John Kuhn
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
campus is looking good tho! Welcome winter!
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
campus is looking good tho! Welcome winter!
Back on an excellent doomscrolling prevention hobby: knitting slightly lumpy scarves
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Back on an excellent doomscrolling prevention hobby: knitting slightly lumpy scarves
roasting this bad boy today
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
roasting this bad boy today
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
horrible update (not for the faint of heart): it turns out she had only eaten part of the rabbit and stashed the rest under the porch, which I discovered when she tried to sneak the rest of it back into the house for a second gnawing session
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
horrible update (not for the faint of heart): it turns out she had only eaten part of the rabbit and stashed the rest under the porch, which I discovered when she tried to sneak the rest of it back into the house for a second gnawing session
I'm supposed to be flying to ASTR this weekend, which is meeting in Denver (home of the nation's third busiest airport, almost certainly going to be impacted). Not great.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I'm supposed to be flying to ASTR this weekend, which is meeting in Denver (home of the nation's third busiest airport, almost certainly going to be impacted). Not great.
I alas cannot apply for this conference because I will have already blown all my travel money on RSA, but this looks so good. Talking about John Donne at the Biosphere 2 site!!!! In the Arizona desert!
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I alas cannot apply for this conference because I will have already blown all my travel money on RSA, but this looks so good. Talking about John Donne at the Biosphere 2 site!!!! In the Arizona desert!
unsure about this messaging from a local church
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
unsure about this messaging from a local church
One of my favorite local menu items. The Senator’s Special, which is inexplicably a cold meatloaf sandwich. Which senator?!?
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One of my favorite local menu items. The Senator’s Special, which is inexplicably a cold meatloaf sandwich. Which senator?!?
Claire Saffitz roasted lemon tart
November 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Claire Saffitz roasted lemon tart
she does not care for the bandana
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
she does not care for the bandana
Local thrift store inexplicably selling these enormous carved wood conquistador wall hangings
November 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Local thrift store inexplicably selling these enormous carved wood conquistador wall hangings
just taught the beginning of Antony and Cleopatra. Such a masterpiece of imagistic patterning and one of my favorite little linguistic stunts in the Shakespeare corpus. The triple pillar of the world.....
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
just taught the beginning of Antony and Cleopatra. Such a masterpiece of imagistic patterning and one of my favorite little linguistic stunts in the Shakespeare corpus. The triple pillar of the world.....
yes it's very fun to joke about Shelley's Ozymandias, but imagine how hurtful it must have been to be Horace Smith, one of poetry's greatest losers, who challenged Shelley to a friendly sonnet contest on the topic of Ramses II. Shelley wrote Ozymandias and well, here's Horace's lumpy clay pot
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
yes it's very fun to joke about Shelley's Ozymandias, but imagine how hurtful it must have been to be Horace Smith, one of poetry's greatest losers, who challenged Shelley to a friendly sonnet contest on the topic of Ramses II. Shelley wrote Ozymandias and well, here's Horace's lumpy clay pot
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
[I freaking LOVED Lucy Lawless in this role as the serially suicidal, visionary, knowledge-seeking-at-all-costs Number Three]
no one believes me when I tell them how unhinged the Binghamton mayoral race has become but this is a literal flyer I got in the mail today
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
no one believes me when I tell them how unhinged the Binghamton mayoral race has become but this is a literal flyer I got in the mail today
I saw an excellent talk tonight by Stephanie O'Rourke on French landscape painting. A small detail from it: some painting teacher gave pupils TREE EXAMS, where you had to paint a specific type of tree from memory (I could not pass a TREE EXAM). One example: Achille-Etna Michallon, Beech Tree (1817)
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I saw an excellent talk tonight by Stephanie O'Rourke on French landscape painting. A small detail from it: some painting teacher gave pupils TREE EXAMS, where you had to paint a specific type of tree from memory (I could not pass a TREE EXAM). One example: Achille-Etna Michallon, Beech Tree (1817)
clutching the best of the seed catalogues as Daylight Savings Time approaches, remembering that the green time will come again!
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
clutching the best of the seed catalogues as Daylight Savings Time approaches, remembering that the green time will come again!
last day of Sugar Lips (beloved Binghamton roadside ice cream stand) operation until the spring! (I got a chocolate malt and am happy as a clam). And now the fall darkness truly closes in….
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
last day of Sugar Lips (beloved Binghamton roadside ice cream stand) operation until the spring! (I got a chocolate malt and am happy as a clam). And now the fall darkness truly closes in….
I have gone from thinking this tastes like a tree (pejorative) to thinking this tastes like a tree (complimentary)
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I have gone from thinking this tastes like a tree (pejorative) to thinking this tastes like a tree (complimentary)
Saw a talk that reminded me of the gayest of Renaissance poems and thought I’d post it here for your delectation. Henry King’s “The Double Rock”:
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Saw a talk that reminded me of the gayest of Renaissance poems and thought I’d post it here for your delectation. Henry King’s “The Double Rock”:
unrelated to the $700 horse butt, someone else on Marketplace is selling these screaming carousel horse molds ("These were from someone who created carosel horses. I was always going to do something with them, but years later they are still here. They need to find a good home"). A steal at $40!
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
unrelated to the $700 horse butt, someone else on Marketplace is selling these screaming carousel horse molds ("These were from someone who created carosel horses. I was always going to do something with them, but years later they are still here. They need to find a good home"). A steal at $40!
bing craigslist / fb marketplace never misses. "Looking for stolen stove"
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
bing craigslist / fb marketplace never misses. "Looking for stolen stove"
$10 for "Hair (I know nothing about it)"
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
$10 for "Hair (I know nothing about it)"