Rob Montgomery
@montyreads.bsky.social
Anxiety. Bourbon. Music. Film. Anglophilia. Travel. Literature. Teaching. Cautious optimism. Ohioan by birth, Californian at heart, Georgian by circumstance.
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Rob Montgomery
@montyreads.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Because I’ve recently gained some teacher followers, allow me to briefly indulge in self-promotion & mention that my wife Amanda and I have published 2 books on place-based writing, aimed at ELA teachers in all grades.
A Place to Write (NCTE, 2021)
Place-Based Writing in Action (Routledge, 2024)
A Place to Write (NCTE, 2021)
Place-Based Writing in Action (Routledge, 2024)
Headed to Denver for #ncte25. Come see us if you want to provide your students with opportunities for authentic writing in places and spaces outside the classroom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Headed to Denver for #ncte25. Come see us if you want to provide your students with opportunities for authentic writing in places and spaces outside the classroom.
Hey, @craigwallwork.bsky.social! Just started The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In. Even though I hated to wait quite so long (I wanted to read a physical copy), I’m so glad I didn’t read “The Many Ghosts of the Deep” before our flight to the UK. New phobia unlocked! (And I’m loving the stories!)
August 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hey, @craigwallwork.bsky.social! Just started The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In. Even though I hated to wait quite so long (I wanted to read a physical copy), I’m so glad I didn’t read “The Many Ghosts of the Deep” before our flight to the UK. New phobia unlocked! (And I’m loving the stories!)
Last November I started watching all Tony Scott’s movies in chronological order of release.
I finished today.
16 movies later, here’s my final ranking . . .
#moviesky
🎬🎥
I finished today.
16 movies later, here’s my final ranking . . .
#moviesky
🎬🎥
July 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Last November I started watching all Tony Scott’s movies in chronological order of release.
I finished today.
16 movies later, here’s my final ranking . . .
#moviesky
🎬🎥
I finished today.
16 movies later, here’s my final ranking . . .
#moviesky
🎬🎥
As befits such a massive book, an equally massive reflection about Michael McDowell’s Blackwater.
(Although its current [lack of] engagement on Instagram reminds me why I shouldn’t spend 90 minutes writing a review.)
#BookSky
💙📖
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
(Although its current [lack of] engagement on Instagram reminds me why I shouldn’t spend 90 minutes writing a review.)
#BookSky
💙📖
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Rob's review of Blackwater
5/5: Approximately two-thirds of the way through Michael McDowell’s multigenerational, decades-long, Alabama-set horror saga Blackwater, I realized two things: Blackwater is a Pixies song. The Bosto...
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July 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As befits such a massive book, an equally massive reflection about Michael McDowell’s Blackwater.
(Although its current [lack of] engagement on Instagram reminds me why I shouldn’t spend 90 minutes writing a review.)
#BookSky
💙📖
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
(Although its current [lack of] engagement on Instagram reminds me why I shouldn’t spend 90 minutes writing a review.)
#BookSky
💙📖
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Less than 200 pages from the end of Michael McDowell’s Blackwater, and I finally figured out what it reminds me of.
It’s a Pixies song.
LoudQUIETLoud.
It’s a Pixies song.
LoudQUIETLoud.
July 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Less than 200 pages from the end of Michael McDowell’s Blackwater, and I finally figured out what it reminds me of.
It’s a Pixies song.
LoudQUIETLoud.
It’s a Pixies song.
LoudQUIETLoud.
Had to say goodbye to Toby yesterday. It was quick, and I was grateful to be there to give him one last cheek scritch at the end. He always tucked himself under my arm each evening as I read. I’m finding it hard to open my book tonight. Sleep well, buddy. You were the best. #catsofbluesky
April 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Had to say goodbye to Toby yesterday. It was quick, and I was grateful to be there to give him one last cheek scritch at the end. He always tucked himself under my arm each evening as I read. I’m finding it hard to open my book tonight. Sleep well, buddy. You were the best. #catsofbluesky
Oh fun. Just discovered our second book was one of those stolen by Meta to train AI. It’s not like we make any money from an academic press, so this is even more infuriating.
