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This years’ vintage tattoo Newport Folk poster is one of my favorites in recent memory. Got it up with the collection on the wall this afternoon! Next year will require a more thorough overhaul I think…

Planning to move twins to college is wild, y’all. Two of everything: two dorm fridges, two mattress toppers, etc. etc. At least we’re only going to one campus, I suppose—could be more complicated still

I’m finally looking at the qualifying paper @bibliowingate.bsky.social sent me in response to this request & we need to get some version of this published ASAP—Appendix B alone is an alphabetical list of scholarly models for everything from 17th century books to webcomics to scientific communication

American healthcare is having to spend an hour of my life trying to get a receipt to prove to my health savings account company that the $18 I spent at an urgent care was a valid medical expense what non-valid expense I could have incurred at an urgent care I cannot say but ya know

<Bruce Springsteen voice> Got a new job down at the data mine twenty an hour on the cooling line saving for a house maybe fifteen years but the bosses bought up every house near here

There is nothing funnier in my algorithms these days than companies advertising “cool” pill organizers to my fellow GenXers/Millennials

I can’t quite wrap my head around the @ischoolui.bsky.social welcoming *13 new faculty* members this academic year, with PhDs in everything from computer science to history to education to anthropology—excited to have so many new colleagues!

The level of respect my teens hold for *me* increased about 20 fold when I told them I was buddies with @friede.bsky.social who they’d seen on @dimension20.dropout.tv Amazing work!

Random fb market score today: a late 19th-century scrapbook, mostly blank but with an 1894 almanac & a *Neighborhood Gossip & Dream Book* tucked inside—going straight to the @skeuomorphpress.org teaching collection for whenever we talk about commonplace & scrapbooks

I don’t know what level of Midwestern “signing up for Culver’s custard flavor-of-the-day emails” constitutes, but that’s where I am currently

I know this is a new low, but 32% approval of the current shitshow is a *wild* stat Like, 1/3 of Americans looking around at *all this* & saying “yeah, this is fine”

We have New England friends (also academics) we meet up with every year for Newport & I do still envy their summer. They don’t start back until after Labor Day, so the festival marks a kind of midpoint for them, while it’s summer’s end for us—things really start picking up moments after we get home

Proud to have 3 exhibits published from our Mellon-sponsored “Virality of Racial Terror” project, which three VRT grad student researchers are presenting about at #dh2026 this week Links to all three at www.vrt.viraltexts.org

Got an email today from @caitcoker.bsky.social & realized I’ve been waiting my whole career (my whole life?) for someone to say we need a crucible & some ingots for a research/teaching project a CRUCIBLE & INGOTS y’all. I feel like a goddamn artificer

Love how in the US an airline can just be like “yeah your flight isn’t happening. We can probably fly you there in two days, maybe…?” & now you’re just stuck in some random city scrambling to find (& pay for) a hotel, rearrange life back home, &c. &c.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains I had to do 2

I was thinking we live in an increasingly hellish capitalist dystopia, but then I saw an small plane (not visible) pulling a banner that said “SOCIALISM SUCKS!” & it really made me rethink things

Heading into my happiest place. No work chat for awhile.

Back yet again at the baseball field with @eviedc.bsky.social, this time for the Newport Folk All-Stars Game. Time to watch folk musicians try to play softball! Such a joy

This week’s internet discourse has me wondering: what instrument would Jimothy play? & what heroic artist will make that illustration happen?