Not sure the Simpsons illustrators ever topped Zombie Shakespeare.

lol

I authentically enjoy Journey. I cannot stand Foreigner. If they split it into two sets with a costume change in the middle... sure! But I will not sit through an encore of Jukebox Hero to get to a second encore of Anyway You Want It.

Are they called Forjourner?

!!

I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.

The mustache takes 35 years off.

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

It's my band! With a glowing mushroom that was the stage property of a different band. We're playing our first show in 18 months in Easthampton, MA at The Marigold, and Peter Mulvey be there, too. I for one am using this as motivation to stay on track until mid-November. No promises after that.

Although I remember it being way up on the exterior wall.

This sign has tortured me for many many years and I am glad to have found a fellow sufferer (besides my wife and children who are likewise afflicted by it).

not in the alpha sector

It is an embarrassing thing to name. It also has a very strong code of ethics which means that I must never consult you about these things (which btw I would not anyway, because uh I already know that stuff).

I don't know if you do Learned League but there was a Q about a "wildly successful" self-help book a couple of days ago and I was like... ??

Just accidentally replied-all to the department list-serv via email for the first time in my life. I feel like this should start the clock on forced retirement.

My university canceled its library subscription to Project MUSE, making it harder for me to do research, but enrolled all us faculty in Salesforce

That is exactly the kind of thing it was made for! Glad to hear it.

My gym teacher married another gym teacher.

The school year begins and ends and begins again. But map content is forever. Here's a story in the @umassamherst.bsky.social magazine about the map at @folger.edu I helped to script. (A few obscure jokes made it onto the thumbnail!) -- www.umass.edu/magazine/ext...

I think we can all agree that the extended discussion of Lacan’s analysis of “The Purloined Letter” was one of the low points of last summer’s Democratic convention.

I did not think I would live to see a day when recalled radioactive shrimp and cash bribes inside of potato chip bags would come together in one glorious explosion of content, but I have.

this is my plan for saturday in a similarly small place

Truly a satisfying documentary, btw. Such a literalist. "My wife, she told me it was crazy to drive my motorcycle in the rain. But I survived. And that's what inspired the song about me driving my motorcycle in the rain and surviving and my wife telling me I was crazy." Love it. A fan since age 6.

"My mother used to tell me, 'The quality of mercy is not strained.'" -- Billy Joel in the Billy Joel documentary, reflecting on life after he broke up with Christie Brinkley.