Christopher Yates
@yates.bsky.social
corrupt Renaissance courtier and English PhD; molochofficial on some other unnameable site
put my spring syllabus together : )
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
put my spring syllabus together : )
you'll never convince me that Derrida wasn't onto something when the richest man in the world just completed the phallocentrism-phonocentrism-logocentrism trifecta in a tweet about Homer
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
you'll never convince me that Derrida wasn't onto something when the richest man in the world just completed the phallocentrism-phonocentrism-logocentrism trifecta in a tweet about Homer
two weeks or so ago I had the pleasure of conveying notable cowboy-wizard-sci-fi-author Samuel Delany to his induction to the American academy of arts and sciences
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
two weeks or so ago I had the pleasure of conveying notable cowboy-wizard-sci-fi-author Samuel Delany to his induction to the American academy of arts and sciences
Future anthropologists will note that, in the early decades of the 21st century, elite families demonstrated their wealth and prestige through the scale, variety, and tastefulness of their decorative gourd arrangements
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Future anthropologists will note that, in the early decades of the 21st century, elite families demonstrated their wealth and prestige through the scale, variety, and tastefulness of their decorative gourd arrangements
kind of obsessed with Oberon's slutty tunic and butterfly hair-clips here
October 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kind of obsessed with Oberon's slutty tunic and butterfly hair-clips here
My “it’s safe to eat out in Florida” pamphlet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my pamphlet
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My “it’s safe to eat out in Florida” pamphlet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my pamphlet
Here in Rhode Island we’re just catching up to the summer 1999 news cycle
September 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Here in Rhode Island we’re just catching up to the summer 1999 news cycle
I love this 19th century depiction of Hotspur and the unnamed fop from Henry IV Part I for many reasons but chiefly because this is how I picture every interaction I have with my father
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I love this 19th century depiction of Hotspur and the unnamed fop from Henry IV Part I for many reasons but chiefly because this is how I picture every interaction I have with my father
Very funny moment in this Agatha Christie novel (“The Moving Finger”); she’s a great plot-writer but also deeply incurious about the world around her and so her novels just pass on huge globs of raw ideology, undigested (this makes her interesting to read imo)
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Very funny moment in this Agatha Christie novel (“The Moving Finger”); she’s a great plot-writer but also deeply incurious about the world around her and so her novels just pass on huge globs of raw ideology, undigested (this makes her interesting to read imo)
you have to sort of feel for Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, the perfectly accomplished late 15th century Italian painter whose Crucifixion has been mogged by Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (on the opposite wall) for 5 centuries
September 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
you have to sort of feel for Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, the perfectly accomplished late 15th century Italian painter whose Crucifixion has been mogged by Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (on the opposite wall) for 5 centuries
Look at this utterly demented urinal
July 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Look at this utterly demented urinal
What are they pumping into the water at Bennington?
June 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What are they pumping into the water at Bennington?
I don't remember Jesus specifying that the robbed traveler and the good samaritan were twinks but I'll take it
May 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I don't remember Jesus specifying that the robbed traveler and the good samaritan were twinks but I'll take it
me granting my students' last-minute extension requests
April 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
me granting my students' last-minute extension requests
using some advanced pedagogical techniques here (forcing my students to watch Kate Bush)
April 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
using some advanced pedagogical techniques here (forcing my students to watch Kate Bush)
Portrait of a horse’s massive ass with a cameo by George Washington
April 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Portrait of a horse’s massive ass with a cameo by George Washington
I really like this painting of a cat that has the soul of a gilded age robber baron
March 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I really like this painting of a cat that has the soul of a gilded age robber baron
I’m surprised to have never heard of this before — what a concept!
March 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m surprised to have never heard of this before — what a concept!
honestly I just love it when a wikipedia article breaks away from the house-style and goes rogue; this really does read like Tasso composed it himself via seance
February 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
honestly I just love it when a wikipedia article breaks away from the house-style and goes rogue; this really does read like Tasso composed it himself via seance
fascinated by the Wikipedia page on 16th century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, which appears to have been written by the poet himself while lying on his deathbed and reflecting ruefully on his accomplishments and regrets
February 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
fascinated by the Wikipedia page on 16th century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, which appears to have been written by the poet himself while lying on his deathbed and reflecting ruefully on his accomplishments and regrets
Here’s me as the fence from Blue Velvet for Halloween lol (I was the only person who thought it was funny but I thought it was really really funny.)
January 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Here’s me as the fence from Blue Velvet for Halloween lol (I was the only person who thought it was funny but I thought it was really really funny.)
Okay, Concord is really just showing off with this “local authors” shelf
January 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Okay, Concord is really just showing off with this “local authors” shelf
Have a modernist Christmas! (from Picasso and Theo van Doesburg, respectively)
December 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Have a modernist Christmas! (from Picasso and Theo van Doesburg, respectively)
“The Odyssey starring Tom Holland”
“As Telemachus, right? Right??”
“As Telemachus, right? Right??”
December 24, 2024 at 8:51 PM
“The Odyssey starring Tom Holland”
“As Telemachus, right? Right??”
“As Telemachus, right? Right??”