The Melania film is on streaming now. You can just down vote if you’re not interested in watching it.

Is anyone else not getting any sound for the @hbomax.bsky.social coverage of the women’s strade bianche?

Protesting my current problem: the source of the temperature in my house and…you know

A detail of a drawing by Greuze of an old woman holding glasses to her eyes

A detail of David’s oath of the tennis court of an old man holding a hat. The man is naked and has “six pack” an muscles

A picture of a woman by the river seine at night with a the Pont Marie bridge behind her

Greuze and David in Paris. Plus a little moment at the Seine to memorialize M. Colbert’s Paris life.

I’m happy to see Colbert isn’t backing down in his last months. Jesse Welles played this song on the broadcast show youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...

Today’s lecture marked the return of my quarantine friend, Brian Koozey, who was introduced to me by the automatic captioning on Panopto. Remember those days?

The Dallas Opera’s production of Dialogues of the Carmelites was *amazing*. Patricia Racette is a force and I’m glad my opera buddy cried as hard as I did.

M. Le Petit Colbert left this mortal coil today at 18 1/2 years. He was adopted in Ann Arbor, MI, and lived in Paris, Zurich, New York City before settling down in Fort Worth. He helped his human grade, study, write a dissertation, a book, and get tenure.

Official statement by TCU On September 18, TCU successfully hosted a TPUSA event to honor the life of Charlie Kirk, who had previously spoken on TCU's campus to students and the community. Separate from this event, an outside party, not affiliated with TCU, invited an external speaker to appear on our campus on Oct. 7. The student chapter of TPUSA then requested that TCU host the Oct. 7 event for 700 to 1,000 people. The requested space was already booked with another student event. We explored options and notified the group on Sept. 25 that a secure space was not available given the short notice, but we offered to find another date or space for the event. TCU never cancelled this event as it was never booked. TCU

My favorite thing about this kerfuffle is the idea that outside people thought they could get (and deserved) a space for 1,000 people on short notice at TCU (a private campus).

Can we cancel the TCU/UNC game in Ireland next year and spend that money on something else? Asking for all the faculty. #tcu #unc #gofrogs

Stumbled upon the memorial to the WWI horses in Paris today.

Good turn out in Paris today

Opera night!

Has anyone checked in with the Afrikaner refugees now that Trump and Musk hate each other?

Also this is the best mission impossible theme and no I will not be taking question.

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"Mission Impossible": I Don't Understand How Tall Everyone Is Paula Patton is 5'4" (allegedly). Jeremy Renner is allegedly 5'10" but last time I lit his cigarette I had to bend down. (That’s what… she said?) Tom Cruise is tall enough to kick this dude in the c...

Going to officially petition for the question posed in this classic bit of internet writing be change from “how tall” to “how old” because digitally de-aging did some wild things between dead reckoning and final reckoning. www.theawl.com/2011/12/miss...

Had my first colonoscopy yesterday. Woke up from anesthesia telling everyone I was going home to hang out with my cats.

Texas will require public school classrooms to display Ten Commandments under bill nearing passage The House has approved Senate Bill 10 even though a similar Louisiana law was deemed unconstitutional. Supporters say Christianity is core to U.S. history.

If I’m going to be forced to have some part of Christian faith displayed in public schools, I’d go for the beatitudes instead of the 10 commandments. Especially “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.” tinyurl.com/bdz27jwk

It was take all the cats to the vet day and everyone is zonked. Especially the elder statesman who has become non compliant in his old age and gets a dose of gabapentin.

Another semester (my 18th) at TCU done and dusted. It was, as they say, a doozy.

NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes

Looking forward to pivoting from my work on the representation of aging women/menopause in the 18-c (which received money from the NEH) to…making bronze or marble statues for…this thing?

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Has someone done a compilation of Noah Wiley putting his stethoscope around his neck on ER and The Pitt?
If not, you’re welcome for the genius idea.

If you think this is “art” and appropriate for the White House then, well, have I got news for you. (Spoiler: it’s not news, it’s a lesson in propaganda).

Tituss Burgess,Susan Graham,and Christine Baranski -“you’ll never walk alone”for Renée Fleming #titussburgess #susangraham #christinebaranski #reneefleming #kennedycenterhonors #foryou #fyp TikTok video by Torespectgulu01

Sometimes when I think I’m overreacting to something, I remember the time I sent a Liverpool fan the performance of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at the Kennedy Honors (RIP) and explained the plot of Carousel.
(No shade, Liverpudlians. It’s Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s fault)

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj1XmWey/

The NEH summer stipend was amazing for getting my new book project off the ground. Sad to see it’s being cut.

If your grad program includes full tuition and a stipend, please stop treating “tuition” as part of your students’ incomes. It doesn’t pay their rent, food, gas, books, can’t deduct it from their taxes. Yes, they should be grateful that their tuition is covered, but the students live on the stipend.

Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week or face consequences Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have until just before Tuesday to explain what they accomplished over the last week.

What did you accomplish last week? apnews.com/article/elon...

The apartheid stuff is obviously gross (and unsurprising) but on a personal level I’m laughing that my family is both more South African and more American when it comes to immigration and citizenship.

Doge of Venice - Wikipedia

Dear @npr.org

Ok so it’s D.O.G.E or the department of government efficiency. The Doge was the leader of the republic of Venice.

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Looking forward to GMC changing the name of the truck to McKinley.