James Smoker
@synthur.bsky.social
Registrar at Regent College | PhD, University of St Andrews | Coleridge, Imagination, and Creation | Theology & the Arts | Canadian
Additional faculty meeting scheduled
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Additional faculty meeting scheduled
The more I get asked questions about AI usage by students (and fellow admins), the more it feels like the “how far is too far” conversation at youth group.
August 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The more I get asked questions about AI usage by students (and fellow admins), the more it feels like the “how far is too far” conversation at youth group.
Women Talking
The Boy and the Heron
Pride and Prejudice
Song of the Sea
True Grit
The Boy and the Heron
Pride and Prejudice
Song of the Sea
True Grit
Okay, everyone quote-tweet this with your five personal favorite films of the 21st century that didn’t make the NYT list.
Mine:
Ali
Anora
Hugo
La La Land
Phoenix
Mine:
Ali
Anora
Hugo
La La Land
Phoenix
June 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Women Talking
The Boy and the Heron
Pride and Prejudice
Song of the Sea
True Grit
The Boy and the Heron
Pride and Prejudice
Song of the Sea
True Grit
Two of the kids were at a birthday party today, so my oldest and I went to a cafe to treat ourselves too. Afternoons like this are wonderful.
June 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Two of the kids were at a birthday party today, so my oldest and I went to a cafe to treat ourselves too. Afternoons like this are wonderful.
Fun to find another True Grit lover out there. Mine are,
1. True Grit
2. Fargo
3. No Country For Old Men
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. The Big Lebowski
1. True Grit
2. Fargo
3. No Country For Old Men
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. The Big Lebowski
Do you have your favourite Coen Brothers’ films?
Here are my top 5. In order of like.
1. True Grit.
2. Miller’s Crossing.
3. Blood Simple.
4. Fargo.
5. Big Lebowski.
#CoenBrothers #movies #films
Here are my top 5. In order of like.
1. True Grit.
2. Miller’s Crossing.
3. Blood Simple.
4. Fargo.
5. Big Lebowski.
#CoenBrothers #movies #films
June 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fun to find another True Grit lover out there. Mine are,
1. True Grit
2. Fargo
3. No Country For Old Men
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. The Big Lebowski
1. True Grit
2. Fargo
3. No Country For Old Men
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. The Big Lebowski
Congrats especially to Yangsze Choo for The Fox Wife! It’s a great read (and I may have a review of it coming up in an issue of Plough Quarterly).
Congratulations to this year's Mythopoeic Awards finalists for Adult Literature!
Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
Minsoo Kang, The Melancholy of Untold History
Deborah K. Vleck, The Society of Guenevere
Nghi Vo, The City in Glass
Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
Minsoo Kang, The Melancholy of Untold History
Deborah K. Vleck, The Society of Guenevere
Nghi Vo, The City in Glass
June 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Congrats especially to Yangsze Choo for The Fox Wife! It’s a great read (and I may have a review of it coming up in an issue of Plough Quarterly).
It’s June 3, so you know what that means. Finally remembering to make a car appointment to get the winter tires off 😎
June 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It’s June 3, so you know what that means. Finally remembering to make a car appointment to get the winter tires off 😎
My dissertation defence is tomorrow. When people ask what my favourite Coleridge poem is, I might say something like Christabel, Frost at Midnight, or Constancy to an Ideal Object. Those are all lies. This is my actual favourite poem of his.
February 18, 2024 at 7:42 PM
My dissertation defence is tomorrow. When people ask what my favourite Coleridge poem is, I might say something like Christabel, Frost at Midnight, or Constancy to an Ideal Object. Those are all lies. This is my actual favourite poem of his.