Paul Kelleher

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

“How can we sleep for grief?”

RIP, Sir Tom

I didn’t!!! Thanks for sharing!

Shouts-out? 🤷🏻 lol

Holiday rewatch of BBC *Pride and Prejudice* w/ Mom.

Since I can’t turn my nerd brain off, I’m thinking the whole time: omg, there are so many *Pamela* plot shout-outs! We gotta talk about this! 🤓🤔

Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

Omg amazing!

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Favorite Xmas Movie??

😂 WRONG Answers Only! 😂

Thanks for this share!

At least 75% of American punditry at this point is packaging the least challenging ideas imaginable as forbidden truths.

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Writing is thinking.

It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

-Joan Didion

Should someone check on Tulsi?

#Assad #TulsiGabbard

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

💯

The old schtick, clearly, gets us nowhere. I’m glad Hunter got pardoned.

Wow, the Bad Place is making it SO hard to leave 😂🤢

So…

Trump 2.0 = Pandemic 2.0?

History has a grim sense of humor 🐦‍⬛😷

And MAGA excludes many, many people. Have you noticed how almost entirely white his cabinet picks and other nominations are?

If you think that MAGA is not grounded in 24/7 grievance, then…facts and the evidence of our ears and eyes no longer matter 🤷‍♂️

😂 you’re hilarious

The (as always premature) hot take that is taking hold is that liberals are abandoning MSNBC and CNN. However, common sense tells us that folks are just really TIRED and are taking a mental break. Only a 24-hour news cycle needs to immediately “diagnose” ratings, day by day. Folks will tune back in

Unquestionably, MAGA is itself WHITE (and white adjacent) male identity politics on steroids. We in the “faculty lounge” have been saying for years that white bros are no less an identity group than so-called minority identities. History bears this out 💯

Per SCOTUS, the President has, more or less, absolute immunity. So…🤔…maybe do some stuff, Uncle Joe?