Sunny Stalter-Pace

So glad that I was reminded about this podcast, since I love the bloody Who. (Always my answer to "Beatles or Stones?) A wonderful episode to accompany my first day of spring break.

Hanging out with my 12yo while we're both on spring break.

🎵🧵This is a great question: what are the songs performed on SNL with longest duration between recording and performance?

(Not including songs performed by an artist's previous bands, no so Paul Simon doing Simon & Garfunkel or Jagger doing Stones or McCartney doing Beatles or Wings.)

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I've been reading this guy since Glee was on Fox, so I'm going to find some books that I want but don't need and I'm going to buy them.

Has anyone seen evidence that GLP usage might quiet the scrolling and posting noise in my head?

Reading reviews of Assassins revival. The 2021 Off-Broadway and 2017 Encores in the NYT both avoid describing the final tableaux because they don't want to share "spoilers." First of all, annoying. Second, anyone who saw them and can share details? My Studies in Drama students thank you.

Today I learned that theater producer Billy Rose's memoir is illustrated by Salvador Dali!

Doing the Unthinkable — Jessica Zeller Four Writing Strategies for the Anti-Academic Academic Writer

I haven’t written publicly in a while, so I wrote a little something about writing. It’s for those working to write academic content with a less academic voice.

I also dish in it about the shittiness of unreadable scholarship. I hope you enjoy.

www.jessicazeller.net/blog/doing-t...

This is also a pretty good seed on streaming services for mid-80s alt dance pop beyond the usual suspects.

Is that dress made out of puzzle pieces? That is amazing.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen includes Mina Harker IIRC

Scanned black and white image of the top of a Variety front page. The headline in all caps at the bottom reads, "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"

Pretty excited that I might have a legitimate reason to reference this Variety headline in the chapter I'm working on.

whee.

Random look at the ShoutTV schedule means I'm recording Movie Movie, the weird 70s retro 30s thing with Harry Hamlin, George C. Scott, and I think Cybil Shepherd? Can't wait, may stay up for it. 70s version of 30s is the best nostalgia, runner up is how the Gay 90s during Prohibition.

YouTube video by Q-Feel - Topic Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)

Finally have an answer to the question from a week ago, what song would you choose for your Olympic skating routine? youtu.be/buANILN6asw?...

A FIGHT UNDER THE SEA; The Startling Scene that Will Carry the New Melodrama at the Academy. THE WHITE HEATHER WILL RUN Rose Coghlan and Other Popular Actors Employed in the Performance -- A New Farce... The scene that will carry the new English melodrama, "The White Heather," which was produced in an elaborate and expensive manner at the Academy last evening, is of a pictorial rather than a strictly ...

Good description of it in the review: timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Master Class: Fairytales as Inspiration with Edward Carey — The Shipman Agency 1 Session: Sunday, March 8 11:00am-2:00pm ET Edward Carey How to reignite your imagination, sharpen your fiction, and give yourself permission to be braver and stranger in your writing through the ...

Ahoy, Bluesky! Edward Carey is teaching an online course on Fairytales as Inspiration. He's taught fairytales to writers for two decades, at both the Iowa Writers Workshop & UT Austin, & knows everything about their joys & shadows.

www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

Chart showing usage statistics for African American Poetry a Digital Anthology. Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke's The New Negro, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay.

As Black History Month winds down, seeing a new high in monthly traffic for the digital collection I edit on Af-Am Poetry: 37,000 users in February.

Writings by Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay are the most in demand.

Some new additions to the site this month:

Immediacy of aesthetic perception is at least part of it. There's a quote in the 18c where a philosopher says do we reason to figure out if a ragu is good, no we taste it. plato.stanford.edu/entries/aest...

Sharing so folks can see the thread-within-the-thread because wow this class sounds amazing (and not just because Madame Bovary is my actual favorite book):

Thank you so much for the shoutout @slstalter.bsky.social! I wish that my book went to 1922 so I could have talked about Better Times, but I love the comparison to the Olympics. No one did spectacle better than the NY Hipp.

long shot, but anyone here work in development finance? if so, i have a question for a story.

reach out via signal: marisakabas.04

And small American flags for all, that whole story just crystallizes so much about American politics.

Pretty happy to live in the southeastern US when it comes to sweets: easy access to coconut cake, key lime pie, beignets, fried hand pies, caramel cake.

The Questioning Spirit: Bringing Visual Dramaturgy into the Classroom What if we understand text as a multi-faceted, dynamic object in which design and embodiment already lurk? The definition of dramaturgy is in constant flux, often dependent on the person or people …

MTC is launching a pedagogy section, where we invite our colleagues to reflect on a question, an assignment, an activity, an experience, a challenge, or a joy they have had in the classroom. To kick off, Alec Abramson, a recent college graduate, discusses his adventures with "dramaturgy design."

The Closing Ceremony and the Grand Opera Ball — Sunny Stalter-Pace One of the toughest things about writing on the New York Hippodrome is trying to explain what the shows were like when there are not many present-day analogues. I usually end up saying some kind of he...

New blog post connecting Olympic pageantry to the NY Hipp and shouting out my musicologist friends on social media (link to @carrieat.bsky.social and plug for @kristenmturner.bsky.social's forthcoming book).
www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2026/2/23/the-closing-ceremony-and-the-grand-opera-ball

Hey if anyone finds a good picture of the #ClosingCeremonies lady who was the "mysterious siren from the future" in the costume of really fierce recycled plastic, could you share it? I love her look.

Sunday lunch the past few weekends: frozen veggie dumplings and edamame boiled in broth. I'd maybe throw some fresh cilantro in there too if I had it.

And in a takeaway for every single writer, she ends by saying she's written "the book my life, and my talent, at this now, could contain." Wishing that for all y'all and for myself.

Really recommend Reasons and Feelings by Sarah Mesle if you're an academic humanist who thinks about writing style and audience. Some ideas I disagree with, mostly related to writing about what you "love," but tons of practical advice engagingly written.