Paul J. Niemeyer
@pauljniemeyer.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English (19th-21st centuries) at Texas A&M International University, a growing uni on the US/Mexico border. Build huge Legos when I’m stressed, which is a lot.
Looks familiar…
March 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Looks familiar…
I’ve heard of artists doing HAND studies, but…
February 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’ve heard of artists doing HAND studies, but…
Hmmmm….who coulda commissioned that?
February 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Hmmmm….who coulda commissioned that?
I’m an English professor and I can always tell AI… it always sounds like a polished blurb on the back of a classic novel. I tell my students “‘This was a cool poem’ is a thousand times better than ‘This poem resounds with the intensity its author felt at the outbreak of the First World War…’”
January 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I’m an English professor and I can always tell AI… it always sounds like a polished blurb on the back of a classic novel. I tell my students “‘This was a cool poem’ is a thousand times better than ‘This poem resounds with the intensity its author felt at the outbreak of the First World War…’”
Good to know. Just two days ago I had to have my cat, Bette (16 and once my late father’s cat), put down after her kidneys shut down. Surprised how bereft I am…
January 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Good to know. Just two days ago I had to have my cat, Bette (16 and once my late father’s cat), put down after her kidneys shut down. Surprised how bereft I am…
My cat (16, and who used to belong to my late father) is having serious kidney issues. She has medicine and I have to take her in every other day for fluid injections, but I wonder if this might be it…
January 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My cat (16, and who used to belong to my late father) is having serious kidney issues. She has medicine and I have to take her in every other day for fluid injections, but I wonder if this might be it…
Both look great, but the B&W is edgier and a bit more serious. The color one could get you accused of selling style rather than substance. (IMHO, of course.)
January 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Both look great, but the B&W is edgier and a bit more serious. The color one could get you accused of selling style rather than substance. (IMHO, of course.)
I get burned next to a lighted light bulb…
January 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I get burned next to a lighted light bulb…
Ya don’t see dressage in Laredo….
January 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Ya don’t see dressage in Laredo….
My brother and SIL gifted Bette this cord with wooden beads to play with. She treats it like a beaded seat cover…
December 30, 2024 at 4:52 PM
My brother and SIL gifted Bette this cord with wooden beads to play with. She treats it like a beaded seat cover…
I guess you could say that father died of a GRAVE condition!
a man in a suit is saying goodnight everybody
ALT: a man in a suit is saying goodnight everybody
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
I guess you could say that father died of a GRAVE condition!
The one true Superman.
December 21, 2024 at 4:03 AM
The one true Superman.
Something about that nose…
December 18, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Something about that nose…
Born right here in Laredo, Texas.
December 17, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Born right here in Laredo, Texas.
Your rejects still look like high art to me.
December 15, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Your rejects still look like high art to me.
Sold by the “Listerine Man” cowboy who promised you a trip to “Antiseptic Country.”
December 15, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Sold by the “Listerine Man” cowboy who promised you a trip to “Antiseptic Country.”
I read it on the recommendation of a colleague. All I’ll say is I’m apparently way, way out of the mainstream…
December 10, 2024 at 10:10 PM
I read it on the recommendation of a colleague. All I’ll say is I’m apparently way, way out of the mainstream…
But a lot of states require it, as well as vaults. Both my parents were cremated, and in Arizona we had to put the cremains in vaults…and there they will be until the end of time. In many ways, I think Towers of Silence are ideal…
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
But a lot of states require it, as well as vaults. Both my parents were cremated, and in Arizona we had to put the cremains in vaults…and there they will be until the end of time. In many ways, I think Towers of Silence are ideal…
This has been one thing that’s kept me from fully embracing Baha’i. I understand that the body should be respected; but pumping the body with chemicals and sealing it in a vault to preserve it forever is, I feel, far more disrespectful than flames.
December 9, 2024 at 5:11 AM
This has been one thing that’s kept me from fully embracing Baha’i. I understand that the body should be respected; but pumping the body with chemicals and sealing it in a vault to preserve it forever is, I feel, far more disrespectful than flames.
You could be like Byron and drink wine out of one.
December 5, 2024 at 5:34 AM
You could be like Byron and drink wine out of one.
I’ve always thought this cover is more appropriate for something like ORDINARY PEOPLE. Not very scary. BTW, good on you for keeping up with this. I gave up after getting not a single like. I’m starting to think this is just a site for bashing Trump, nothing else…
December 4, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I’ve always thought this cover is more appropriate for something like ORDINARY PEOPLE. Not very scary. BTW, good on you for keeping up with this. I gave up after getting not a single like. I’m starting to think this is just a site for bashing Trump, nothing else…
“Joaquer?” Ooh la la, que Francais! (If that makes sense. No lo habla francés.)
December 4, 2024 at 5:38 PM
“Joaquer?” Ooh la la, que Francais! (If that makes sense. No lo habla francés.)
Those sober, serious Victorians…
December 1, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Those sober, serious Victorians…