Vin Diesel Told Me To
Vine Diesel told me to go back to the movies. I’m probably going to listen.
Roses from the Universe
Cover image by Hope “Silver” Bobb There’s this play I’ve helped teach for a couple of years now—Chekov’s The Seagull. It’s… well, it’s Chekov, so it’s a bit weird and the characters behave simultaneously too realistically and too dramatically to be totally comfortable, but for purposes of this blog post all you really need to […]
Something New Every Day
Learn something new, something unexpected, something like how to host a podcast for early career academics.
The Problem with WordPress
Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace formatted chaos. What follows is an unapologetic rant about WordPress site formatting, content presentation, and how it affects what is likely a tiny percentage of their overall user base. Namely, me.
Zombie Girl
Zombies weren’t always an epidemic; did you know that?
Cue Music Montage
Sometime in high school, shortly after getting my first laptop, I learned how to pirate movies online. Now, at almost 28, I’m looking back at over a decade of my favorite little felony and the accidental film buff I’ve become along the way.
Dwelling in Dark Places
I read a lot of books about dead things. It’s an occupational hazard for a Frankenstein scholar with a penchant for medical history. Doubly so for one who teaches a course on plague and apocalypse fiction. Because of this both my real and virtual bookshelves are stacked with titles like Stiff: The Curious Lives of […]
The Acknowledgements
On Friday the 4th of December I sent a PhD thesis off into the void. Four years of work, and many sleepless nights in recent weeks, uploaded through a deceptively simple internet portal for other people to judge. I like to think it’s worth their time. Worth my time too, for that matter, but that […]
The First Mistake
I remember the first mistake I ever found in a novel.
Look at the whole board
The Bartlett Administration, cir. 1999-2000 In the early days of the pandemic, I started re-watching Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing (1999-2006), a much beloved drama chronicling the lives and intrigues big and small of President Jeb Bartlet’s eight years in office. It’s dated, there’s no doubt. The coats are boxy, the metaphors are heavy-handed, and […]
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