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Cats, dogs, books, faeries, dragons. Cool Ranch Doritos and the BVM

Also teach medieval and other kooky literature to students who don’t know yet how much they will love it. #teamgrendel
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Photo of a brown dog with a white stripe down his nose, posing on a couch while another dog, this one small and black, side eyes the camera from behind the brown dog.
October 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Have taught this translation since it came out. Doing so again right now!
Photo of the cover of Headley’s translation of Beowulf.
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Every year I teach Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th century poem, and every year I’m reminded that it’s the giant green knight that is easily the hottest of all the knights—and the poem knows it too.
Text from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Now of their meal I will say nothing more, for you are all well aware that no one went hungry there. Another noise that was new drew near all of a sudden, so that their lord might be allowed at last to eat food. For hardly had the music but a moment ended, and the first course in the court, as was custom, been served, when there passed through the portals a perilous horseman, the mightiest on earth in measure of height, from his throat to his stomach so great and so square, and his loins and his limbs so long and so huge, that a half-giant still on this earth I believe that he was, but the largest man alive at least I will call him; and yet the hugest for his size that could sit on a horse, for though in back and in chest his body was broad, both his stomach and his waist were properly slim, and all his facial features fit the same fashion as he rode: the men all gaped aghast at the face and form that showed; this creature striding past green all over glowed. Picture of the green knight from the 2021 film, The Green Knight
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Fill in the blank pen pal letter for first graders.
July 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This dog is asleep
July 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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This dog has no head.
July 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This dog is flat.
July 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Painfully accurate. Here I am taking my kid to the playground today.
Scene from Terminator 2 when Sarah Connor tries to get kids off a playground before a nuclear blast hits.
June 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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A real gem
June 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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May 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The babies . . .
Promotional poster for the musical Death Rattle Dazzle from Only Murders in the Building
May 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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April 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Nathan Fielder meme image of him laughing that originally read “out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They’re all just out of frame, laughing too.”
April 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Back on the Neko Atsume slow train to joy and fulfillment.

Random seeds!!!!
April 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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“In Rome”
Map of Rome, Georgia.
April 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Friday vibes from Penny
March 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Derp
March 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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You missed Alice helping Santa
March 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Bringing back a baseball golden age?
March 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I like how this lineup makes it look like the real Reacher is looking back at the widdle baby pretend Reacher as if to say, “you’re really short.”
Poster for Reacher series above the poster for Tom Cruise’s version of Reacher
March 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Hi! I voted to censure Al Green AND Rashida Tlaib! Call me and let me know what you think!
A picture of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez from her website
March 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM