Adam Golub

Del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) is an absolute gift for cultural analysts and really a wonderful one to help teach cultural reception studies.

In some good book news this morning, Books We Love is live! I have a bunch of recommendations in here.

I’m holding my daughter in front of a lake. She’s bundled up for cooler weather. I’m finally able to wear a vest and warm shirt.

Getting our cold weather fix up at Lake Arrowhead.

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

“The copy that sold on Thursday was found last year under a stack of old newspapers in a cardboard box by three unnamed brothers in northern California while they were going through their late mother’s attic. Their mother had bought the comic when she was nine years old and living in San Francisco”

Theme Park Fandom: Spatial Transmedia, Materiality and Participatory Cultures Theme Park Fandom argues that serious study of theme parks and their adult fans has much to tell us about contemporary transmediality and convergence, themed and immersive spaces, and audience relatio...

My book Theme Park Fandom is coming out in a much more affordable paperback edition. Pre-order here:

www.routledge.com/Theme-Park-F...

There are some critics that should be forced to memorize this and recite it daily.

My favorite opening credits come from the 1931 Frankenstein because they're so intent on creating a mystery around the monster that they credit him with "?" as if to say "Ooooh, who could it be? We don't knooowwwww... Is it even an actor?? Oooooh"

Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article) In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.

An incredible track-by-track oral history of Patti Smith’s “Horses,” which turns 50 tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I keep seeing webinars where people organize their books by color.

I don’t understand how you locate books with that organization. If I were looking for Richard White’s Middle Ground, would I need to remember that it has a red cover and is organized in the Red section under White?

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.

I appeared live on the Canadian radio show "Alberta at Noon" to talk about doppelgangers. The other guest was photographer Francois Brunelle, who takes photos of nonbiological doubles for his "I'm Not a Lookalike" project. Listeners called in with lookalike stories. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Are we there yet? #art #oilpainting

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

A haunted house but it's just your tired body

Emma Thompson is a queen.

My daughter Autumn (3.5) has been requesting Stevie Nicks and asking to watch the X-Files. I’m on cloud nine over here.

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs

"Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin fear entire academic departments may be on the chopping block after the university quietly appointed a committee charged with studying the restructuring of its liberal arts programs...none from the departments where cuts are feared." bit.ly/43rfyDt

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

#NoKings Miami!

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

Tickets acquired for Rush at the Forum…

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

Photo from behind of me and my 3-year-old daughter, walking down the street, holding hands, me in a blue T-shirt and gray pants, she in a checkered pink dress

My world is mainly right here.

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland