How dare you. How dare you ask me, a professional literary critic with a pee-haitch-dee, if I have read that literary classic that everyone is supposed to have read—a text that, if I haven’t read it, it would be a huge source of embarrassment. How dare you.
(No I haven’t).
Mommy played peak-a-boo. She was there, but where’d she go. Oh there she is—wait she’s gone again
London friends please join us at SOAS next week for event on Resisting Erasure hosted by the wonderful Center for Palestine Studies.
A conversation on Palestine and imperialism and the structures shaping this moment.
17 March, 6:30pm
Register:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"
"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."
Thinking about the time I was working a corporate job during International Women’s Day, and a guy in the office went around shaking every woman’s hand, saying “happy lady’s day.”
Happy International Women’s Day!
IWD is a socialist holiday, honoring working-class women from around the world who have joined together to fight for a more just and equal future.
“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
Don’t worry y’all, any time the US has taken out the leadership of a nation, it always works out.
Just look at Haiti, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chile, Guatemala, Vietnam…
Hate being a citizen of the country of villains
Death Drive 2026
And then I look at the posts at unis where I DO qualify (english depts in German-speaking countries): “lol, I specialize in Palestine. No chance.”
And yet I still apply to them. Just to feel something (rejection)
Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
I look at ads for academic positions and remember where I did my PhD and go “lol, no chance.”
damn, but that would mean that all the smirking jagoffs who spent the entire election cycle telling us voters wouldn’t care about the administration’s reprehensible support of an obvious genocide were….. wrong??
A friend has alerted me that the Dürnstein castle where King Richard the Lionheart was arrested is becoming a “cryo body wellness center”
Am I entitled to a tiny (tiny) bit of patriotism when we beat those hosers at their own sport? As a treat?
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
Finding some great insights at the office of my partner’s physiotherapist
Gabriel Rockhill as Harold Hill.
Okay it’s genuinely funny that a guy dressed like Harold Hill from The Music Man is peddling his wares about the pipers of the global theory industry
Impact: everyone who watched Super Bowl 60. 💅
“Great Birnam Wood to high Levi’s Stadium / Shall come against him”
From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
That’s how some of you sound
