - thanks! (Interesting that digressive structure could seem to call for sustained attention to complex branching plots, or could seem to indulge a taste for distraction…)

Thanks! And for something else entirely the parts on aphorism look interesting to me too.

Just glanced at an abstract and it sounds perfect -- thanks!

Thank you!

hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digression—its pleasures, frustrations, etc. Whether in literature (e.g. Tristram Shandy), film or tv, video games ("side quests"), etc.? Other fun examples welcome too. (My favs are "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and whale facts obvs 🐳)

He did love putting words together. White-blow. Bridegroom-night. Lunchbox.

Picture of an instagram post that says “ Obsessed with the fact that all the NYC ferries were named by the city's second graders”

ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express

It’s so good! Thank you comrade nypost

On your Marx, get set, Zo! Headline from nypost

this is also the phrase I used to start my Émile Zola reading marathon

so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT

This makes me happy to no end—not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars.

bluesky introduces new “backhanded likes” and “pity likes” beta

a halloween costume labeled "Sexy Nurse" with an image of Walt Whitman

They were uncharacteristically speechless. The learning experience was simply too profound.

Extremely real

comparison of the crotch size in two engravings of Walt Whitman from research by Ted Genoways

Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.

#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social

I'm so excited Dan, Johanna, & Emory have made it possible for me to record the entirety of their book launch symposium next month as an arc in the "Vandal Live" series.

Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.

thank YOU. Shockingly little gooning discourse on here so thought people might need the direct footnote 🙏

Everybody's talking about the vaguely mystical masturbatory subculture where doomed young men find self-destructive community.