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English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress: The New York Hippodrome: A Kaleidoscopic Cultural History. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Here it is, folks: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/hippodr...

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 10h

So that's a decent phonetic approximation? Because it's something I really treasure.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 10h

The way that little old ladies who lived there all their lives say it -- "mn-gum-reh"? -- is marvelous.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

If we’re talking regionally, “Mobile” and “Montgomery” are big ones

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Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social · 1d

1901. Buffalo. Come ride "A Trip to the Moon."

Board a winged airship. Let Fred Thompson and Skip Dundy convey you from Niagara Falls to the Kingdom of the Moon. Meet the tiny Selenites.

Students of amusement rides, & of Moon travel pop culture, know of this, but this photo is new to me.

Photo with handwritten caption reading: "C - Gorga; A Trip to the Moon; Copyright 1901 by Frederic Thompson." It depicts several persons within a cave-like tunnel, a theatrical set representing an underground city on the Moon. Actors representing one tall man and six little men are dressed in costumes including boots, tights, baggy shorts, tight-fitting shirts, and shiny helmets. From The New York Public Library Digital Collections. The NYPL entitles this photo "Gorge - A Trip to the Moon," but I think Thompson's handwriting looks more like "Gorga." I could be wrong.

Image of caption text, accompanying the photo I have also attached to this tweet. Both the photo, which is in the public domain, and the caption have been provided by the New York Public Library Digital Collection. Quoting: For the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American exposition, [Frederic] Thompson first teamed up with rival showman Elmer "Skip" Dundy. It was here that they first took their visitors on "A Trip to the Moon". Thompson & Dundy’s amusement was strongly inspired by H.G. Wells' science fiction story "The First Men in the Moon", which had been published in serial form in Cosmopolitan some months before the Pan-American fair. The amusement would later become the cornerstone of Luna Park. "A Trip to the Moon" used modern technologies such as electricity, illumination and hydraulics to give its customers the sensation of flying in a winged ship. Upon arrival, visitors could actually participate in the theatrical setting depicting the Kingdom of the Man in the Moon. There, they viewed a musical show and the monstrous "Moon Calf", sampled green cheese offered by the midget population, and shopped in a lunar marketplace.

Detail from photo of "A Trip to the Moon" by Frederic Thompson. This version has been enhanced by contrast stretching. It depicts several persons within a cave-like tunnel, a theatrical set representing an underground city on the Moon. Actors representing one tall man and six little men are dressed in costumes including boots, tights, baggy shorts, tight-fitting shirts, and shiny helmets. From The New York Public Library Digital Collections. The NYPL entitles this photo "Gorge - A Trip to the Moon."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

Freida Parton says she did not mean to scare anyone when asking for prayers for her older sister, Dolly:

Freida Parton
“I want to clear something up. I didn't mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

Wow I think I'll need to read Will There Ever Be Another You? in small bites because it's making me feel a little bit dissociative myself.

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sending up all my lapsed catholic liberal professor prayers.

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell yes. I don't have regular Oscar Meyer- type dogs any more because the protein content is atrocious, but they're so good with some blue box Kraft.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite one is Salvador Dali being friends with Alice Cooper.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 1d

The hits keep coming, but my library app also just dropped the new @tricialockwood.bsky.social and the new Pynchon. Time for a reading break!

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Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social · 1d

@bookshop.org has free shipping today and tomorrow! Have you read my book yet? It is encouraging, and entertaining, and very damn topical.

Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social · Mar 24

Good morning! I wrote a biography of someone who helped found the women's rights movement in the 1850s, and kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats.

Amelia Bloomer

A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

Traveling while Black during Jim Crow was about survival as well as mobility. The Green Book Project website documents that story. Share your family’s Green Book memories and help us preserve this rich history:
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 3d

Do me a favor and scroll until you get to the body-hair bodysuits.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

New all the wrong takeaways from the Hunger Games lookbook just dropped

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show

The complete Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear fashion show now on Vogue Runway.

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, One Battle After Another, huh?!

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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 5d

Learn as much as you can about perimenopause, which you're either on the verge of or going through. If you're neurodivergent, a bunch of the strategies you've put in place will likely get wobbly and unreliable.

Get your friend stuff together! Be a good friend, make good friends.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 5d

When you can play a really good word with every letter in Spelling Bee except the center :(

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 6d

Adding my prayer as a fan who's watched a game with a standing-room ticket at Wrigley, from rooftop bleachers across Addison, and on a black and white TV when they only had day games.

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 6d

Play ball. Let’s go, Cubs. Let’s not let this be the last game of the year.

Wrigley Field from my usual upper deck seat.

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh, this is such a good question. Mall attached to a hotel/ convention center has been a setting pretty frequently, often with banks of elevators that only go to certain floors or move laterally.

merritt @merrittk.com · 7d

are there any fictional places that recur in your dreams? i often dream about a concrete staircase like you might find in a parking garage that goes down miles into the earth. at the bottom people are either partying at an avant garde art show or sheltering from the apocalypse

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 7d

Important correction: it shouldn't be Prufrock. It's Prufrock Lobster!

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 7d

When someone leaves an incorrectly assembled Lego crab on your classroom table on the day you teach dramatic monologues, you name it Prufrock and adopt it.

A Lego crustacean sits on a grey table, surrounded on three sides by the instructions for its assembly

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 7d

When someone leaves an incorrectly assembled Lego crab on your classroom table on the day you teach dramatic monologues, you name it Prufrock and adopt it.

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 7d

We are seeing that students in class mostly cite articles from predatory journals because so many papers are published in them and they are open access!

They come up quickly in their searches and are immediately accessible.

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 8d

The runner-up for the 2025 MSA Prize for edited collections and anthologies is Jonathan Najarian, editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture.

Congratulations Jonathan and the University of Mississippi Press!

Comics and Modernism

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZEContributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Naja...

www.upress.state.ms.us

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 9d

Would love to hear why it is so important to you.

Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 9d

Yay! But I hope you've been getting dissertation work done too.