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Greg Dember

@gregdember.bsky.social

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Author of Say Hello to Metamodernism! https://amzn.to/4eeuHLN Interests: Most topics, metamodernism, progressive but plays well with others, oddball with a soft spot for normals. Yale. Seattle. Musician/Singer/Songwriter/Writer/Reader/Listener

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 4h

Ha! If you had male vocal chords at your disposal, you would be the best Trump imitator out there. So great!

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 21h

Whenever MAGAs testify, questions should be framed as "... and if you don't answer yes or no, it will be assumed that your answer is no."

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 3d

I'm an indie rock and classic rock fan and pretty picky about music and not much of a pop fan, and yet I still recognize that Taylor Swift has a bunch of great songs, especially (by my tastes) in her last 4 or 5 albums. I think the people who dismiss her show their own ignorance.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 7d

Out of curiosity, do they come into their interactions with you already knowing that you've left the fold and become a Democrat, or do they expect the Joe Wash who'd they known before?

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sure he'll go on to something bigger and better. Totally CBS's loss.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 7d

Was he any good at guitar?

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 10d

Do you imagine that the people who are reacting to Trump on Bluesky voted for him?

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 15d

Relevant to me:
Fred Meyer! (shit)
Paramount theater (shit)
Chase (shit)

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 16d

"They" -- ?????

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 18d

This'll cheer you right up!

Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 18d

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

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Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.social · 18d

My upcoming book on Sufjan Stevens' "Carrie & Lowell" is now available for preorder from my favorite bookstore, Powell's Books in Portland. www.powells.com/book/sufjan-...

Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell | Powell's Books

Upon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both...

www.powells.com

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 18d

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 21d

Excuse me... you'd have to get up to maybe age 70 to find anyone who talks like that.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 21d

"My love"
"My old man"

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 21d

I'm 60, and while it didn't occur to me that it was fake, I did think "How quaint that the Mormons in Utah still talk like characters on the Andy Griffith Show."

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 22d

Yes, watching Barbarians confirmed that he has some sort of issue with "old" or perhaps "post-sexual" women. (Trying to think of a single category that covers the monster in both movies. I'm certain they belong in a category together but I don't have a pithy term for it.)

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 22d

I experienced the Zach Cregger films exactly like you did! Including watching Barbarians second for the reason you did. In each film he destroys an initially compellingly creepy/scary premise by then providing lazy, meaning-draining answers to the mysteries that underlay the tension he had created.

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 22d

The next Congressional elections will in in November of 2026, not this November.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 22d

I mean, for that matter, why do we have a Vice President named "J.D." ?

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote this metamodern analysis of "Heroes," a short story by O.G. Rose.

whatismetamodern.com/fiction/hero...

A Metamodern Reading of "Heroes" – Short Story by O.G. Rose

The opening story of Under the Wing, “Heroes,” is available to read online as a kind of teaser for the book, which has given me the wonderful opportunity to write not just a review/preview but an actu...

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 1

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reading and writing race in law and literature

Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 25d

They always talk about "The Radical Left" as if it's the super-scary fringe of the fringe, but then they'll turn around and include Adam Schiff and Gretchen Whitmer in this group.

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 28d

Oh, and happy birthday!

Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 28d

Wow! You've got a nice release schedule, with our Sufjan book then coming out in February!

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Greg Dember @gregdember.bsky.social · 29d

As an FBI and CIA secret agent, that was one of Don's special tricks.😆