are you a monogamous bottom no I’m a

last year I bought an SFMOMA membership while having a panic attack and it’s been great because I can just show up, look at my favorite twombly, and then leave

I avoided real work last winter by writing way too much about the fact that two different Dans, including our own Dan Sinykin, published books on publishing, and also the material conditions of academic labor—the result is out today in Qui Parle! read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/arti…

–Jonathan Richman, 1992

wow very cool to have my first running-through-the-airport-to-the-gate experience be at a totally packed JFK

man, not david lynch. could see it coming, but still. I just watched inland empire for the first time four days ago.

the heating in my apartment is currently locked in the on position call placed; let’s see how long it takes for management to send someone two hours and counting

P.S. Eliot has one of the great wiki band photo/caption combinations

tapir-whorf hypothesis is this anything

tired: this meeting could’ve been an email wired: this thinkpiece about literary white men could’ve been something you say to your friend at the bar four beers in you both forget about immediately

Very excited to finally share: Art / Culture / Politics, UC Berkeley's public-facing writing workshop, will host the fabulous A.V. Marraccini for "Provisionalities for Criticism in an Age of Uncertainty" on April 9 at 2pm PST. Folks, it's going to be excellent. Do not miss out.

sorry Ocean but I think that’s probably late-career Ishiguro territory

I've had this happen in other venues, but I promise I've already told Ryan Lackey and the grad student public writing workshop at Berkeley that I absolutely WILL be talking about the necessity of talking about Gaza, among other duties of the critic as public intellectual. Join us:

how *can* good criticism engage with historical and material conditions? what does sharp and nimble thinking look like? how much fun can an event about criticism’s futures be? come tomorrow at 2pm PST and find out!!!

This essay from Dan Sinykin is a jewel of critical public writing, totally correct about elegance and style in close reading, and its comparison of close reading to athletic performance means I’m going to teach it in a sportswriting class this summer defector.com/close-reading-…

More like Mam-DAMN-i amiright

the Andrew Sullivan NYT piece on the “gay rights movement” supposedly “losing its way” by “radicalizing” is some of the dumbest published writing I have ever seen

Design for Living ran so Challengers could double fault