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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers’ most ICE-coded chud needs a recent immigrant to rescue the team. Again.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 2d

Only Advil? Solid win.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 4d

God also didn’t hit on Stanford grad students in the 90s

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 4d

I respect that James Gunn, even when he’s going full dorky anti-fascism in this season of Peacemaker, can’t resist a good sight gag. If only I didn’t think that Nazi crocs would probably sell pretty well in our dimension right now.

Floating croc shoe with a small Nazi insignia

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 4d

I should be watching a baseball game right now but a book will do.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 5d

I have some questions about the marginal utility of his film criticism.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 7d

Treinen in for the 9th because Dodgers don't need a "save," they need a warfighter who can kill a five-run lead and break things.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 9d

William Friedkin directed the Exorcist and this suckling pig aspic thing from Sorcerer is clearly the most terrifying shot of his career.

Picture of a glazed roasted suckling pig and pears

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 10d

low-key obsessed with how hard their publicists must work to make sure they have no internet footprint on Israel and are never, ever asked . . .

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 11d

Tomorrow! Pynchon & PTA! Join Peter Coviello as he discusses his book VINELAND REREAD w/ John Plotz and Ethan Warren after a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's *One Battle After Another* at West Newton Cinema. tinyurl.com/3n2kcvzj
@columbiaup.bsky.social

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 10d

Organic DMZ

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11d

Now that the Wall Street Journal has reviewed my book on slow motion, do you think I can pitch them an op-ed on Modern Monetary Theory?

Serious thanks to @columbiaup.bsky.social and @philipleventhal.bsky.social for making this happen.

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Downtime’ Review: Taking It Slow at the Movies

The visual effect of slow motion has a long history in film. In recent years it has become a cinematic commonplace.

www.wsj.com

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11d

would be equally cool if there was a park slope polyamory book written by a goose

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11d

Dude I teach Faulkner almost every semester. Does that count?

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11d

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11d

Downtime is here. cup.columbia.edu/book/downtim...

Downtime | Columbia University Press

Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or oth... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11d

Now that the Wall Street Journal has reviewed my book on slow motion, do you think I can pitch them an op-ed on Modern Monetary Theory?

Serious thanks to @columbiaup.bsky.social and @philipleventhal.bsky.social for making this happen.

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Downtime’ Review: Taking It Slow at the Movies

The visual effect of slow motion has a long history in film. In recent years it has become a cinematic commonplace.

www.wsj.com

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 14d

Too bad "rapture" is already taken

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 15d

Got one of these but instead of “stupid” it says “Antichrist”

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 15d

also, my daughter vomited all over me on our way out of a ramen shop

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 15d

this is the rosh hashanah/rapture double-feature we need

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 18d

Ezra Pound*s*

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 20d

Reposting for the “I have to care about Jimmy Kimmel for why now?” rush…

Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 21d

I almost only listen to leftist baseball podcasts but that’s just me. So many thanks to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for letting me talk about Downtime. Alix is the best reader and not surprisingly the best here too. Book is available from @columbiaup.bsky.social.

Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 21d

Also available here:

Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion

The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion

bookshop.org

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 21d

I almost only listen to leftist baseball podcasts but that’s just me. So many thanks to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for letting me talk about Downtime. Alix is the best reader and not surprisingly the best here too. Book is available from @columbiaup.bsky.social.

Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 21d

Feedly works for me

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