Bryan Waterman

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Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s.
Dayjob @NYUEnglish

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from now until Election Day, we connect every story back to Project 2025 Eg: The FBI is currently investigating the Trump shooter. But did you know that Project 2025 will place the FBI under Trump’s direct control, so he can decide which acts of political violence get investigated, and which don’t?

Can't get this out of my brain. There's something so perfect about it for the moment we're in. And then there are the Larry David wigs in the video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=094d...

Ok Cowgirl - Larry David (Official Music Video)www.youtube.com YouTube video by Ok Cowgirl

Wonder if any c18 history 🗃️ friends might be able to help decipher some handwriting. I'm looking at a diary of a rather mature Yale undergrad (he's 22 in 1788) in which he mentions reading a "journal" of someone's "letters." The names are a bit unclear. This is followed by a blacked-out paragraph.

Don't worry they will unfreeze him in episode 6.

This is terrifying???? Why does he have zombie hands???? What the fuck is with the butterfly?? Why does he look like the devil incarnate??? "Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told Yeo: "Yes, you've got him.""

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The speed with which many of our faux free speech fundamentalists started demanding the use of state force to punish pro Palestinian protesters is remarkable, they do not even seem to perceive a contradiction

Funny how the older I get the more I find new meaning in this novel.

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La Trahison des images

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Palgrave is hiring an Editor for our Education list. Hybrid Manhattan-based (in office 2x/week). This is def a job where a PhD is valued & I can confirm the work/life balance is better than my faculty role: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/39...

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New York peeps interested in history of the American novel: come hang out this Friday at NYU and have some fun conversations celebrating the publication of vol 8 of Oxford History of the Novel in English, ed. Cyrus Patell & Deborah Williams. RSVP urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

If your calendar works the same way mine does, punk turns 50 today.

50 years ago tonight! Television play the first of many shows at CBGB.

How rude of them to make me carry 50 (!) books, mostly ancient, heavy, and falling apart, back to circulation for in-person renewal. And rude to remind me that I've had these books checked out for more than 10 years. (Ouch!)

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The sickest burn a bookseller can drop

Hard to believe it’s 10 years since I wrote about Serra’s monumental work in Qatar for @hyperallergic.com . Glad I had that chance. #RIP

Thoughts on Richard Serra in Qatarhyperallergic.com DOHA, Qatar — This spring, Richard Serra has made his mark on the Arab Gulf in a characteristically big way. Several important pieces are currently on view in Qatar, two of them permanent installation...

New York Sunday morning. Birds picking over someone's After midnight vomit.

Yeah these covers are hitting me just right.

Hochzeitskapelle, de toeterende vrienden van de Notwist, coveren Pavement en Low en Yo La Tengo en Wir Sind Helden hochzeitskapelle.bandcamp.com/album/we-dan...

We Dance, by Hochzeitskapellehochzeitskapelle.bandcamp.com 4 track album

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::whispers:: go back to your mp3 library

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‘Tom Verlaine has the most beautiful neck in rock and roll,’ Patti Smith wrote in 1974. ‘Real swan-like.’ He also had a serious book Jones. As a junk shop hound, maximum respect ... www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/ma...

Alex Abramovich | At the Tom Verlaine Book Salewww.lrb.co.uk A meme bounced around Brooklyn last summer: ‘What if we kissed at the Tom Verlaine book sale?’ Verlaine, who formed...

Less than $20K to go before midnight in WFMU’s annual fundraiser. $50 gets you this year's T-shirt, which I can't wait to wear. If you've never listened, you're missing out! If you Iisten but haven’t pledged, what are you waiting for? wfmu.org

It's time for this year's Yo La Tengo request show as part of the WFMU fund-raising marathon. Pledge $100 and get them to play your favorite song on air. Starts now, runs til midnight Jersey City time.

The Frow Show with Jesse Jarnowwfmu.org Audio & playlist from March 12, 2024

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RIP Damo Suzuki, who was Can's amazing vocalist in the early 1970s www.clashmusic.com/news/cans-da...

Can's Damo Suzuki Has Died | News | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviewswww.clashmusic.com Can vocalist Damo Suzuki has passed away. The musician had been diagnosed with colon cancer, and in 2014 was given a 10% chance of survival. Continuing to

Vitamin C (2004 Remastered Version)deezer.page.link Can

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A sad farewell to Damo Suzuki (1950-2024), who between 1970 and 1973 led pioneering German band Can through its unquestionable peak, and pretty much lived on a never-ending world tour since then.

I had no idea Ezra Tawil passed away last month. Just heartbreaking. We organized a reading group for NYC early Americanists in the 00s and spent a lot of time together. I'm so sad.

Ezra Tawil, English professor of substance and style, rememberedwww.rochester.edu The scholar of American literature had a special talent for connecting with colleagues and students alike.

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This is going to be cited in a lot of dissertations, including possibly mine

Paragraph 4 here is a doozy.

Looks like WFMU is hiring a new music director. Not sure abt the why nows and what nexts but I have lots of gratitude for everything Olivia Bradley-Skill has brought to this holy calling.

Music Director – WFMU-FM 91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NYwfmu.org

Never miss a chance to link to Eric Lott on Andy's Mick.

Mick Jagger from the portfolio Mick Jagger, 1975 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1155827/

Sound + Vision: Andy’s Micksoundstudiesblog.com Hello Internet! It's great to be here in cyberspace! Are you ready to rock? Today's dispatch from our Spring Series, Live from the SHC, finds Cornell's Society for the Humanities Fellow Eric Lott�...

I was wondering who was paying for the "Demolish DEI" advertising on the bad site.

Better Call Goebbels

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The Feelies unplug for Hanukkah!

Doom & Gloom From The Tombdoomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com The Feelies - Bowery Ballroom, New York City, December 10, 2023 Let's keep things in the Bowery Ballroom / Hanukkah / VU cover zone for the moment. Which Velvets tune did the Feelies tackle on this...