Matthew Harrison

A used bookshop called Maslow's Hierarchy of Reads.

i'm so jealous of anyone who gets to go to this!

i love this about basil: they communicate their needs very clearly.

i know stockholm syndrome isn't really a thing, but i've started to think "man, duo mobile picks really good numbers"

My brain is mush. I need to secure permissions for two famous C19 paintings to appear in my book. My recollection is there’s a database (or two, or…?) where you can get images of many C19 paintings for free or a small fee. Any tips? With thx from a person who deals mostly in words.

from wikipedia, the Reichenau Primer with Pangur Ban in the lower left of the the left page, just dropped in there among so much else.

taught Pangur Bán today in my undergrad medieval animals course. Everyone loves this ninth-century Old Irish poem about a white cat and monk each hunting, one for mice, the other for textual meaning. Without knowing the scholarship, I'd wager than at least popularly, it's taken as just that. 1/4

Do you think they told her the event started at 1pm so she’d be there on time?

delighted by how terrible so many grammys outfits are.

people are taking swings again.

just havin some fun here on bluesky dot com

triple dog dare you to post something corny

David Lehman has a poem somewhere about the sentence "I'm shocked, but I'm not surprised."

THAT IS NOT WHAT ANYTHING IS FOR

Seriously. I want students to do a couple drafts of ANYTHING that might encounter a reader.

What else are we doing here?

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WHAT

JFC

But perennially, a challenge of college teaching is that you can’t just rely on what would have reached you bc you by virtue of becoming a professor in your subject were an atypical student.

I also took Volleyball! Great class!

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)

Has anyone written an intellectual history of Gen Ed in a Free Society?

today a poem named "this is just to say" would be about email

see what shaped your python!

time to set the Western restaurant person up with your ex!

Just such a clear conceptual vocabulary! I had been using the U-shaped paragraph bit, but this is more precise (and accompanies it beautifully).

@johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social I have so far used y'all's description of close-reading in three class sessions and three more student meetings.

i suspect i'll teach it more frequently next fall when i've had more time to absorb.

important for font name fans

(love this thread!)

Right around 1275, the peat ran out. For about a decade, the trenches sat wet and empty. And then, the dams began to give way.

(Carrie Bradshaw mode) … but I couldn’t help asking, ‘has copyright law ever been not colonialist?’

for every like this post gets, i'll refrain from saying one thing that would lose me my job.

congratulations on your scalded tongue