Matthew Harrison

Lobster-Tail Burgonet
17th century
Polish

(Met Museum)

Once again trying to explain to my professional organization that they would be better off charging people NOT to attend the annual business luncheon.

i was going to put a piece of krill on a string and dangle it in front of the whale's nose

whale

elephant was my first thought, too. as long as it doesn't want to be in the bookshop.

large pork interests

just learned that my piece on teaching Shakespeare at WTAMU is out in Borrowers and Lenders: on sounding country, Shakespeare voice, and the shame of trying.

borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...

immediately clicked the link to see if i was eligible!

this is exactly how i approach academic conferences.

don't make me get the gelding the devil woodcuts back out

My French phrase of the day, which I encountered in a post about our times:

Cette époque de merde = this shitty era

Seems apt.

my fault: i'm teaching taming of the shrew, and it's ruining everything.

i dont want to brag but i just got an invitation on linkedin

also down with cancelling Events until the viruses are not like this! either way!

One of the things I’m kind of interested in is a type of institutional burn that higher ed people, especially faculty, experience. They are harmed in such a way that they never fully recover. Yet they can’t or feel they can’t leave. So they are just kind of generally mad at everything all the time.

i was teaching taming of the shrew, and so looking for shrew-taming ballads.

this came up, and activated my wtf-mode

this made me look back to the first one i sent out and notice the blank text bubble. looks to me like the woodcut was made so that you could change what the devil had to say about this situation.

THE DEVIL SPEAKS!

in this version, we learn how the devil feels about it.

big news for devil-gelding fans: i found a later copy of this woodcut with one important difference.

the devil being gelded.

i'm not sure who needs to hear this, but here is an early modern woodcut of the devil being gelded.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

I've various lil letterpress collections (eg historical queer blocks) but gonna go out on a limb & say this may be the "largest collection of dildo-related letterpress plates in the world"? Wanted to print @chebutykin.bsky.social's tweet but w/changes to quotes in purple bubble font, now here we are

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

i just deleted a dumb post without sending it. where is my cookie?

read this as power napping and was VERY interested

wait there's another kind of modernist?

It's true! I remember thinking about the Miltoniness and Shakespeariness of certain parts.

I think it's great!

I will if you will!

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.

Persephone: Thank you.

Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.