Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot

No one I asked in the department knows who Bill Withers is, but that's ok, since I cannot tell the difference between Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.

YouTube video by BillWithersVEVO Bill Withers - Use Me (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)

Happy Fall. Enjoy the official theme song of academia by the best single recording artist of the 20th century, Bill Withers.

He refused to be used, and is always a great reminder that you can walk away any time.

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Pretty pleased that @newwordspress.bsky.social will be the venue of my first published poem. It was important to me to get something out in print, and I'm really thrilled that it's going to be with an excellent and very queer journal.

My first poem is only mildly slutty...

The linguistic and textual diversity of SE Asia is just staggering.

This is maybe the first time I've been at a conference where everyone works in languages I don't know. So there goes my next year, since this can never happen again

Some amazing stuff at Princeton as part of the Form and Function show. The symposium kicks off soon here, and I'll be opening with some sort of ramble.

National decline is most evident in watching Americans try to figure out overhead space on planes.

As it now seems likely I'll be here for my career (since basically the only thing that will get me out is a job with tenure), I'm settling in to building what will be a rather mind bending collection over the next few decades. Assuming universities survive.

Just four recent acquisitions I'm moving off my desk. Some Latin Arabic type from Rome; Engraved bio of John of the Cross; Martini's history of China; and another of the only known copies of a unique San Francisco Chinese imprint from the 1880s (probably the most important yet).

In a true first, someone is refusing to accept that I didn't see their email and so ungenerously did not reply within 24 hours with a thank you.

Looking at some mid-Tokugawa movable type, and absolutely chuffed to see something fun. Our printed pre-printed lined paper before printing the text, leading to some funny registration bloopers. Usually the lines and text are all a single form. Not so here

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

It clearly does not matter at all that he is a complete and utter intellectual fraud. As long as he bullies freaks and geeks, his base is content. But we need our scummy Ivy jocks (Newsome) to really ratchet up the mean.

We nerds need to commit ourselves to the gym and being hot. Take their power

The thing to do is then unpack what jocks would say to make Trump impotent. But if we talk about his body, his weasel eyes, etc. then we alienate our own base as well, since we're sensitive about being unathletic, misshapen goblins.

But make no mistake, physically, Trump is one of us. Total Goblin

See the problem is, when the left points out Trump is a rambling idiotic madman, all the right hears is nerd voice. When the right, however, says Biden is stumbling, they get the satisfaction of making fun of nerds for failing at our own area of alleged proficiency.

What a wonderful day of meetings, making more tasks that will somehow be completed during times when I am just in meetings.
We should have more meetings to discuss meetings.

Also worth remembering, as we talk about Free Speech, that the first speakers the current administration targeted were those demanding the freedom and safety of the Palestinian people.

Lol phone corrected Australia to Austria in a false stab at strudel loyalty. Fuck strudel. It's fine but I'll eat a kangaroo first every day.

D gets you Swana, East Asia, Austria and NZ (i.e..colonial), there is only one answer here. H is compelling since you get NYC, but vitally short of good South Indian and Indonesian. I am not sure about Latin America. Food in the region, but you get Korea so there will be good tacos.

It's like one of those tests of people showing faces asking "are they dangerous?"

It's so we can know to hate anyone who is not D

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

I believe we can get there, if we just apply pressure to our skulls in exactly the right way.

The life of the mind sounded much more appealing when the mind was not so fucking exhausted.

Can I redo? Life of the potato? The blooming onion? Any other suggestions?

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

Just finding some Grolier bindings in the stacks

So so fucked.

was talking to my therapist who doesn't know anything about lifting about the gym and it was so funny. she was like "pushing to failure sounds like a very toxic mindset"

They then spend all said money trying to move it to a different ledger 😂

I also know I'm not the only one reading this thread that avoids ever trying to do reimbursement paperwork. My sanity can't take it