Matthew: June Goomba
@teachallamerica.bsky.social
A son of California (Go Bears!)/educator/scholar of things medieval, theoretical, literary, theatrical, Renaissance-ical, political 🏳️🌈🇮🇹🇮🇪🇺🇸
It blows my mind to live in a country big enough to have San Francisco experience its wettest and coldest summer in 50 years while on the other side of the country it’s Satan’s oven.
July 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It blows my mind to live in a country big enough to have San Francisco experience its wettest and coldest summer in 50 years while on the other side of the country it’s Satan’s oven.
When I was a young actor and featured in a theatre company brochure I just found after two decades.
🎶 I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then 🎶
🎶 I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then 🎶
July 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
When I was a young actor and featured in a theatre company brochure I just found after two decades.
🎶 I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then 🎶
🎶 I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then 🎶
Why does one have to win?
July 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Why does one have to win?
Just finished this. My mind will never be the same.
July 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Just finished this. My mind will never be the same.
Just finished this. My mind will never be the same.
July 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just finished this. My mind will never be the same.
The NY Times is *not* happy that Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of NYC.
July 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The NY Times is *not* happy that Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of NYC.
I’m floored. 91.6% of my students passed the AP exam (107 of them took it). I had a great time teaching the course, and the students were so fun. I guess joy really is a good study tool :)
July 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I’m floored. 91.6% of my students passed the AP exam (107 of them took it). I had a great time teaching the course, and the students were so fun. I guess joy really is a good study tool :)
Since late March, I’ve read all of these novels. Historically, I’ve read maybe 1 or 2 per year. Please clap. But quietly. I’m reading. 📚
July 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Since late March, I’ve read all of these novels. Historically, I’ve read maybe 1 or 2 per year. Please clap. But quietly. I’m reading. 📚
The man and the issue of The New Yorker he *will* read.
July 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The man and the issue of The New Yorker he *will* read.
Returning to fun sock content. Couldn’t decide between polka dots and stripes, so why not both?
July 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Returning to fun sock content. Couldn’t decide between polka dots and stripes, so why not both?
Can we just acknowledge the delicious irony of Elon Musk going MAGA then losing his liberal customer base, then the EV tax credit being ended in the disastrous GOP economic bill?
July 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can we just acknowledge the delicious irony of Elon Musk going MAGA then losing his liberal customer base, then the EV tax credit being ended in the disastrous GOP economic bill?
You are looking at an English muffin that I split *perfectly*. I’ve achieved peak adulthood.
June 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
You are looking at an English muffin that I split *perfectly*. I’ve achieved peak adulthood.
Tonight it’s Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ at San Francisco Opera. And, best of all, so much legroom!
June 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Tonight it’s Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ at San Francisco Opera. And, best of all, so much legroom!
After a few sunny days in the upper 60s…summer has returned to San Francisco.
June 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
After a few sunny days in the upper 60s…summer has returned to San Francisco.
The view if you were my program at tonight’s San Francisco Symphony concert…
June 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The view if you were my program at tonight’s San Francisco Symphony concert…
And my hometown DeYoung Museum lent the Met one of my favorite Sargent paintings.
@deyoungmuseum.bsky.social
@deyoungmuseum.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And my hometown DeYoung Museum lent the Met one of my favorite Sargent paintings.
@deyoungmuseum.bsky.social
@deyoungmuseum.bsky.social
At the Met and took in the wonderful John Singer Sargent exhibition.
Museum hack: Get in line for the 10am opening and avoid the crowded galleries.
Museum hack: Get in line for the 10am opening and avoid the crowded galleries.
June 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
At the Met and took in the wonderful John Singer Sargent exhibition.
Museum hack: Get in line for the 10am opening and avoid the crowded galleries.
Museum hack: Get in line for the 10am opening and avoid the crowded galleries.
I would not have fit in a Frank Lloyd Wright home.
June 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I would not have fit in a Frank Lloyd Wright home.
Got to see Audra in “Gypsy” last night. Then took this pic in front of the theatre in such a way that it looks like my glasses are broken.
June 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Got to see Audra in “Gypsy” last night. Then took this pic in front of the theatre in such a way that it looks like my glasses are broken.
This Pride month, let’s teach the young gays that there were gay icons Lady Gaga ever released an album.
June 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This Pride month, let’s teach the young gays that there were gay icons Lady Gaga ever released an album.
Summer has arrived in San Francisco.
June 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Summer has arrived in San Francisco.
I went into this knowing what it was about but wasn’t prepared to experience eyeball moisture in the first 50 pages. But it’s gorgeous of course.
May 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I went into this knowing what it was about but wasn’t prepared to experience eyeball moisture in the first 50 pages. But it’s gorgeous of course.
Thomas Kincade took this to heart far too much.
May 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Thomas Kincade took this to heart far too much.