Nicole Cesare

Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

Honestly, I think GenAI art is some loser shit

I will never understand why so many shows are sold with “dour white people” as the key art. NBC’s The Slap was the first one that really jumped out at me (apologies to Thandiwe Newton.)

Misread that as “The Donner Party” and got excited, but I guess dinner parties are cool too.

(ok but actually that I would have been tempted by 🤣. And I definitely enjoyed your book!)

I read one of these and didn’t really enjoy it. Then it tried to sell me a necklace referenced in the book and I was like “oh yeah ok no, no more books from this publisher.”

What is it?

I got the frog one for my nephews and they are stoked to go through it! Makes a great gift for kids!

Reminds me of a meeting I went to where the city tried to cynically position environmentalists against youth sports advocates only to be stymied by the arrival of the pickleball lobby.

Anyone else just blasting the Monsoon Wedding soundtrack today?

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.

Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

👋 B-A-N-A-N-A-S

The second he started talking I said veneers!

ChatGPT in the LMS.

Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?

Again!

Did the organist just play Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus Luzardo struck out Ohtani?

Our church organist (who exclusively plays classical stuff) did this on Halloween one Sunday. It was amazing.

The Mississippi Delta is shining like a national guitar. 🤯

Even more fun when there is a severe rooms shortage on campus.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.

Violent crime is at a 50-year low.

This is amazing.

www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

This is great! I just shared it with some of our First Year Writing faculty.

A still from the Oscar-winning movie Anora.

Anyone else when they see Rizgod? #survivor #survivor49

Trying to get my Gen Z students to engage in class discussion, so I’m replacing the desks with couches and giving them all lavalier mics they have to hold in their hands for some reason

Wooooow this made me laugh more than anything else that’s happened tonight.

Can we just make Adrien Brody pay the difference? I think his Oscars speech is still going. #emmys

Bouncin here and there and everywhere

Enfrijoladas Pintos (Published 2021)

I did the NYTimes enfrijoladas (sadly not photographed) and they were pretty tasty, if a bit fussy for a weeknight (made the beans from scratch).

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022...

I suspect everyone screeching in horror about this new Wuthering Heights trailer is giving Emerald Fennel exactly what she wants.