Alana Tomato

I took "Alana Tomato" from my time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi: the term is actually boatman slang for the safe, navigable depth of two fathoms

been teaching other students how to do this too but that is an act of basic solidarity; it does not feel as beneficent to me

teaching professors how to pirate books :)

perhaps I have "biography" ? perhaps I have and am in memory.

I don't have "lore" I am a human being

his name is Benson Hedges and he sounds like he smokes 5 packs of them a day

50 awful drawings of my wretched cat

I LOVE the sequence where a pinball transforms into Gene Kelly, who tapdances around an enormous pinball table colliding into obstacles

I really do feel like a kind of prospector, panning for gold in the river system that is intellectual history: sometimes it's good to go and join in at a spot where everybody's making money, but sometimes too you gotta go where nobody else is looking

feel the same way about THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS.. really directly preconfigures so much later philosophical work about how power circulates in society, w/o falling into the trap of thinking about social formation as a kind of closed system. Helpful stuff: people should notice when I crib from it

ART AS EXPERIENCE is a great book because it is so correct, clarifying, comprehensive, and has been useful to me both as artist & critic: this last quality is particularly uncommon. But Dewey is not exactly a pleasure to read, and people assume (wrongly ime) that they know what they'll find in there

It's good to have a few unfashionable intellectual influences: it's useful: I often get away with just kind of summarizing an argument that John Dewey makes about art or democracy or political/social domination and people think I'm really clever because nobody actually reads him anymore.

My old art historian roommate had to read all these old German guys for her degree whereas I have to read all these old French guys: the is the real divide within the humanities

basically some 19C german guys decided that research and teaching should be the same job, even though the actual connection between these things is far from obvious and the skills involved are quite different. I'm good at both, though, so I resent the 21C american guys destroying this kind of job !

Always officiate a wedding!

hello new followers. I promise that I have at least one interest other than ULYSSES, poetry, and psychedelic rock from 1960s Cambodia. But I will never explain myself to anybody and so you will just have to figure out what my deal is on your own.

me officiating a wedding

tomato reveal. this is from when I officiated a wedding

Hey everyone it's me, the wrong L piece in Tetris. Fuck you

You are being sooo normal to me right now

ME: I'm hoping to move.

HER: I'd encourage it.

[chatting with a professor]

HER: Where do you live again?

ME: Oh, I'm down in [location]. It sucks: terrible place. Did you hear about the oil refinery that exploded a few months back?

HER: My partner works in public health, actually! I hear about [location] a lot.

ME:

ME: I see! Makes sense.

Yeah I have a pretty old-fashioned idea of romance: a handsome German philosophy professor buys me a nice copy of the complete works of Shakespeare, and then we open a schoolhouse together

I'm such a menace lol

I liked the paper you read for Ulysses seminar ! I used it to write a cut up poem. A pantoum

typical lonnie text

Okay.

Molly Bloom is the coolest ever: really mean to her husband, who cooks her nice breakfasts; cheats on him all the time; reads in bed all day, every day: that's how I'm trying to be, or how I will try to be if I marry a man.

It does not.