Калина
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В Бургас животът е така.
August 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
В Бургас животът е така.
(In fairness, someone else was using it, but I found the image too funny not to share.)
July 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
(In fairness, someone else was using it, but I found the image too funny not to share.)
There’s a modest half-pipe ramp in my local park and this is how the youth make use of it.
July 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
There’s a modest half-pipe ramp in my local park and this is how the youth make use of it.
First time I’ve received a physical copy of Speculum in the mail and it made it all the way from Chicago to Bulgaria. Maybe the Medieval Academy of America membership fee is worth it…?
June 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
First time I’ve received a physical copy of Speculum in the mail and it made it all the way from Chicago to Bulgaria. Maybe the Medieval Academy of America membership fee is worth it…?
Not the recommended trainings slider...
June 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Not the recommended trainings slider...
Twitterstorians in exile: lf you’re not managing your citations with BiberoTex, you are living in the STONE AGE. How hard it is to set up a virtual machine for your footnotes?!
Meanwhile, my citation management system:
Meanwhile, my citation management system:
June 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Twitterstorians in exile: lf you’re not managing your citations with BiberoTex, you are living in the STONE AGE. How hard it is to set up a virtual machine for your footnotes?!
Meanwhile, my citation management system:
Meanwhile, my citation management system:
Not to victim-blame, but at this point it's kind of on junior academics that Oxbridge colleges still believe they can get away with paying postdocs in imaginary CV points. Applying for these JRF scams makes you a scab in my eyes.
May 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Not to victim-blame, but at this point it's kind of on junior academics that Oxbridge colleges still believe they can get away with paying postdocs in imaginary CV points. Applying for these JRF scams makes you a scab in my eyes.
Can you spot da Easter egg in my footnotes?
May 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Can you spot da Easter egg in my footnotes?
Sorry, I didn’t include the actual basketball half-court in the schoolyard next to the massive city wall overlooking the sea…
April 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sorry, I didn’t include the actual basketball half-court in the schoolyard next to the massive city wall overlooking the sea…
Go to the old town in Dubrovnik if you want to play high-stakes basketball.
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Go to the old town in Dubrovnik if you want to play high-stakes basketball.
Anthonis Mor was cooking here TBH. (Saw this at the Rijksmuseum last week.)
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Anthonis Mor was cooking here TBH. (Saw this at the Rijksmuseum last week.)
My iPad reminded me today that I did capture some moments of fleeting beauty in my years in Baltimore…
March 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
My iPad reminded me today that I did capture some moments of fleeting beauty in my years in Baltimore…
(This is the Warhammer store I saw in London, to prove I was serious.)
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
(This is the Warhammer store I saw in London, to prove I was serious.)
There are Warhammer stores everywhere for those with eyes to see. (Also some cathedrals.)
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There are Warhammer stores everywhere for those with eyes to see. (Also some cathedrals.)
I did like the random taxidermied animals here and there.
March 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I did like the random taxidermied animals here and there.
These little shrines to American life, Israeli pantry staples, Philippine Christianity, etc. should give you an idea of how wild this museum is.
March 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
These little shrines to American life, Israeli pantry staples, Philippine Christianity, etc. should give you an idea of how wild this museum is.
The random Tang-era statuettes were amazing.
March 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The random Tang-era statuettes were amazing.
I went inside the Overseas Museum for 15 minutes before they closed and it overloaded the senses in every way.
March 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I went inside the Overseas Museum for 15 minutes before they closed and it overloaded the senses in every way.
They’re showing No Other Land at the cinema in Bremen. Surprising broadmindedness from the local authorities!
March 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
They’re showing No Other Land at the cinema in Bremen. Surprising broadmindedness from the local authorities!
I hate to say it, but these overpriced chocolates and sweets they’ve started selling at Sofia Airport that are each named after a major Bulgarian city are pretty cute.
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I hate to say it, but these overpriced chocolates and sweets they’ve started selling at Sofia Airport that are each named after a major Bulgarian city are pretty cute.
Real Kalina heads know I'm a massive fan of romance novels, but the opening paragraph of this LitHub essay rehabilitating romance as a literary genre is so obnoxious I find myself hoping it disappears off the face of the earth together with this woman.
February 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Real Kalina heads know I'm a massive fan of romance novels, but the opening paragraph of this LitHub essay rehabilitating romance as a literary genre is so obnoxious I find myself hoping it disappears off the face of the earth together with this woman.
This is what every conference session should be: just you, you, you, your grad school buddy, the one random person who responded to your call for papers, and your grad school buddy's concluding remarks.
February 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is what every conference session should be: just you, you, you, your grad school buddy, the one random person who responded to your call for papers, and your grad school buddy's concluding remarks.
Thomas Cohen's "Masculinity as Competence" (in Premodern Masculinities in Transition, eds. J. Murray and K. Eisenbichler) makes some really great points about gender roles IMO. Model masculinity is not, & has never been, based on a singular standard, & it mobilizes criteria women are also judged by.
February 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thomas Cohen's "Masculinity as Competence" (in Premodern Masculinities in Transition, eds. J. Murray and K. Eisenbichler) makes some really great points about gender roles IMO. Model masculinity is not, & has never been, based on a singular standard, & it mobilizes criteria women are also judged by.