Matthew Harrison
@matthewharrison.bsky.social
pizza advocate; english professor
@kathylubey.bsky.social (Annual Kathy Lubey appreciation post, as I once again think about how smart her book is!)
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@kathylubey.bsky.social (Annual Kathy Lubey appreciation post, as I once again think about how smart her book is!)
just heard a weird crash sound come from the elevator. all of you okay?
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
just heard a weird crash sound come from the elevator. all of you okay?
"so the list of entrées includes an entire head of cauliflower, which tastes like an entire head of cauliflower. "
It feels inelegant to say you should read my latest review because it’s very negative. You should read my latest review because it’s insane. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"so the list of entrées includes an entire head of cauliflower, which tastes like an entire head of cauliflower. "
let me just say, if i were the nymphs of Mulla, responsible for tending the silver scaly trouts and greedy pike, /i/ would not send out an email insulting said trouts and said pike, instead focusing on keeping the rushy lake and bynding up the locks the which hang scattered light, WHICH IS MY JOB
[redacted because i used to like my job] wtf
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
let me just say, if i were the nymphs of Mulla, responsible for tending the silver scaly trouts and greedy pike, /i/ would not send out an email insulting said trouts and said pike, instead focusing on keeping the rushy lake and bynding up the locks the which hang scattered light, WHICH IS MY JOB
[redacted because i used to like my job] wtf
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
[redacted because i used to like my job] wtf
anybody up for getting wasted and stepping in the same river twice?
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
anybody up for getting wasted and stepping in the same river twice?
at least he was somewhat helpful for sherlock
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
at least he was somewhat helpful for sherlock
thinking about the cocktail party where i became tipsily obsessed with lil wayne's line "real G's move in silence like lasagna" except i got the line wrong and so i just kept talking to my thesis advisor's partner about the silent g in spaghetti.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
thinking about the cocktail party where i became tipsily obsessed with lil wayne's line "real G's move in silence like lasagna" except i got the line wrong and so i just kept talking to my thesis advisor's partner about the silent g in spaghetti.
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"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
The Death of the Humanities
Why do you say I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand of an author I know like a lover though they died years before I was born?
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Lorenzo de Medici’s pet giraffe used to wander 1480s Florence sticking its head in second story windows to be fed by excited neighbors (or eating their ribeye is herbs) and this is a great visual to help imagine it.
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935)
📷 google images
📷 google images
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lorenzo de Medici’s pet giraffe used to wander 1480s Florence sticking its head in second story windows to be fed by excited neighbors (or eating their ribeye is herbs) and this is a great visual to help imagine it.
my favorite replies to this TAG THE ARTIST that the replier believes will despise them.
that gesture alone convinces me.
that gesture alone convinces me.
I asked this before over at The Old Place and the answers delighted me. So again:
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
my favorite replies to this TAG THE ARTIST that the replier believes will despise them.
that gesture alone convinces me.
that gesture alone convinces me.
bad news for stone phallus fans
So the notion of Geoffrey Webb roaming the country in the late 1940s checking every stone altar and finding stone phalluses in 90% of them is laughable; such an undertaking would have been logistically, legally and financially impossible, even if such stone altars had existed
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
bad news for stone phallus fans
totally nerdsniped this morning by a student visit and thinking about how Rabindranath Tagore read Walt Whitman
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
totally nerdsniped this morning by a student visit and thinking about how Rabindranath Tagore read Walt Whitman
new bsky settings default to censoring stuff. might be worth looking through yours to see whether you really want them to hide all things they designate as "rude"
you'll definitely wanna go and make sure because turns out they had engaged the nanny locks for everything on mine
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
new bsky settings default to censoring stuff. might be worth looking through yours to see whether you really want them to hide all things they designate as "rude"
Excitedly looking up the result of school board races.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Excitedly looking up the result of school board races.
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As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate
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this is so much better than the last time we were all new yorkers
June 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
this is so much better than the last time we were all new yorkers
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Once more, for old times’ sake
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Once more, for old times’ sake
sorry, i went to put my kid to bed. any interesting news in the last, say 44 minutes?
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
sorry, i went to put my kid to bed. any interesting news in the last, say 44 minutes?
man it would suck to have a bird eat your liver every day for all of eternity
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
man it would suck to have a bird eat your liver every day for all of eternity
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So I write a weekly newsletter for our indivisible chapter, and each week I profile a left journalist operation. If you’re struggling to build an audience for your thing and think you can speak to a lefty ex-hippie inner-ring Madison suburb that’s very into good apples, get in touch.
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So I write a weekly newsletter for our indivisible chapter, and each week I profile a left journalist operation. If you’re struggling to build an audience for your thing and think you can speak to a lefty ex-hippie inner-ring Madison suburb that’s very into good apples, get in touch.
cruel pedagogy strategy: had my students draw the bower of bliss on the board, working through the allegory.
then, at the key moment, erased it.
then, at the key moment, erased it.
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
cruel pedagogy strategy: had my students draw the bower of bliss on the board, working through the allegory.
then, at the key moment, erased it.
then, at the key moment, erased it.
update: no call yet, but I’m wearing my new shirt (eBay flannel, 2023) for the photographers
sorry if im a little distracted: the sexiest man alive is being announced today and i think i have a pretty good shot
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
update: no call yet, but I’m wearing my new shirt (eBay flannel, 2023) for the photographers
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Colleagues in staff/educational development - how do you deal with aggression or bullying from workshop attendees? I don't mean people disagreeing or not really participating, but open hostility? I'm not new to it, but wondered if anyone's been finding success here
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Colleagues in staff/educational development - how do you deal with aggression or bullying from workshop attendees? I don't mean people disagreeing or not really participating, but open hostility? I'm not new to it, but wondered if anyone's been finding success here
sorry if im a little distracted: the sexiest man alive is being announced today and i think i have a pretty good shot
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
sorry if im a little distracted: the sexiest man alive is being announced today and i think i have a pretty good shot