Jesse Raber
@jraber.bsky.social
Working on a literary history of Chicago - Author of Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: bit.ly/2AhdjaH - Co-creator of the Chicago Writing Gallery at the American Writers Museum - let's talk about cooking, ceramics, ebikes
After months of intermittent kiln access and etc, finally got these votives glazed and fired. Let there be light!
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
After months of intermittent kiln access and etc, finally got these votives glazed and fired. Let there be light!
Rewatched Casablanca last night and found this on the apps this morning. (In the movie the line is "New York": the Nazi says "Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris? ... How about New York?")
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Rewatched Casablanca last night and found this on the apps this morning. (In the movie the line is "New York": the Nazi says "Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris? ... How about New York?")
Boning up for this conversation of the titans @leifw.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social on Friday 12/12 at the Sem Coop.
LFG!
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
LFG!
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Boning up for this conversation of the titans @leifw.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social on Friday 12/12 at the Sem Coop.
LFG!
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
LFG!
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
you're the expert on South Asian religion, right? you tell us!
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
you're the expert on South Asian religion, right? you tell us!
Dreiser on Chicago leaving Norris in the dust bombast-wise
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Dreiser on Chicago leaving Norris in the dust bombast-wise
Attended a lovely tribute to Margaret Burroughs yesterday (thanks @invisible.institute ). Performances from veterans of her prison art/poetry classes, personal remembrances, and, most striking right now, a story of how she defied the 1950s loyalty oath as a Chicago public school teacher. A legend.
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Attended a lovely tribute to Margaret Burroughs yesterday (thanks @invisible.institute ). Performances from veterans of her prison art/poetry classes, personal remembrances, and, most striking right now, a story of how she defied the 1950s loyalty oath as a Chicago public school teacher. A legend.
Wow. We'll see if she follows through with this but good on her.
Might be time to dust off those covid lockdown era "Lori is watching you" memes.
Might be time to dust off those covid lockdown era "Lori is watching you" memes.
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Wow. We'll see if she follows through with this but good on her.
Might be time to dust off those covid lockdown era "Lori is watching you" memes.
Might be time to dust off those covid lockdown era "Lori is watching you" memes.
Fist pumping construction worker at the Thompson Center
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Fist pumping construction worker at the Thompson Center
Hard to see but there are maga hats up on the Trump Tower deck smugly waving at the crowd
October 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hard to see but there are maga hats up on the Trump Tower deck smugly waving at the crowd
The main body of marchers arrives on Michigan Ave
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The main body of marchers arrives on Michigan Ave
We all know "give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Time to remember the beginning of the sonnet:
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land ..."
Time to remember the beginning of the sonnet:
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land ..."
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We all know "give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Time to remember the beginning of the sonnet:
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land ..."
Time to remember the beginning of the sonnet:
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land ..."
best find of this year's Hyde Park Used Book Sale: this "anthology of bad verse" by Wyndham Lewis, with incredibly bitchy biographies of "contributors" like Wordsworth, Tennyson, Emerson, Poetry, and even Keats
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
best find of this year's Hyde Park Used Book Sale: this "anthology of bad verse" by Wyndham Lewis, with incredibly bitchy biographies of "contributors" like Wordsworth, Tennyson, Emerson, Poetry, and even Keats
The other side of this coin is when enough time passes that everybody imagines these people living "around the same time"
October 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The other side of this coin is when enough time passes that everybody imagines these people living "around the same time"
An incredibly touchy subject around here, and the Triibe is one of the few outlets that can properly frame it.
This graf is so fascinating:
This graf is so fascinating:
October 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
An incredibly touchy subject around here, and the Triibe is one of the few outlets that can properly frame it.
This graf is so fascinating:
This graf is so fascinating:
Broadview today. Illinois State Police keep the crowd from interacting with ICE, brandishing pepperball guns.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov , why are you okay with this?
Same question to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who also had officers there.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov , why are you okay with this?
Same question to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who also had officers there.
October 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Broadview today. Illinois State Police keep the crowd from interacting with ICE, brandishing pepperball guns.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov , why are you okay with this?
Same question to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who also had officers there.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov , why are you okay with this?
Same question to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who also had officers there.
There is so much evil in this image.
(I mean it's a great photo, good job Maira who I don't think is on here.)
(I mean it's a great photo, good job Maira who I don't think is on here.)
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
There is so much evil in this image.
(I mean it's a great photo, good job Maira who I don't think is on here.)
(I mean it's a great photo, good job Maira who I don't think is on here.)
Is it significant, one wonders, that the ships he's criticizing are the stealth dealies that look like Cybertrucks of the waves?
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Is it significant, one wonders, that the ships he's criticizing are the stealth dealies that look like Cybertrucks of the waves?
Here's something from good old Wikipedia.
September 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here's something from good old Wikipedia.
Just remembering this great Dorothy Parker burn that, come to think of it, might be about the penisiness of blank verse.
September 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Just remembering this great Dorothy Parker burn that, come to think of it, might be about the penisiness of blank verse.
Holy shit these people are pathetic
September 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Holy shit these people are pathetic
Not uncharacteristic! He could deprecate himself both jokingly and seriously. Sorry, I'm teaching him this semester and can't help myself.
September 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not uncharacteristic! He could deprecate himself both jokingly and seriously. Sorry, I'm teaching him this semester and can't help myself.
Am I the only one who doesn't watch late night TV but does remember Kimmel fondly from *Win Ben Stein's Money*? I can't believe the fash came after the smarmy smart guy's performatively dumb sidekick.
September 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Am I the only one who doesn't watch late night TV but does remember Kimmel fondly from *Win Ben Stein's Money*? I can't believe the fash came after the smarmy smart guy's performatively dumb sidekick.