In case a photo of Derrida with a cat makes your Saturday better...

Getting a jump on the Dexter Gordon centennial on Monday: The opening track from my favorite Dexter LP, Our Man in Paris (1963). In a one artist one-solo challenge, this "Scrapple From the Apple" is one of the two tracks I'd be choosing between for Dexter. youtube.com/watch?v=TYGKqT…

Does anyone have access to this article yet: doi.org/10.5325/jeasme…

Good start for Ferrari in Bahrain …

Listening to Cecil Taylor’s Nefertiti to celebrate his birthday while watching the end of the NASCAR race at COTA. Nothing more American than this! #Murica #JazzCAR

🧵King Frederick Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard would have turned 85 today. Here's a countdown of 20 favorite solos I've toyed with for a few years, tweaked again for 2023. His best work was mostly in the 1960s (no arguments, please), but the first 7 slots represent the '70s/'80s.

While we're on the topic of conferences - what if we took a new approach completely? When COVID struck, that's exactly what @CHATArch set out to do... 🧵1/

I’m beyond grateful to have my poems included in the terrific new issue of the NDQ. Thank you Bill Caraher 🌻 Elated to be a part of this legacy! The latest issue of NDQ is available NOW, check it out: lnkd.in/dwXe2YMW

NDQ introduced its journal on Project MUSE in May 2023. I am dancing off the walls to share with you that my poems have been included in NDQ’s vision to make NDQ available at more libraries around the world. lnkd.in/d9V8GMcx #Poetry #ProjectMuse

Can anyone date Roman water pipes? OF COURSE. LOVE IS LOVE.

Because everyone needs 751 pages of manifesto manifestation, here is the PDF edited by Mary Ann Caws. tinyurl.com/yf8jnzkz

👋 MHA members and followers! Hope you're having a great summer! We periodically retweet great scholarship on the #Midwest, but we don't have eyes everywhere - we'd love to hear from YOU: What articles/books/exhibits on #MidwestHistory are you enjoying this summer? Tweet @ us!

New issue of Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 77, No. 3 (2023) brill.com/view/journals/… Religious & Biblical @jeffreymhubbard

Two great titles releasing today! #PubDay -Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California by Todd Cronan -Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark by John Arena #NewReleases #NewBooks

Why, yes, I’ve been awake since 3:30 am excited for my one day in the field this year. #AllSummerInADay It’s been 20 years since I first set foot on Cyprus and at the site of Pyla-Koutsopetria. hcommons.org/deposits/item/… #PKAP2023

INCREDIBLE book-related NEWS: The street I grew up on (the nondescript 37th Ave NE in Lake Forest Park, WA) is being renamed for the sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler. Here’s how it happened: [🧵] kuow.org/stories/lake-f…

I got to honor one of my writing heroes (Octavia Butler) and meet one of my writing heroes (Charles Mudede) on the same day. EUPHORIC.

I haven't even heard of most of these!! What a list!