Albert Rolls

[The music plays]

6 9 is the answer.

Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.

Reminder that 2025's Twelth Night from Central Park is showing tomorrow, 11/14, on PBS! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

This piece by @freeburian.bsky.social is the first article from the forthcoming special issue on Shakespeare and Middleton, which I am guest editing. So pleased to see it live 🙂

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

I am about to oblige myself to write (not for publication) about Pale King. I haven't written more than a long endnote on DFW, one I would write differently if I had first read Stephen Guy-Bray's Loving in Verse. (By the way, can someone do a reprint of Loving in Verse?)

The plan for all that gold on the walls of the Oval Office is to take it when his term in office is over, right? He can't bring himself to leave it can he?

Shit, I applied for the Daily Mail USA or just US maybe. What was i thinking? I guess I won't hear back.

February here.

Happy Anniversary week

that panel from Watchmen

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

You already have up.

OMFG

So the new angsty complaint in HS (or secondary school) can be, "Why are we wasting our time here? Aren't our AI masters going to know all this crap for us?"

Magnifique.

In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;
What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?

(Take this allegorically.)

I also inherited mine!

My family is ridiculous. My kid got his first cavity, so ...

Who wants to pay me, a woman who wrote a book about offices, to tell Ross Douthat that he is, once again, completely wrong about everything?

Wait. She apologized for that? I need documentation.

Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024) This article reads Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) within the context of several other works of “post-Huck” fiction that have responded directly to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. It finds that, ...

New at Orbit:

Booker, K., (2025) “Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) ”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 12(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/orb...

My kid's college does not give any credit for AP courses, nor even for the so-called college course through SUNY, though his friend in a different college is starting off with 30 credits.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I going to try get insurance for the next year. Might not be the best time but I guess it's time to admit that it's a little late in the game to skip that expense.

Should the phrase of the day be "indict a sandwich"?

I've had plans and then they scattered (Counting only the books I wanted to write.)

My Milton prose,though I have to stay home.

Maybe "they" were worried he wouldn't be able to. Or maybe "they" are being allegorical. Same line in either case. "Just search for the gold, sir!"

No.