🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐
@rexparker.bsky.social
Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker
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At least twice a day I want to hurl myself off a bridge or something and then my toddler wanders over and says, like, “Mama, I love Woodstock, who is a veeeerrey small bird, but I don’t know the name of the one who is his dog friend?” and I’m like, oh, oh my god, the unrelenting superbloom of life!!
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
At least twice a day I want to hurl myself off a bridge or something and then my toddler wanders over and says, like, “Mama, I love Woodstock, who is a veeeerrey small bird, but I don’t know the name of the one who is his dog friend?” and I’m like, oh, oh my god, the unrelenting superbloom of life!!
Someone sent me Lagavulin (scotch) because I mentioned it on my blog so then I joked that I’m just gonna start saying things I like and hope they magically appear. One of my hypothetical examples: chocolate chip cookies!
Today:
Today:
February 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Someone sent me Lagavulin (scotch) because I mentioned it on my blog so then I joked that I’m just gonna start saying things I like and hope they magically appear. One of my hypothetical examples: chocolate chip cookies!
Today:
Today:
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This is some genuinely psycho shit...
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
“Dawson’s Creek” got me through a Very rough patch in my life. Guilty pleasure, emphasis on “pleasure.”
My mom took me to see “Harold & Maude” when I was far-too-young years old. Absolute “welcome to Cinema, kid” stuff.
RIP JVDB & Bud Cort
My mom took me to see “Harold & Maude” when I was far-too-young years old. Absolute “welcome to Cinema, kid” stuff.
RIP JVDB & Bud Cort
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
“Dawson’s Creek” got me through a Very rough patch in my life. Guilty pleasure, emphasis on “pleasure.”
My mom took me to see “Harold & Maude” when I was far-too-young years old. Absolute “welcome to Cinema, kid” stuff.
RIP JVDB & Bud Cort
My mom took me to see “Harold & Maude” when I was far-too-young years old. Absolute “welcome to Cinema, kid” stuff.
RIP JVDB & Bud Cort
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also if you’re 45 and haven’t gotten a colonoscopy don’t make me pull this car over and smack you
February 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
also if you’re 45 and haven’t gotten a colonoscopy don’t make me pull this car over and smack you
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Are you a WordPress guru, especially when it comes to online magazines? Are you available ASAP for a few hours of consultation for a problem I cannot solve? Prefer someone local to Minneapolis, please, who can provide a reference ASAP too. DM me with experience and rate.
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Are you a WordPress guru, especially when it comes to online magazines? Are you available ASAP for a few hours of consultation for a problem I cannot solve? Prefer someone local to Minneapolis, please, who can provide a reference ASAP too. DM me with experience and rate.
Spent a good 1/2 hour of class today discussing my Dr Manhattan-is-Charlie-Brown theory. I tried to just mention it lightly in passing but my students were Not letting it go. Got many new converts, I’m proud to say 😃
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Spent a good 1/2 hour of class today discussing my Dr Manhattan-is-Charlie-Brown theory. I tried to just mention it lightly in passing but my students were Not letting it go. Got many new converts, I’m proud to say 😃
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
I wish Starr were still alive so he could suffer more public humiliation for being a fraudulent malevolence.
Guess I’ll have to be content w/ the knowledge that he’s rotting in the 9th ring of hell.
Guess I’ll have to be content w/ the knowledge that he’s rotting in the 9th ring of hell.
NEW: In addition to corresponding with Jeffery Epstein during the interview process to become Baylor president, DOJ emails reveal that Ken Starr hosted Epstein and his girlfriend Karyna Shuliak in Waco, on Baylor's campus in 2012 during Starr's presidency.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
'Come see me': Ex-Baylor president hosted Epstein at Waco campus in 2012
Newly released emails confirm an even deeper history between Epstein and Starr.
www.chron.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I wish Starr were still alive so he could suffer more public humiliation for being a fraudulent malevolence.