March 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Oh fun. Just discovered our second book was one of those stolen by Meta to train AI. It’s not like we make any money from an academic press, so this is even more infuriating.
March 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hey, Democrats.
Wearing pink and holding up cutesy signs in front of a fascist autocrat isn’t just not the flex you think it is, it’s NOT A FLEX AT ALL.
No one has ever said, “Gosh, we really could have avoided the Holocaust if only people had held up some signs in front of Hitler.”
Wearing pink and holding up cutesy signs in front of a fascist autocrat isn’t just not the flex you think it is, it’s NOT A FLEX AT ALL.
No one has ever said, “Gosh, we really could have avoided the Holocaust if only people had held up some signs in front of Hitler.”
March 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Hey, Democrats.
Wearing pink and holding up cutesy signs in front of a fascist autocrat isn’t just not the flex you think it is, it’s NOT A FLEX AT ALL.
No one has ever said, “Gosh, we really could have avoided the Holocaust if only people had held up some signs in front of Hitler.”
Wearing pink and holding up cutesy signs in front of a fascist autocrat isn’t just not the flex you think it is, it’s NOT A FLEX AT ALL.
No one has ever said, “Gosh, we really could have avoided the Holocaust if only people had held up some signs in front of Hitler.”
I’d sooner plunge my face into a mound of fire ants than watch this display of state-sponsored fascism. Props to those of you with stronger stomachs than I.
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’d sooner plunge my face into a mound of fire ants than watch this display of state-sponsored fascism. Props to those of you with stronger stomachs than I.
Republicans: Remove references to DEI from everything!
Also Republicans: WHY DID THE MEAN MAN TOM HANKS SAY WE’RE RACIST?!
Also Republicans: WHY DID THE MEAN MAN TOM HANKS SAY WE’RE RACIST?!
February 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Republicans: Remove references to DEI from everything!
Also Republicans: WHY DID THE MEAN MAN TOM HANKS SAY WE’RE RACIST?!
Also Republicans: WHY DID THE MEAN MAN TOM HANKS SAY WE’RE RACIST?!
Catching up on last night’s SNL Homecoming concert, which is pretty freaking great. And after somehow making it this far in my life without ever hearing Brandi Carlisle, her performance of “The Joke” – what a song! – has me immediately checking out her discography.
February 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Catching up on last night’s SNL Homecoming concert, which is pretty freaking great. And after somehow making it this far in my life without ever hearing Brandi Carlisle, her performance of “The Joke” – what a song! – has me immediately checking out her discography.
Severance, but the other guy reads my student evaluations at the end of the semester.
February 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Severance, but the other guy reads my student evaluations at the end of the semester.
The USPS seeing if Sam Rebelein’s new book can fly.
Spoiler alert: it cannot.
Spoiler alert: it cannot.
February 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The USPS seeing if Sam Rebelein’s new book can fly.
Spoiler alert: it cannot.
Spoiler alert: it cannot.
This has been the longest 22 days of my life.
February 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This has been the longest 22 days of my life.
In a tale as old as time, a coterie of mediocre white dudes – presumably the same ones who suddenly cared about Lizzo playing an old flute a few years ago – are all over social media complaining about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance.
They “don’t get it.” (1/3)
They “don’t get it.” (1/3)
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
In a tale as old as time, a coterie of mediocre white dudes – presumably the same ones who suddenly cared about Lizzo playing an old flute a few years ago – are all over social media complaining about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance.
They “don’t get it.” (1/3)
They “don’t get it.” (1/3)
In a shocking turn of events . . .
February 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In a shocking turn of events . . .
