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Alyx Vesey
@alyxvesey.bsky.social
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Journalism and Creative Media Professor at the University of Alabama. Author of Extending Play (OUP, 2023). Popular Music Books In Process VJ. Feminist Music Geek. Pronouns: she/her/hers. Last name: vee-zee.
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 7h
Samin Nosrat, your Tuscan bean and kale soup has never let me down 🥣🤌🏻
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 13h
😮‍💨
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 15h
“They didn’t cite me”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.
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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 16h
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d
I remember one time in grad school, we got lost at dusk and there was some cornfed hooligans yukking it up and I was afraid we had stumbled into a Children of the Corn situation
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d
Of course I do! He riffs on this for a while in the between-song banter.
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d
🙂‍↕️ FYI, their Storytellers rocks. They get to do “You Don’t Know How It Feels” uncensored.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhqu...
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS : US TV 1999
YouTube video by YEBISU_VIDEO
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d
My sabbatical avatar! I’ve been listening to a Tom album a week this fall. I just revisited Let Me Up this morning.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other .
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d
This groundhog understands
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing says 42 like testing out a weighted vest on a walking trail
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 2d
🤣
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 2d
This is a short story!
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 2d
Bread + Puppet in Tuscaloosa
Picture of Bread + Puppet’s decorated schoolbus with a painted “Our Domestic Resurrection” banner
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 2d
Sometimes being an adult means taking the time to consolidate key rings
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 3d
Ashwaganda go to bed 🥱
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 3d
Writes “& Cats” in Sharpie
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 3d
At 42, I finally understand the financial logic of a trade-in
a woman is standing in a hallway talking to a group of people and asking them what that is .
Alt: Kelli from Insecure saying “You know what that is? Growth.”
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 3d
Tag yourself I’m Michael Ian Black
Funny I Love the 80s meme about being taught history from comedians who moonlighted as VH1 commentators during the early 2000s
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
It’s really weird how Pacey’s storyline with his teacher was framed as a “torrid affair” and not, y’know, predation
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
In this presentation I'm working on, I'm duty-bound to include this especially doofy screenshot of the Nuge
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
You didn't see yourself in Dawson's Hook poster?
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
Bro, listen
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
(I obviously watched the show live during high school, I was absolutely in the show's target demo hashtag Team Jen)
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
A high school friend is currently rewatching Dawson's Creek, a show I used to wake and bake to with my college roommate
a cartoon of a lion with the words " and so we are all connected in the great circle of life " below it
Alt: Mufasa explains the circle of life to young Simba
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
Oh that's right! I forgot about the Simpsons parody. FWIW, I think they're still very watchable. A lot of them are still up online.
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4d
There's also a whole other conversation about how the show frames controversial issues in ways that we view differently now. Grooming, for example.
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