Brad Congdon
@brcongdon.bsky.social
Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
He/him
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
He/him
So I’m watching MANIAC COP 3 and it’s kind of amazing how good the film looks, considering it’s a quickie B film that had extensive production problems and “Alan Smithee” as a director.
Amazing what location shooting and professional lighting can do.
Amazing what location shooting and professional lighting can do.
February 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
So I’m watching MANIAC COP 3 and it’s kind of amazing how good the film looks, considering it’s a quickie B film that had extensive production problems and “Alan Smithee” as a director.
Amazing what location shooting and professional lighting can do.
Amazing what location shooting and professional lighting can do.
The great film trilogies: The Human Condition, Three Colours, Before …, and Maniac Cop.
February 17, 2026 at 2:10 AM
The great film trilogies: The Human Condition, Three Colours, Before …, and Maniac Cop.
Very cool of me to have forgotten the title of my own book.
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Very cool of me to have forgotten the title of my own book.
I have broken a long-held rule and initiated an argument with a stranger on fb.
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I have broken a long-held rule and initiated an argument with a stranger on fb.
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I do not understand the world anymore. And that’s ok I think.
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I do not understand the world anymore. And that’s ok I think.
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I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
February 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
I do not understand the world anymore. And that’s ok I think.
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I do not understand the world anymore. And that’s ok I think.
Why is it so hard to find reporting on this? When I google it, all I get is TERFs and bigots bemoaning it.
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Why is it so hard to find reporting on this? When I google it, all I get is TERFs and bigots bemoaning it.
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I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Shut up Brad! Your song stunk, I hate your suit and I could hurt you! #filmsky
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
February 12, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Shut up Brad! Your song stunk, I hate your suit and I could hurt you! #filmsky
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
Shut up Brad! Your song stunk, I hate your suit and I could hurt you! #filmsky
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
February 12, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Shut up Brad! Your song stunk, I hate your suit and I could hurt you! #filmsky
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
#NowWatching LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
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Thinking about Black History Month... I don't think a proper history of BIPOC involvement in organized science fiction fandom has been written yet; it may never be written. We know Black fans existed, but so did prejudice which hindered their involvement in fandom.
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Jim Crow, Science Fiction, and WorldCon
No black fans had become active to any extent by 1957, but females without brothers or husbands in fandom became more numerous. The one who attracted the most notice was Lee Hoffman, whom everyone …
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February 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Thinking about Black History Month... I don't think a proper history of BIPOC involvement in organized science fiction fandom has been written yet; it may never be written. We know Black fans existed, but so did prejudice which hindered their involvement in fandom.
deepcuts.blog/2021/06/19/j...
deepcuts.blog/2021/06/19/j...
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For every 5 REPOSTS or 10 LIKES this gets, I'll tell you 1 cool fact about SAMURAI that you may not know.
February 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
For every 5 REPOSTS or 10 LIKES this gets, I'll tell you 1 cool fact about SAMURAI that you may not know.
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In light of recent residential school denialist events in BC, I was invited to give this talk for my alma mater, Simon Fraser University, outlining the substance and strategy of denialism and attacks on truth and reconciliation. The event was recorded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfE...
Truth Before Reconciliation: How to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism
YouTube video by SFU Archaeology
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
In light of recent residential school denialist events in BC, I was invited to give this talk for my alma mater, Simon Fraser University, outlining the substance and strategy of denialism and attacks on truth and reconciliation. The event was recorded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfE...
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"Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
February 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
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People rightly talk about the sweaters in Shetland, but overlook all the skinny jeans.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
People rightly talk about the sweaters in Shetland, but overlook all the skinny jeans.
People rightly talk about the sweaters in Shetland, but overlook all the skinny jeans.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
People rightly talk about the sweaters in Shetland, but overlook all the skinny jeans.
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You know what would make a banging dance song? The story of a late 19th/early 20th century Russian faith healer.
February 7, 2026 at 4:23 AM
You know what would make a banging dance song? The story of a late 19th/early 20th century Russian faith healer.
You know what would make a banging dance song? The story of a late 19th/early 20th century Russian faith healer.
February 7, 2026 at 4:23 AM
You know what would make a banging dance song? The story of a late 19th/early 20th century Russian faith healer.
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I gotta admit, one sign of aging I was not expecting is that my eyebrows appear to be fading away.
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
I gotta admit, one sign of aging I was not expecting is that my eyebrows appear to be fading away.