Colleen Hoelscher

Sometimes I get ideas that make me wish I taught semester-long classes. Reskeeting for the morning crowd.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Bad Bunny halftime show

2026, Together we are America: immigration and cultural identity

Beyoncé halftime show

2013, Who run the world? Beyoncé and 21st century feminism

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show

2004, wardrobe malfunctions and purity culture

U2 Super Bowl halftime show

2002, performative patriotism post 9/11

Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show

2025, race relations in the Trump era

“Football Night in America: Social History via Halftime Shows” — a syllabus.

The Library of Congress name authority file has it as “Tyler, the Creator, 1991-“. Their standard rule is to format the authority file “lastname, firstname” fwiw.

It is 34 degrees with a wintry mix today in Dilley.

The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙

I loaned Joe Montana a screwdriver to assemble his daughter’s futon when moving her into her freshman dorm.

It’s actually a real thing! Studies have found a correlation between “roaming entropy” and improved mood.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

"The Archival Intern will evaluate Polar’s historical materials and design a complete archival program" !?!?!

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There is absolutely nothing "intern" about this job description. And yet, they will have no shortage of applicants.

My PCP’s AI scribe charted that I have lymphoma (I don’t). Getting it fixed was such a huge hassle that I have considered just changing physicians.

We did a snowy gingerbread man last year

Having been forced to eat Texas bagels for almost ten years now, in no universe should they be considered a draw.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

You've Got Mail, Stepmom, and Rudy

I'm curious if others who usually travel for Thanksgiving are second guessing doing so at this point.

i wish LSUfreak was around to make a brian kelly GIF

Whatever you were expecting, the reality of this timeline is 1000x worse.

It is okay—dare I say, even wonderful!—to write in your books and dog-ear pages. Your annotations add historical value by showing how someone responded to the book.

Boosters' past rhetoric shows why San Antonio residents should be leery of Project Marvel Over the years, locals have been subjected to glowing promises about plenty of other big projects that fell flat.

Over the years, locals have been subjected to glowing promises about plenty of other big projects that fell flat.

The cognitive dissonance of being a college football fan* and working in higher education led me to same feeling of grossness. (* now former)