A Venn diagram of the mediocre white dudes who are suddenly experts in the Roman salute and the mediocre white dudes who suddenly cared about Lizzo playing an old flute is a single overlapping circle.
January 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A Venn diagram of the mediocre white dudes who are suddenly experts in the Roman salute and the mediocre white dudes who suddenly cared about Lizzo playing an old flute is a single overlapping circle.
#NowSpinning:
Blur – Parklife
Blur’s masterpiece still sounds as fresh as it ever did. In the Blur vs. Oasis kerfuffle, the Gallaghers had the better debut, but Blur were better over the long haul. And Parklife is as good as Definitely Maybe, giving Damon Albarn and Co. the win.
#MusicSky #Blur
Blur – Parklife
Blur’s masterpiece still sounds as fresh as it ever did. In the Blur vs. Oasis kerfuffle, the Gallaghers had the better debut, but Blur were better over the long haul. And Parklife is as good as Definitely Maybe, giving Damon Albarn and Co. the win.
#MusicSky #Blur
January 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#NowSpinning:
Blur – Parklife
Blur’s masterpiece still sounds as fresh as it ever did. In the Blur vs. Oasis kerfuffle, the Gallaghers had the better debut, but Blur were better over the long haul. And Parklife is as good as Definitely Maybe, giving Damon Albarn and Co. the win.
#MusicSky #Blur
Blur – Parklife
Blur’s masterpiece still sounds as fresh as it ever did. In the Blur vs. Oasis kerfuffle, the Gallaghers had the better debut, but Blur were better over the long haul. And Parklife is as good as Definitely Maybe, giving Damon Albarn and Co. the win.
#MusicSky #Blur
Some of my music nerd friends and I have a text thread where we hold March Madness-style single-elimination brackets on various music-related themes.
I’m currently running one on best movie soundtrack. Disqualifier: it can’t be one where a majority of the songs were written FOR the movie. (1/3)
I’m currently running one on best movie soundtrack. Disqualifier: it can’t be one where a majority of the songs were written FOR the movie. (1/3)
January 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Some of my music nerd friends and I have a text thread where we hold March Madness-style single-elimination brackets on various music-related themes.
I’m currently running one on best movie soundtrack. Disqualifier: it can’t be one where a majority of the songs were written FOR the movie. (1/3)
I’m currently running one on best movie soundtrack. Disqualifier: it can’t be one where a majority of the songs were written FOR the movie. (1/3)
It’s adorable that people are just now discovering the GOP’s decades-long quest to destroy and privatize public education.
Some of us have been shouting about it for years, but the mainstream press – including many respected education journals – told us We’Re JuSt BeInG pArAnOiD.
Some of us have been shouting about it for years, but the mainstream press – including many respected education journals – told us We’Re JuSt BeInG pArAnOiD.
December 29, 2024 at 6:37 AM
It’s adorable that people are just now discovering the GOP’s decades-long quest to destroy and privatize public education.
Some of us have been shouting about it for years, but the mainstream press – including many respected education journals – told us We’Re JuSt BeInG pArAnOiD.
Some of us have been shouting about it for years, but the mainstream press – including many respected education journals – told us We’Re JuSt BeInG pArAnOiD.
I love all the progressive starter packs, and it would be fun to be included in one. But the expectation to follow people back is a problem. I don’t want my entire feed to be taken up with Trump stuff.
Because even anti-Trump stuff is still Trump stuff.
And the less of him in my life, the better.
Because even anti-Trump stuff is still Trump stuff.
And the less of him in my life, the better.
December 27, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I love all the progressive starter packs, and it would be fun to be included in one. But the expectation to follow people back is a problem. I don’t want my entire feed to be taken up with Trump stuff.
Because even anti-Trump stuff is still Trump stuff.
And the less of him in my life, the better.
Because even anti-Trump stuff is still Trump stuff.
And the less of him in my life, the better.
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 1:21 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 17, 2024 at 2:18 AM