Let's all praise Matt Geiler, who put on a pumpkin mask and did a silly dance in 2006 to fill some dead air time, and thus brought decades of joy to millions of people.

a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery

ALT: a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery

Book Published! The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies Really hoping this one will change the conversation in music industry studies. Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies

This book brings together scholars and professionals from around the globe to re-imagine a less exploitative, more socially just music industry.

Join us on the race to the moon, experience the stress of testing new flight technologies and knowing that not everyone is going to make it out alive (there's also an utterly dumb flag controversy, because this was released in 2018). Bang, zoom, straight to the moon! Next Sunday! #FirstMan#HATM

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This week Historians At The Movies goes to the moon! Join us on Netflix this Sunday October 6 at 8pm eastern to live tweet FIRST MAN. And look for the #HATM podcast with First Man’s author Jim Hansen this Wednesday. Keep us moving forward by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

Easy. They're all on PST (Plot Standard Time) #HATM

I admire the sound mixing: you hear the rowers grunts, the rows creak, the water splash, and the coxswain's yells. #hatm

And with this humiliating defeat, that Hitler fellow would never bother the world again. #BoysInTheBoat#HATM

Roughly concurrently with this (1936), Indiana Jones is mucking around the Middle East in search of the Lost Ark of the Covenant (including being a boy on a U-Boat!) - despite claims that he uncovered it, any sign of it has since disappeared into the annals of history. #BoysInTheBoat#HATM

Hey, did you know that 1936 was the origin of gender testing in the Olympics? That’s right, it all started with Nazis! #HATMus.macmillan.com/books/978037...

The Other Olympians

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature"Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stor...

Here's a good article on the subject: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/scor...#BoysInTheBoat#HATM

$300 in 1936 is close to $7,000 today (give or take), so this is a pretty big check, all things considered. #BoysInTheBoat#HATM