gabriel b
@gyzyby.bsky.social
early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet,
The glowing violet,
The musk-rose and the well-attir'd woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears
The glowing violet,
The musk-rose and the well-attir'd woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet,
The glowing violet,
The musk-rose and the well-attir'd woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears
The glowing violet,
The musk-rose and the well-attir'd woodbine,
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears
ultimately, I accomplished what I set out to achieve this year: secure my Amtrak Select status for the second year running
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
ultimately, I accomplished what I set out to achieve this year: secure my Amtrak Select status for the second year running
this is, to the pixel, what a Harold Bloom seminar looked like
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this is, to the pixel, what a Harold Bloom seminar looked like
dammit. the production of "Travesties" with Tom Hollander about 8 years back was the best thing I've ever seen in a theater. I went 3 times.
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
dammit. the production of "Travesties" with Tom Hollander about 8 years back was the best thing I've ever seen in a theater. I went 3 times.
be sweet to the gay men in your life today; they probably did not manage to get tickets in the presale for Robyn's NYE show in Brooklyn and are having a rough go of it.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
be sweet to the gay men in your life today; they probably did not manage to get tickets in the presale for Robyn's NYE show in Brooklyn and are having a rough go of it.
the second biggest headline on the NYT right now is about the Harvard-Yale game you cannot make this up
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
the second biggest headline on the NYT right now is about the Harvard-Yale game you cannot make this up
I nor on his wood tilly “AI!”
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I nor on his wood tilly “AI!”
Tonight’s about to pop off
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Tonight’s about to pop off
Reposted by gabriel b
hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)
[driving to work in a completely normal way, but having seen one battle after another for the second time last night]: wow this is just like one battle after another. the scene with the cars.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
[driving to work in a completely normal way, but having seen one battle after another for the second time last night]: wow this is just like one battle after another. the scene with the cars.
hear me out............... macroplastics
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
hear me out............... macroplastics
hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)
the shipment has arrived and the panic augmented. help!!!!!
i have bean club panic
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
the shipment has arrived and the panic augmented. help!!!!!
terrible night for small liberal arts colleges in Maine that are not Bowdoin
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
terrible night for small liberal arts colleges in Maine that are not Bowdoin
pronouncing cisgender like an italian would
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
pronouncing cisgender like an italian would
i have bean club panic
October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
i have bean club panic
wake me up when this website is no longer the Platner Chatner
October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
wake me up when this website is no longer the Platner Chatner
I am going to start a website called stupidgayjobs.com where if you're gay you can go and get a stupid job that you're just naturally good at even though you have no traditional qualifications for it
stupidgayjobs.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am going to start a website called stupidgayjobs.com where if you're gay you can go and get a stupid job that you're just naturally good at even though you have no traditional qualifications for it
has a title ever more perfectly described its own show?
October 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
has a title ever more perfectly described its own show?
every single thing about this Bill Nighy interview is the most delightful thing I've ever heard. you are ok Bill Nighy!!
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
every single thing about this Bill Nighy interview is the most delightful thing I've ever heard. you are ok Bill Nighy!!
Tana French’s “The Likeness” is a better novel than Donna Tartt’s “Secret History”
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Tana French’s “The Likeness” is a better novel than Donna Tartt’s “Secret History”
thrilled to report that this is the real, official sample application on the Fulbright website
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
thrilled to report that this is the real, official sample application on the Fulbright website
listen, I know Pynchon isn't exactly Dan Brown, but he is one of the best-regarded literary novelists in the country! good grief!
September 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
listen, I know Pynchon isn't exactly Dan Brown, but he is one of the best-regarded literary novelists in the country! good grief!