David B Hobbs

so excited by the idea of a “Koepp Foestt”

wearing this to Outback

Michael Flynn Jr. posing in a new pair of AE jeans he bought.

A man walks around with an American Eagle shopping bag.

I should state two things at the outset.

First, I never comment on womenswear because I don't know anything about it. This thread isn't actually about Sweeney's jeans (sorry, I lied). But in the last few days, I've seen grown men buying American Eagle jeans and I simply can't abide.

Aerial photo of the destruction of Gaza City by Heidi Levine

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

hearing this was named the most important tiktok ever for the 3rd year in a row

vt.tiktok.com/ZSSUjGfkD/

Percival Everett got me with the high concept novels, but his westerns kept me 💙🩵

& last year the MLA (drawing, iirc, on National Humanities Alliance data) found that English majors’ career earnings were in line with the average for all/any college major: www.maps.mla.org/content/down...

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

but was the boyfriend in the shower??

amen homie

Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.

I wrote about the humane, profound and until now quite difficult to find poetry of Essex Hemphill for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

remember when the endowment couldn’t possibly be touched so we must layoff faculty

Kim Petras in the Heart To Break video looking plaintive and sitting on a window sill

would I be happier if I just talked myself into liking adult animation

I do feel like we’re in a desperate Aboutness crisis

this is such such good news

or an excuse to have Americans be in Europe!

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

cover of a forthcoming anthology of “Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance” that is entitled “Elbows Up!” a hockey catchphrase popularized by Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings

humiliating national culture we’ve got here

screenshot of the abstract of DW Winnicott’s “Psycho-somatic Disorder Reconsidered” essay, which argues that asthma is related to “the child’s management of fantasies of love and hate”

reigniting my beef with Winnicott

I know, I’m joking

I wondered if I’d missed a Fronald D’j Brump news cycle

The cover for the upcoming volume "The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us"

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

The Cool Prof sat on the edge of my desk and tied a cherry stem into a knot with her tongue while I was reading John Wilmot’s poetry and somehow I’m the asshole

Snoid is actually based on Freddie DeBoer

made a playlist for my fav songs from your forty best albums of the year so far (am also doing a Girls rewatch)

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") Close Readings · Episode

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIz...

has anyone read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_i...

14y/o me couldn’t believe that “Love Explosion” wasn’t a single

I’ll still defend Maladroit’s B-side!

"At the end of the day, I don't think my education is as important as the lives of people in Gaza who are being murdered and intentionally starved right now."

hellgatenyc.com/columbia-sus...