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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 4d

God bless art. I love going from a room of septuagenarian nature lovers to a room of late teen/early twenties here to listen to a Broadway playwright. #DecaturBookFestival

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 4d

I love nature lovers.
Presenter: There’s a waterfall in Tucker
Audience Member (as if it was church): That’s right!
#DecaturBookFestival

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 5d

Just got an hour of wisdom from Saeed Jones and Victoria Chang. So glad that the #DecaturBookFestival is looking more like its old self this year.

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 10d

Important to note this 2024 quote from new TikTok America majority stakeholder regarding AI: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 11d

Listen, I’m really enjoying The Secret of Secrets. It’s a great Langdon book, especially after the dud that was Origin. However, I’m begging Dan Brown to just leave women out of the next one. No women would be better than his current depictions.

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 12d

I want you all to know that this isn’t based on outside economists. This is based on Trump Commerce data. I don’t know why the Forbes team is insistent on simping in their headline writing when they know people often won’t click in to see the truth of reporting within the article.

Forbes @forbes.com · 13d

One economist noted a revision to economic growth—nearly 1% above initial reports—was “outside the norm.”

U.S. Economy Stronger Than Reported Through Second Quarter As Spending Rose

One economist noted a revision to economic growth—nearly 1% above initial reports—was “outside the norm.”

www.forbes.com

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve been reading the essays in Edwin Frank’s Stranger Than Fiction alongside their key texts, and I’m developing a theory that male literature stopped being interesting when straight men started passing the Bechdel Test

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 13d

And that’s right, she contains multitudes

A screenshot of my last two posts: my ravings about The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch and my reflections on 1960s televised intellectual debates.

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 13d

Okay, I’ve been watching some 1960s/1970s intellectual debate videos/documentaries (Buckley&Baldwin, Mailer&Vidal, Town Bloody Hall). I want the time back that mean little straight men entered the lions’ den. Not debating college kids ten years their junior.

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 15d

Yall, I don’t know that I’ve felt this level of “scream at every line of dialogue”ness since RWRB. @sararaaschbooks.com, you DID that #BookSky #Romantasy

Holding a copy of The Entanglement of Rival Wizards

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 15d

This is the same tiny slip they send to all RuPaul contestants

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 15d

Y’all, this fortune cookie just called me a slur

Holding a fortune cookie slip that reads, “You should enhance your feminine side at this time.”

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 15d

Finished my fourth @thebookerprizes.com longlister in time for today’s shortlist announcement #BookSky #BookerPrize

A screenshot of the Booker Prize longlist

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 21d

A kid: *has their Gimkit character named Fetty Wap*
Me: What do y’all know about Fetty Wap
A kid: He greeted me very kindly. He was like, “Hey, what’s up? Hello.”

#AdventuresInTeaching #TeacherSky

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 24d

Okay, I’m back to be confused about the @nationalbook.bsky.social list again. How can The Sisters be a nominee this year if it seems like it was published in Sweden in 2023?

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 24d

As always, a big thank you to @chrisrd19.bsky.social for editing. Consider following, rating, and dropping a comment! ❤️

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 24d

And, if you’re an absolute little weirdo, you can even listen on PodBean! #Podcast #BookSky #MovieSky #PopCulture

Verbalize Scare Quotes: Stranger Faces

Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century. Normalcy is (maybe) returning to the Worst Cen...

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 24d

You can also check @nosferatoos.bsky.social and me out on Spotify #Podcast #BookSky #MovieSky #PopCulture

Verbalize Scare Quotes: Stranger Faces

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 24d

Y’all, it’s time for another episode of The Worst Century, and I think this is our smartest one yet. @namwalien.bsky.social would be proud.

Verbalize Scare Quotes: Stranger Faces

Podcast Episode · The Worst Century · 09/14/2025 · 1h 39m

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 25d

I want folks like Ti West and Zach Cregger to win the first Nobel Prize in film for making horror movies that just do their job of being wacked out fun.

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 25d

Time for the second part of my late night double feature. Catching this one before it’s out of theaters to see what everyone is talking about. #MovieSky

Screenshot of a digital ticket stub for Weapons

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 25d

In texts I sent that sound like my momma: Cooper [Hoffman] looks and sounds so much like his daddy

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 25d

Thought if I’m gonna be living in a fascist state, I might as well do research.

Screenshot of my digital ticket stub for The Long Walk

Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 25d

A new episode of the pod, on faces, drops tomorrow. @nosferatoos.bsky.social and I look at the writings of @namwalien.bsky.social and a quartet of movies from the century. Check the list here: boxd.it/OM604 #Podcast #BookSky #PopCulture

The Worst Century, Episode 9

The movies we watched to discuss the concept of faces.

boxd.it

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Critical Gayze @criticalgayze.bsky.social · 25d

For anyone who was as miffed by the #NationalBookAward as me, @aaknopf.bsky.social has A Guardian and a Thief “Read Now” on @netgalley.bsky.social for a week #BookSky

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