Dr Michigan Christie
profclbrown.bsky.social
Dr Michigan Christie
@profclbrown.bsky.social
Aspiring badass. Books, Detroit, judgment/decision research, social change, history, comparative religion, POTTERY, football/basketball, music/theatre/opera, historic clothing. Newly-retired UM professor. Your mom, if your mom swears like a sailor.
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks foe the duration of the strike. Here’s a jackdaw? It’s outside a non-SBX in Copenhagen
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I haven’t been to a bookstore in nearly 3 months (sabbatical in Europe).
But I am coming back to the US on Saturday.

What have you acquired in that period that I must must read? 📚💙 #booksky

Bonus if I can get it at #literatibookstore in Ann Arbor MI

Algorithm photo of Oodi library in Helsinki
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We weren’t either lord knows. She’s retired at her trainer’s living her best life at 27
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tuscan cat energy, and American human prayers
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
My husband points out that ”Once in a Lifetime” (#TalkingHeads, 1980) was closer in time to The Andrews Sisters’ “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” than to the present day.

He was wearing this historic t-shirt when he figured this out.
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Favorite game with my #FashionHistory daughter when travelling: a) text photos of portraits at museums b) competing guesses c) smallest deviation wins

Today at the Royal Palace in Stockholm I found this one, not a challenge as to date (1812), but it’s really lovely (zoom in for sleeve detail)
September 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yes but also this moment (post Rose Bowl)
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Oh SURE, @cnn.com, up to this moment we have been doing just fine but TODAY Pritzker is generating a national crisis. You know, by talking.
August 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Without downloading anything new, where are you at mentally?

(As you see, I have gone Full Chuck Schumer. Never go Full Chuck Schumer.)
August 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Here is my raptor friend to cheer you up, 2021 my office in California
July 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
From our balcony in Detroit there are 4-5 sources for fireworks. But they seem very far away, as though we were seeing 40-50 years into the past, like looking into our chi
July 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
20-day TBR book challenge.💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, list, stack, e-list, library hold… wherever! One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. 6/20

No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#BookSky #20TBRbookchallenge
June 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
20-day TBR book challenge.💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, list, stack, e-list, library hold… wherever! One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. 5/20

No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#BookSky #20TBRbookchallenge
June 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This one is also waaay up there
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What athlete’s expression will stay with you the rest of your life? (Sorry not basketball!)
June 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
20-day TBR book challenge.

Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, list, stack, e-list, library hold… wherever! One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. 4/20

No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#BookSky #20TBRbookchallenge
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
20-day TBR book challenge.

Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, list, stack, e-list, library hold… wherever! One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. 3/20

No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#BookSky #20TBRbookchallenge
June 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
20-day TBR book challenge.

Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, list, stack, e-list, library hold… wherever! One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. 2/20

No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#BookSky #20TBRbookchallenge
June 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The other walls have more shelves:)
June 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
20-day TBR book challenge.

Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, list, stack, e-list, library hold… wherever! One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. 1/20

No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#BookSky #20TBRbookchallenge
June 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I’m at Comerica but seeing as how it is raining into my beer, I am not optimistic
June 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
@blacktopkid.bsky.social Happy Pub Day I am already casting the movie in my head.

I have the ebook but am toying with taking the audiobook with me on my next cross country trip as it would be impossible to fall asleep while listening.

Everybody else get in on this one!
June 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Best updo at the awards, and a special award for best scampering onto the stage
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Kudos to Cole Escola for their Tony win tonight and their exquisitely bridal updo. Funniest human I ever saw on stage #tonyawards
June 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM