David B Hobbs

Clone Wars slander!!!

YouTube video by House & Garden Inside Richard E. Grant’s Georgian House at Christmas | Design Notes

official beginning of the holiday season and it's time to revisit Richard E. Grant's Christmas decorations and his garden sculpture of Barbra Streisand's head www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGV...

even when AI is surveying reputable sources, we shouldn't forget that summarizing and synthesizing are interpretive activities that involve selecting what is most significant or salient to ongoing discussions. even if AI were unbiased, this is creative work that we should be doing.

exactly

casaubon as a lovecraft protagonist who never actually encounters the blasphemous horrors

an excerpt from Chapter 49 of Middlemarch by George Eliot: “Well, you know, Casaubon was a little twisted about Ladislaw. Ladislaw has told me the reason—dislike of the bent he took, you know—Ladislaw didn’t think much of Casaubon’s notions, Thoth and Dagon—that sort of thing: and I fancy that Casaubon didn’t like the independent position Ladislaw had taken up. I saw the letters between them, you know. Poor Casaubon was a little buried in books—he didn’t know the world.”

been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft

a bag of delicious edamame power, with dried cranberries, raisins, almonds, pumpkin seeds and of course edamame

the way that RFK felt about Olivia Nuzzi is the way that I feel about Edamame Power

I’m open to being the Woah Vicky for BlueSky

*beats the "Reunite Craig and Green for a CHARADE style caper flick* drum once again*

Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this FREE, ONLINE, GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP is a little less than two weeks away!

There’s a lot to be worried about and many reasons to be sad, yes, but in just 5 months and 3 days we will find out exactly how Willy Wonka became Willy Wonka

everything on Tubi feels like it was made to be recommended by a middleschool friend’s unsavory older brother

Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo... Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.

This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social

you can just say “Harvard”

a poster for a talk entitled “Apostrophe at Catastrophic Duration: Towards a Lyric Theory of Being the Last Person on Earth” being held at 4pm EST in room SMD 224 at UOttawa

hello Ottawa! I am giving this talk tomorrow please come!

+ thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!

the Shelley-Godwin Archive has a cool digitized version of the manuscript drafts with identified handwriting

shelleygodwinarchive.org/contents/fra...

This seems hard to believe…given that Blackstone Inc. is only 40, KKR is 49, & Bain Capital is 41.

the kitchen-aid pasta attachments for the stand mixer are sadly fantastic

“Adoner” is when he’s summering on Cape Breton

“Shudder, radically opposed to the
conventional idea of experience [Erlebnis], provides no particular satisfaction for the I; it bears no similarity to desire. Rather it is a memento of the liquidation of the I, which, shaken, perceives its own limitedness and finitude”

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

10.1 ASAP Journal call for editors 2025 short.docx ASAP/Journal Editor-in-Chief Search ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present seeks applications for the next editor(s)-in-chief of the award-winning ASAP/Journal. Elizabeth Ho w...

ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present seeks applications for the next editor(s)-in-chief of the award-winning ASAP/Journal.

Please see more information below!

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bummer Lumet double-feature w/ Anderson Tapes?

iN mY wOrK tHe mOnStEr iS tHe oThEr

Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

free tip to other college teachers — ChatGPT seems to really struggle with the question “Why might this approach to this topic be interesting to someone who is not you?”

A yellow cover with a man in a mask and a debutante with a black line over her eyes. The book is titled "The Veiled Prophet"; subhead "Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis" by Devin Thomas O'Shea.

check it out

me at 37y/o: wait

a lyric excerpt of Lil Wayne’s “Money On My Mind”: “Dear Mr. Toilet / I’m The Shit”

me at 20y/o: this guy is the best rapper alive