Shawn Gilmore

A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

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Weird Terror #7 (1953). On the cover, as coal is being shoveled into a furnace by an evil looking dude, and we are viewing this from inside the furnace, a hand is visible in the flames.

Cover by Don Heck.

Banned Books Week prints are all dry and ready to ship - my sincere thx to those who've snagged one! If you'd like a copy, plz DM me or head over to my Etsy shop (link in bio) - half of the net proceeds go to the American Library Association! #bannedbooksweek #letterpress #bookhistory #libraries

[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

I think the person in question made enough of an ass of themselves that that is all folks will remember. One hopes…

Danke.

Thanks—not my first encounter with this sort, and they are thankfully rare. But a very unpleasant way to end the day.

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames Alt: a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

Got insulted and belittled by a tenured colleague (I am an NTT), for my understanding of a subject and for the quality of my writing about it, in a governance meeting at which both our Chancellor and Provost were present. Note that I am 100% correct about said topic. How’s everybody else doing?

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

BREAKING: Photo of the violent insurrectionists causing politicians to fear for their lives.

Happy to do so--I always try to keep some lightly anonymized student work around so folks can see the many ways we engage with comics. 😎 #comicsteaching

NST #1286: Cold War [寒戰] (2012) — The Vault of Culture A classic investigation board is assembled and then discussed in Cold War [寒戰] (dirs. Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2012).

A classic investigation board is assembled and then discussed in Cold War [寒戰] (dirs. Longman Leung & Sunny Luk, 2012): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

Student analysis of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina

Student analysis of Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina

I’ve had some great student work on it—a couple of example visual analyses, based on @nsousanis.bsky.social’s model:

One of the best “this is how we live now” works of our times. And teaches really well!

The lemming-like behavior of every class of legacy institution to fall for her transparently unserious, lying grift is a damning indictment of those institutions & the easily hoodwinked people who run them. A sign of our much deeper elite accountability problem that is destroying the Republic.

Aussie state becomes first to disarm ‘sovereign citizens’ The deaths of two police officers in Victoria have prompted a major crackdown in another jurisdiction.

Novel idea: “If you believe you don’t have to abide by the law of Western Australia, then there is no way you can be considered a fit and proper person to be able to hold a licence to own and possess a firearm.” thenightly.com.au/australia/so...

We’re always open to pitches big and small. If you have a large work—journal article, conference presentation—or idea for a new piece that you want to see out in the world, hit us up! We offer editorial guidance and authors retain full rights to their work should they want to use it elsewhere.

I edit a public scholarship site, @vaultofculture.bsky.social, that publishes work mostly on popular culture, which I founded for precisely this reason: to free scholarship from the confines of academia and provide a venue for scholars, including those outside academia. www.vaultofculture.com/about

omg @chronicle.com listed my piece from 2023 as “the great read” in a recent lineup.

amazing! I’m very proud of it.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Before they’re done the men leading our major AI labs are gonna not only discover the secrets of intelligence but — more importantly — speed(re)run the history of 20c literary theory. They coulda just majored in English.

william hogarth's 1761 cartoon "five orders of periwigs," showing extremely elaborate curly court wigs for men

why dont men dress like they did in the good old days

Codex Aureus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive MS. A 135, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...

#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory

Oh hey how's the Chis Rufo-powered New College of Florida antiwoke redesign going?