@erindwyer.bsky.social
History professor @ OU, views are my own. Author of Mastering Emotions, 2021. I write about slavery, emotions, & poison, I skeet about teaching, politics, & pop culture. She / hers. Proud union member. Live in Detroit but my heart is still in NOLA
There are so many Strip Law bits that will live in my brain now. Watch Strip Law on Netflix, we need season two of this twisted nonsense.
Being extra judgey watching DragRace tonight after buying loads of glitter foam paper, sequins, fishing line and a foam wig. 8 days till #MarcheDuNainRouge
She won it with that bag of wigs. Gotta have a wig collection for dressing up with the girlies.
Juicy giving me putting the duvet cover on, but make it fashion.
She’s gonna get “fitted sheet” trending.
Juicey has a wig from the Cindy McCain collection and a fitted sheet as a lewk, you’re in danger girl. #DragRace
Make a Beautiful Mind sequel about Darlene, cowards! Call it Good Will Cunting. #DragRace
Late to figuring out our #MarcheduNainRouge costumes, I think the girl will be a salt canister and partner will be an Andy Warhol soup can, should I join them in Marche du Can Rouge as a can of hairspray? Or do I reprise Marche du Pain Rouge?? Really mourning the loss of JoAnne Fabrics right now…
"I'll have my day in court" implies I'll also have my night in court: dancing on the judges bench, cocktail in hand, while the beat goes untz untz untz untz
His writing is so maudlin. He shits on young people all the time then complains about ageism, he's convinced all prejudice can be solved by people having a meal together, he loves to "both sides" every issue, all that and he was a scab when the Detroit Free Press was on strike. He SUCKS.
Oh yeah, the spines in is the WORST and most frivolous of Pinterest nonsense.
I genuinely have to organize most of my books by genre and then chronologically or alphabetically so I can find them when I need them.
I'm also biased by my time working in a struggling used bookstore that was mostly kept afloat by selling the cheapest hardbacks by the yard to decorators looking to fill bookshelves, it hurt my heart to think of books being bought only for aesthetics rather than to be read and reread.
I joke because I would never ever be able to find any books if they were organized that way. I'm truly the sociopath for alphabetizing fiction in my own home, and having that apart from other genres.
See that's the stack of library books I'm in the middle of reading, that's the stack of books I'm reading or will read for my research project, THAT is the stack of books I really WANT to read, those are books for the class I'm teaching now....
Dewey decimal? She sure do!
Sees people with books organized by color: "Sociopaths. Unhinged behavior, they hate books and reading."
Sees people with books in stacks: "What a beautiful mind. There's clearly a system or systems. This is a bibliophile with their emotional support books."
Speaking of Detroit, loving Detroit and Detroiters and hating Mitch Albom and Shri Thanedar are automatic follows from me, for you are my people.
Happy 313 Day (the Detroit area code) to all Detroit residents and lovers of the show Detroiters, celebrate by watching an episode and by supporting some Detroit businesses!
Every day I read the headlines and think “Hans Christian Andersen really thought he ate with The Emperor’s New Clothes, he couldn’t fathom the level of unironic, naked sycophancy that we saw on display every single day.”
Yep, it’s pretty hard to avoid. Then I get annoyed every time someone is speaking without their lawyer present or strong armed into a search without a warrant.
Cosplaying as libertarians with their Gadsden flags when all along what they meant was “don’t tread on me, tread on them.”
We’re under a wind alert with gusts so powerful that it’s shaking the house, ice balls are raining down sideways, and there’s no sun to be seen. In other words, immaculate Friday the 13th weather. Bring on some frogs and some blood hail.
I’ve tried to make it temperature dependent? Like it’s below 40, you have to wear socks and a jacket, this is not an outlandish request!!!
Even if he was remotely hesitant it means he’s leaking to the media “no one in the White House listens to me or respects me. I have no power!”
Tall ramp, simple as.
It’s alternated between raining and snowing like three times this morning. Solidarity to all parents having to explain that just because we had a week of warm weather last week doesn’t mean coat season is over.
Now I want to find some examples of “copaganda” articles and headlines for them to parse in our last week.
One of the many tropes of true crime literature we’re analyzing all semester is how the police are being portrayed, starting with Murders in the Rue Morgue, then in In Cold Blood, and this coming week in Devil in the White City, which has incompetent cops AND the tireless detective with a hunch.
Saving this to include in the last week of my American True Crime literature class.
I hope you all remembered last night to leave out some animal bones and a bowl of ensorcelled salt water for the Friday the 13th goblin!
these knees? bees.