Guess I’ll have to be content w/ the knowledge that he’s rotting in the 9th ring of hell.
Guess I’ll have to be content w/ the knowledge that he’s rotting in the 9th ring of hell.
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If the Seahawks SuperBowl parade could turn into the world’s largest Ice Out rally, that would do wonders for my mood. I’m already seeing some crowd signs.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
If the Seahawks SuperBowl parade could turn into the world’s largest Ice Out rally, that would do wonders for my mood. I’m already seeing some crowd signs.
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This is so good, it almost makes me want to solve some cryptic crosswords. (Almost.)
Gonna spoil this now! (No. 304)
The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)
Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”
(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)
Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”
(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
This is so good, it almost makes me want to solve some cryptic crosswords. (Almost.)
NOT wearing long underwear, AMA
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 PM
NOT wearing long underwear, AMA
Today in teaching: Starting the most currently relevant piece of medieval literature—I get to pontificate about Fraud (the lowest reaches of Hell; also the current federal government, A.I. etc.) for two weeks, woo hoo!
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Today in teaching: Starting the most currently relevant piece of medieval literature—I get to pontificate about Fraud (the lowest reaches of Hell; also the current federal government, A.I. etc.) for two weeks, woo hoo!
Gonna spoil this now! (No. 304)
The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)
Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”
(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)
Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”
(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Gonna spoil this now! (No. 304)
The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)
Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”
(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)
Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”
(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
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Stephens laments that America has stopped decrying international abuses.
There is a place where this still happens: college campuses. In fact Stephens may remember one recent movement, the pro-Palestine cause, tho he seemed pretty happy to see it ground to dust.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
There is a place where this still happens: college campuses. In fact Stephens may remember one recent movement, the pro-Palestine cause, tho he seemed pretty happy to see it ground to dust.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
Opinion | Dissidents Are Silenced, and the West Moves On
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Stephens laments that America has stopped decrying international abuses.
There is a place where this still happens: college campuses. In fact Stephens may remember one recent movement, the pro-Palestine cause, tho he seemed pretty happy to see it ground to dust.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
There is a place where this still happens: college campuses. In fact Stephens may remember one recent movement, the pro-Palestine cause, tho he seemed pretty happy to see it ground to dust.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
The key word here is “imagine,” something your definitely-a-robot Claude definitely can’t do
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The key word here is “imagine,” something your definitely-a-robot Claude definitely can’t do
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, you
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, you
“I can’t understand the words he’s singing!”
My brother I have loved Cocteau Twins for decades and literally the only words I’ve ever understood are “Heaven or Las Vegas” and that’s only because they’re in the damn title, unclench and feel the joy! ❤️🎶
My brother I have loved Cocteau Twins for decades and literally the only words I’ve ever understood are “Heaven or Las Vegas” and that’s only because they’re in the damn title, unclench and feel the joy! ❤️🎶
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
“I can’t understand the words he’s singing!”
My brother I have loved Cocteau Twins for decades and literally the only words I’ve ever understood are “Heaven or Las Vegas” and that’s only because they’re in the damn title, unclench and feel the joy! ❤️🎶
My brother I have loved Cocteau Twins for decades and literally the only words I’ve ever understood are “Heaven or Las Vegas” and that’s only because they’re in the damn title, unclench and feel the joy! ❤️🎶
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
February 11, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
BALMY!
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 AM
BALMY!
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
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Emerging from 2-month hibernation to throw more vintage paperbacks at you!
First, an announcement: MURDER! That’s right, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback!
#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #bookcoverart
salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
First, an announcement: MURDER! That’s right, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback!
#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #bookcoverart
salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Emerging from 2-month hibernation to throw more vintage paperbacks at you!
First, an announcement: MURDER! That’s right, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback!
#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #bookcoverart
salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
First, an announcement: MURDER! That’s right, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback!
#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #bookcoverart
salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
Is that a lot?
NEW: Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin tells Axios in an interview.
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Is that a lot?
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
See how easy!
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
See how easy!