The Real Slim Sade

The Real Slim Sade

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Erstwhile English/radio prof, ersatz policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com

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Update from the bug zoo

What they don’t tell you about Icelandic literature is: hot turnip similes.

Rishi Sunak weeping quietly while singing to himself, to the tune of “Cruel Summer”: And it's new, the shape of your victory, It's blue, the feeling I've got And it's ooh, whoa, oh It's Keir Starmer

Civil Disobedience, aka

1) Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm 2) James Joyce, Dubliners 3) E.M. Forster, A Passage to India 4) Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again! This time we're doing something new to #BQT methodology: word association. Name four of your favorite books (in any genre) brought to mind by these four words: 1) Liberation 2) Mealtime 3) Cartography 4) Snow As always, please feel free to include cover images!

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this has to have been done before, right? I can't be the first to think of it?

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Two-year VAP at Eastman in “global musicology” with applications due July 1. Please circulate! apply.interfolio.com/148223

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birthday boy Billy Wilder's advice to writers on their responsibility to the reader

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Yesterday, finished typesetting & corrections for ‘The Adventures of Lady Egeria’ (1585), the first supernatural horror novel in English (never before reprinted). It was an honor to collaborate with scholar Steven Moore on this unusual book, who did a terrific job introducing & modernizing the text.

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This is batshit!

As you probably know, Belmondo did all his own stuntwork until he was injured at 52, including a scene running on top of a Métro train in Peur sur la Ville. Here he is falling down a mountain and escaping a major head injury through sheer dumb luck

The Burglars (1971) - Jean-Paul Belmondo quarry stuntwww.youtube.com Insane stunt by the lead actor of The Burglars (1971), Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Update: it’s happening! Didn’t plan on a little Icelandic excursion this summer but sometimes life slaps you in the face with the herring of opportunity.

Should I squeeze in a few days’ layover in Iceland en route to Ireland this summer, y/n. Important context: traveling with a 3.5 year old and a 5-month old.

Should I squeeze in a few days’ layover in Iceland en route to Ireland this summer, y/n. Important context: traveling with a 3.5 year old and a 5-month old.

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guess i'm just built different (unable to use adverbs)

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This is the national trend, and it’s bar none the saddest thing in education right now

UNC Asheville is going to close its drama, philosophy, religious studies, French, and German depts because financial consultants recommend this. These consultants only count the number of majors, not the number who take and are influenced by courses from depts other than their major. Shame!

Last time I experienced a Dutch Roll I woke up twelve hours later with no shoes and a pet meerkat in the Vondelpark.

A Boeing 737 Max 8 jet experienced a rare problem known as a "Dutch roll" before landing safely. The cause of the accident during a Southwest Airlines flight last month is under investigation.

The FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in midairwww.npr.org A Boeing 737 Max 8 jet experienced a rare problem known as a Dutch roll before landing safely. The cause of the incident during a Southwest Airlines flight last month is under investigation.

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It's his summer to shine

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Why do they call it a poetry slam and not No Holds Bard?

Why do they call it a poetry slam and not No Holds Bard?

This is a cool house if you have $3 million and have ever wanted to live in a birch wood starship Enterprise realtor.ca/real-estate/...

tfw you’ve stunned the orgy into silence

the room seeming almost supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to congratulate myself

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happy, er, pun day everybody

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I was so confused as to why this was in the comic bin at the cottage.

What are the best real comics team-ups?

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coming winter 25

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not sure why these balloons are so expensive but I'm blaming inflation

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They say this cat Taft is a bad mother... (Shut your mouth) I'm talkin' 'bout Taft (Then we can dig it)

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JOB: Open rank tenured/TT position, Indigenous Histories of the Americas and Surrounding Waters, Simon Fraser University Preference for Pacific Northwest focus Review begins 8/15 universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

See also @smosment.bsky.social on the crucial distinction between a butt dial and a booty call

Ladies and gentlemen I just fully hypnotized my toddler into falling asleep by doing the “toes are sleepy, knees are sleepy, fingers and arms are sleepy” thing. Where is my prize? (Reader, the prize was the sleeping toddler I made along the way.)

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finally he’s a man of convictions!

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