Same! They are losing so many people to the Green Party (including me) because they can't stop trying to be Tory Lite. I don't know why they think their core voters are going to cosign a continuation of these gross and cruel policies.
Rare trip to the cinema last weekend. Resisted the urge to yell, 'Yes, Clem Fandango, my heights are wuthered!'
Charmed that he kept his interest in avant garde fashion, though.
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social I was doing my usual QA listen of our new episode this morning and felt my blood pressure rising with every fart joke.
✨🌈💖🦄Fuck you forever🦄💖🌈✨
Book cover for Much Ado, showing a lil naked Cupid sitting weirdly astride a big red heart while fishing. Why not!
Book cover for Much Ado showing a placid looking woman as 14 disembodied hands point angry fingers at her. I guess that's Hero?
Old picture of Much Ado showing a blue drawing of a house and gardens with various C17th people wandering around. It's cool.
Boring-ass cover fro Much Ado, showing a masquerade mask, which makes sense, on top of a bunch of sheet music, which does not.
Happy Valentine's Day!
If you like Beatrice and Benedick's schtick in 'Much Ado', you'll love Abby and Daniel's combative barbs.
We fight about D's bad attitude, endless fart jokes, & odd directorial decisions. Let's eat HIS heart in the marketplace! Yum yum yum!
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TOMORROW, tomorrow, and tomorrow: our coverage of 'Much Ado About Nothing' comes out - including yet more dramaturgical insights.
We've been receiving some wonderful book proposals of late for @incsa.bsky.social's book series with Clemson University Press. But you can never have too much of a good thing. If you have a monograph or edited collection, consider sending it to us!
Details 👇
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Suspect a HUGE issue with "A.i." summary tools is that they're full of mistakes that you'd only know if you already know the material. So people THINK it's helping when it's actually making them more ignorant.
TOMORROW: If you thought 2026 already couldn't get any worse, our new series starts with Gaston Leroux's thoroughly stupid 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1910) - a rare example of a novel that's *more* incoherent and histrionic than its musical adaptation.
There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
My carbohydrate-loving 1yo just laid his head adoringly on a plate of hot buttered toast, like it was the bosom of his most cherished companion.
Phantom book cover showing a beruffled man in a mask and a dashing hat, gesturing ambiguously.
Phantom book cover showing a cowering woman in a bathrobe and with truly fucked up hair, on her knees at the feet of a man in a tux. His head is cut off in the image, but his stance says: smug.
Phantom book cover, showing a negative-space illustration of a half-mask and a rose.
Phantom book cover showing a man in a top hat, opera cloak, and tux, rowing a woman in a bathrobe in a lil boat (technically I think he's punting, but that doesn't quite sound right).
You guessed right! Season 7 (on camp classics and fan favourites) starts with Gaston Leroux's 1910 melodrama, 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
And if you think the stage show is OTT, has an insufferable Raoul, and nonsensical plot points...then, babygirl, you better gird your loins for the original text.
Still from Beavis and Butthead, where two gormless looking teenage dweebs sit on a couch and gurn at each other, hornily.
The crone-witch from the 1930s animated Snow White, leaning in through the open half-door.
A still from Shrek, showing big ole green lumpy Shrek holding Princess Fiona's dainty lil hand as the sun sets. Aww!
A still from Batman Returns, showing Danny DeVito hamming it up as the grotesque Penguin. My good dude could use some colour corrector for this dark under-eye circles!
Happy New Year, Shelfers! Time to guess the clue to our next episode.
In S6, we saw an awful lot of attractive characters. The Duchess of Malfi, Emma Bovary, Molly Bloom, everyone in Streetcar and Fanny Hill, etc.
But uggos need love, too! So for our S7 opener, I want to read about a real munter.
Book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin showing an illustration of a Black woman and Black child tending a garden next to the presumably titular cabin.
Book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin showing an illustration of a blonde girl in a white dress reading a book to a Black man in rags, while they both sit in a shack with a hammock, while a white woman looks on approvingly. Also, there is a dog.
Book cover for Uncle Tom's Cabin showing an illustration of a bunch of white men standing around looking at a Black man in rags. One of the white men holds a whip.
Super old-fashioned book cover for Uncle Tom's Cabin, showing a woman of ambiugous race talking to a Black man, while she points at something in the distance. They are standing in front of the presumably titular cabin, and also there is a whip and a pair of shackles hanging from the title letters of the book.
In our final banned book episode, we celebrate (?) Christmas with the inappropriately summery (but sufficiently maudlin) 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852).
Turns out, everything we knew about this book we learned from 'The King and I' and was therefore wildly incorrect!
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We come out all guns blazing for our Christmas episode, and the final instalment of our banned books series, with Harriet Beecher Stowe's Civil War-causing/-winning 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) - what's more, it's crammed with sizzling Quakers...
Out on Wednesday!
I have already been quoted and referenced with hallucinated literature, and you all will be too. It’s a growing mess.
Writing a book chapter on true crime fiction and just waiting to get a concerned email from HR about how many times I've looked up Ed Gein on a work computer.
I just sent in some rather sharply-worded feedback. Might even send in a hard-copy letter to HQ (apparently physical letters get a ton more traction than virtual feedback; I got stamps and time today).
Spending today bombarding Waterstones and Daunt specifically with WE DON’T WANT IT messages
My 1-year-old thinks that the clown with the tearaway face in 'Nightmare Before Christmas' is hilarious, but he's terrified of the measuring cups in the kitchen
Is this the level of class warfare that will finally make the bourgeoisie join forces with the poors? AI deskilling law, academia, architecture, programming, finance, and literally every other human endeavour and replacing it with absolute garbage?
Deskilling happens incredibly fast, and re-learning lost skills is hard!
Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
My students just told me that it's considered embarrassing to have a boyfriend???
Do I have to get divorced????
We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
Credits rolling
Husband: So ... did either of them even graduate?
Husband just looked up from his phone during 'Defying Gravity'.
I knew it would friggin' get him, y'all.
*Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel show up*
Husband: *gasp* is that the bullshit woman from RENT?
Me: You know Idina Menzel, surely
Husband: I know I hate her
