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David B Hobbs
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Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
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me at 37y/o: wait
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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me at 20y/o: this guy is the best rapper alive
a lyric excerpt of Lil Wayne’s “Money On My Mind”: “Dear Mr. Toilet / I’m The Shit”
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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her kid got a bloody nose because due to Fall Back he was so tired and bumping into things because he got an extra hour of sleep 👍
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I too ponder this dilemma
happy dog!
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I only want six things and they’re, well, they’re unspeakably terrible
keyword tags from the LibriVox recording of Lovecraft’s “In The Mouth Of Madness,” reading: cthulhu mythos, antarctic, the old ones, shoggoth, foetid odor, and cyclopean architecture
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Coriolanus-ass discourse
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I am the unc who’s chopped
walter bad from the show breaking bad
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I have an idea
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I think we get that pretty vividly in this juxtaposition here
excerpt from a recent Yale Review article about Taylor Swift: “ Some wanted more introspection; others have lamented Swift’s apparent retreat from politics, though I doubt she’d do her best work if she wrote songs about undocumented immigrants.” excerpt from recent Yale Review article about Taylor Swift: “ Fans who wonder why she won’t denounce the pro-Trump views of other NFLers, or their wives, should remember that Kelce has to work with these people: their distrust would put his life and limb at risk.”
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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"Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head."
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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the idea that One Battle After Another is about dealing with “the world that [DiCaprio’s character] failed to change“ seems to miss how the long first act shows that the world has changed, that the town is called “Baktan Cross” after the longest duration on the Mayan calendar
from The Guardian’s recent article, “The revolution will be in VistaVision: what are the politics of One Battle After Another?” “A movie more focused on the mechanics of leftist political and community action would probably focus more on Sergio St Carlos (Benicio del Toro), a local karate sensei who also supervises a “Latino Harriet Tubman situation” shepherding undocumented immigrants. Again, he’s portrayed positively enough to irritate the hardliners, who won’t take much solace in the film’s lead being a fortysomething Father of a Daughter. But Anderson – himself, as so many have pointed out, the father of mixed-race children – has really made a movie about the way priorities shift with age. The movie isn’t really about Bob figuring out how to change the world himself, but rather how to best protect his daughter from a world that he seemingly failed to change.”
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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a meme capture of the iconic moment in One Battle After Another when Benicio del Toro’s Sensei Carlos responds “a few small beers” to the highway cop’s asking whether he has been drinking
September 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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it’s so good
September 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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when you hate your voters
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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how it feels to go to the market
it’s Gooby at the market
September 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨
still of Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson and Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger and from Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, I am borrowing a meme template from Jesse Hawkins
August 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness
Victor Wong & Donald Pleasance in John Carpenter’s “Prince of Darkness” (1987)
August 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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happy hot boy monday
a corgi who is panting because he’s hot
August 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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would I be happier if I just talked myself into liking adult animation
Kim Petras in the Heart To Break video looking plaintive and sitting on a window sill
July 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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humiliating national culture we’ve got here
cover of a forthcoming anthology of “Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance” that is entitled “Elbows Up!” a hockey catchphrase popularized by Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings
July 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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reigniting my beef with Winnicott
screenshot of the abstract of DW Winnicott’s “Psycho-somatic Disorder Reconsidered” essay, which argues that asthma is related to “the child’s management of fantasies of love and hate”
July 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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made a playlist for my fav songs from your forty best albums of the year so far (am also doing a Girls rewatch)
July 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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kiiiiill shot
Still, Pan claims, there is an outsized focus on these disparities; in fact, liberals’ “fixation” on the racial wealth gap is indicative of their desire to maintain the current economic order. “[C]losing most of the existing wealth gap between blacks and whites—without first closing the massive wealth gap between the rich and the poor—would largely necessitate making already-rich black people richer, while conversely, very little of the racial wealth gap would only be closed by helping poor black people acquire more wealth.” That is only true if one doesn’t know the difference between medians and averages.
July 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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did not take a picture of the whole room but once found myself in a toilet with all black fixtures and the paper to match
a black roll of toilet paper
July 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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this is due to Simon Hanselmann’s latest
a panel from Simon Hanselmann’s latest comic
July 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM