Jessica Fripp
@jlfripp.bsky.social
Birthright Citizen. Assoc. Prof TCU, author of Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France. Now working on aging and older women (funded by the NEH.)
I have 2 cats.
Views are my own (or my cats’).
Living every week like it’s shark week.
I have 2 cats.
Views are my own (or my cats’).
Living every week like it’s shark week.
Greuze and David in Paris. Plus a little moment at the Seine to memorialize M. Colbert’s Paris life.
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Greuze and David in Paris. Plus a little moment at the Seine to memorialize M. Colbert’s Paris life.
I’m happy to see Colbert isn’t backing down in his last months. Jesse Welles played this song on the broadcast show youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...
Join Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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November 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I’m happy to see Colbert isn’t backing down in his last months. Jesse Welles played this song on the broadcast show youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...
Today’s lecture marked the return of my quarantine friend, Brian Koozey, who was introduced to me by the automatic captioning on Panopto. Remember those days?
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today’s lecture marked the return of my quarantine friend, Brian Koozey, who was introduced to me by the automatic captioning on Panopto. Remember those days?
The Dallas Opera’s production of Dialogues of the Carmelites was *amazing*. Patricia Racette is a force and I’m glad my opera buddy cried as hard as I did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Dallas Opera’s production of Dialogues of the Carmelites was *amazing*. Patricia Racette is a force and I’m glad my opera buddy cried as hard as I did.
M. Le Petit Colbert left this mortal coil today at 18 1/2 years. He was adopted in Ann Arbor, MI, and lived in Paris, Zurich, New York City before settling down in Fort Worth. He helped his human grade, study, write a dissertation, a book, and get tenure.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
M. Le Petit Colbert left this mortal coil today at 18 1/2 years. He was adopted in Ann Arbor, MI, and lived in Paris, Zurich, New York City before settling down in Fort Worth. He helped his human grade, study, write a dissertation, a book, and get tenure.
My favorite thing about this kerfuffle is the idea that outside people thought they could get (and deserved) a space for 1,000 people on short notice at TCU (a private campus).
October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
My favorite thing about this kerfuffle is the idea that outside people thought they could get (and deserved) a space for 1,000 people on short notice at TCU (a private campus).
Stumbled upon the memorial to the WWI horses in Paris today.
June 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Stumbled upon the memorial to the WWI horses in Paris today.
Good turn out in Paris today
June 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Good turn out in Paris today
Has anyone checked in with the Afrikaner refugees now that Trump and Musk hate each other?
June 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Has anyone checked in with the Afrikaner refugees now that Trump and Musk hate each other?
Also this is the best mission impossible theme and no I will not be taking question.
youtu.be/jLDkncpG4V0?...
youtu.be/jLDkncpG4V0?...
Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen (U2) - Theme From Mission: Impossible (official video) 1996
YouTube video by U2 Argentina
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May 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Also this is the best mission impossible theme and no I will not be taking question.
youtu.be/jLDkncpG4V0?...
youtu.be/jLDkncpG4V0?...
Going to officially petition for the question posed in this classic bit of internet writing be change from “how tall” to “how old” because digitally de-aging did some wild things between dead reckoning and final reckoning. www.theawl.com/2011/12/miss...
"Mission Impossible": I Don't Understand How Tall Everyone Is
Paula Patton is 5'4" (allegedly).
Jeremy Renner is allegedly 5'10" but last time I lit his cigarette I had to bend down. (That’s what… she said?)
Tom Cruise is tall enough to kick this dude in the c...
www.theawl.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Going to officially petition for the question posed in this classic bit of internet writing be change from “how tall” to “how old” because digitally de-aging did some wild things between dead reckoning and final reckoning. www.theawl.com/2011/12/miss...
Had my first colonoscopy yesterday. Woke up from anesthesia telling everyone I was going home to hang out with my cats.
May 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Had my first colonoscopy yesterday. Woke up from anesthesia telling everyone I was going home to hang out with my cats.
If I’m going to be forced to have some part of Christian faith displayed in public schools, I’d go for the beatitudes instead of the 10 commandments. Especially “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.” tinyurl.com/bdz27jwk
Texas will require public school classrooms to display Ten Commandments under bill nearing passage
The House has approved Senate Bill 10 even though a similar Louisiana law was deemed unconstitutional. Supporters say Christianity is core to U.S. history.
tinyurl.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If I’m going to be forced to have some part of Christian faith displayed in public schools, I’d go for the beatitudes instead of the 10 commandments. Especially “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.” tinyurl.com/bdz27jwk
It was take all the cats to the vet day and everyone is zonked. Especially the elder statesman who has become non compliant in his old age and gets a dose of gabapentin.
May 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It was take all the cats to the vet day and everyone is zonked. Especially the elder statesman who has become non compliant in his old age and gets a dose of gabapentin.
Another semester (my 18th) at TCU done and dusted. It was, as they say, a doozy.
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Another semester (my 18th) at TCU done and dusted. It was, as they say, a doozy.
Looking forward to pivoting from my work on the representation of aging women/menopause in the 18-c (which received money from the NEH) to…making bronze or marble statues for…this thing?
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes
www.neh.gov
April 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Looking forward to pivoting from my work on the representation of aging women/menopause in the 18-c (which received money from the NEH) to…making bronze or marble statues for…this thing?
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
Has someone done a compilation of Noah Wiley putting his stethoscope around his neck on ER and The Pitt?
If not, you’re welcome for the genius idea.
If not, you’re welcome for the genius idea.
April 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Has someone done a compilation of Noah Wiley putting his stethoscope around his neck on ER and The Pitt?
If not, you’re welcome for the genius idea.
If not, you’re welcome for the genius idea.
If you think this is “art” and appropriate for the White House then, well, have I got news for you. (Spoiler: it’s not news, it’s a lesson in propaganda).
April 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you think this is “art” and appropriate for the White House then, well, have I got news for you. (Spoiler: it’s not news, it’s a lesson in propaganda).
Sometimes when I think I’m overreacting to something, I remember the time I sent a Liverpool fan the performance of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at the Kennedy Honors (RIP) and explained the plot of Carousel.
(No shade, Liverpudlians. It’s Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s fault)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj1XmWey/
(No shade, Liverpudlians. It’s Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s fault)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj1XmWey/
Tituss Burgess,Susan Graham,and Christine Baranski -“you’ll never walk alone”for Renée Fleming #titussburgess #susangraham #christinebaranski #reneefleming #kennedycenterhonors #foryou #fyp
TikTok video by Torespectgulu01
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April 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Sometimes when I think I’m overreacting to something, I remember the time I sent a Liverpool fan the performance of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at the Kennedy Honors (RIP) and explained the plot of Carousel.
(No shade, Liverpudlians. It’s Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s fault)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj1XmWey/
(No shade, Liverpudlians. It’s Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s fault)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj1XmWey/
The NEH summer stipend was amazing for getting my new book project off the ground. Sad to see it’s being cut.
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The NEH summer stipend was amazing for getting my new book project off the ground. Sad to see it’s being cut.
If your grad program includes full tuition and a stipend, please stop treating “tuition” as part of your students’ incomes. It doesn’t pay their rent, food, gas, books, can’t deduct it from their taxes. Yes, they should be grateful that their tuition is covered, but the students live on the stipend.
March 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
If your grad program includes full tuition and a stipend, please stop treating “tuition” as part of your students’ incomes. It doesn’t pay their rent, food, gas, books, can’t deduct it from their taxes. Yes, they should be grateful that their tuition is covered, but the students live on the stipend.
What did you accomplish last week? apnews.com/article/elon...
Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week or face consequences
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have until just before Tuesday to explain what they accomplished over the last week.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What did you accomplish last week? apnews.com/article/elon...
The apartheid stuff is obviously gross (and unsurprising) but on a personal level I’m laughing that my family is both more South African and more American when it comes to immigration and citizenship.
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The apartheid stuff is obviously gross (and unsurprising) but on a personal level I’m laughing that my family is both more South African and more American when it comes to immigration and citizenship.