this is still darn cool.

I always think of Fall term as exciting, full of energy, not burned-out-yet, but in reality the first 3 weeks of the term are always so bananas and full of deadlines that all the adrenaline erases the memory of how hard they actually are.

darling ghosts ftw. All the dead words still count.

You did it! We did it! We survived! For me, it all goes back to your mohawk hairdo and the leopard print dress at MLA forever ago. I hope you are still celebrating.

follow-up question: are these tweets over here? Or blues? clouds? airplanes? skywriting?

Hello and thanks! Great to hear from you :)

My brain immediately goes to Walter Benjamin's flaneur and the Arcades Project ... you'd have to be willing to be expansive in what a text is. But you could circle back to Woolf and Street Haunting, I think!

In our dept retreat yesterday we were discussing ways to make clear what makes English Studies urgent and necessary. You nailed it. Congrats on your Distinguished Professorship!

Awww, thank you :)

and thanks so much @titachico.bsky.social :)