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michael röbbins
@alienvsrobbins
author of Walkman (Penguin) and other books; associate professor of English
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Free Palestine
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South Detroit
Joined March 2012
- i got vaccinated in an abandoned kmart. my friend is getting her shot in a minor league baseball stadium ("home of the long island ducks"). another friend in dodger stadium. there's a critical-geography essay in here somewhere, a hinterland of medicalized american space
- Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, blowing up the minds of liberals
- whose idea was it for children in gym class to floof up a parachute then sit under it as it deflates? i don't know what kids are supposed to get out of it, but i remember it fondly as a brief intrusion of otherworldliness into the tedious school day, transforming light & sound
- Replying to @alienvsrobbinssome vax sites mentioned in the replies: charlotte russe, disneyland, shuttered best buy, "an old speedway," football stadium, fairgrounds, "extremely ugly pub," megachurch, shopping mall
- Replying to @alienvsrobbinsi can’t like every reply but read thru the thread, it’s amazing
- send the fucking vaccines to India for fuck's sake
- I emailed my student to say she submitted her paper incorrectly & she wrote back, "Sorry sometimes I don’t read the whole assignment I just trust my heart instead"
- In Xanadu did Newton-John A stately roller rink decree
- this book is great if only for Jameson saying things like “I forgot to go over why Barthes thinks language is fascist” & “I’m the one who told Umberto Eco this story”
- I filled this out as a joke, figuring people would pick the usual Pulitzer winners—so I voted for myself &, like, Mike Davis, Fred Moten. but here we are
- Well, the postal service is a paper tiger. Anthony & I discovered by accident that you could use the decorative adhesive from a roll of stamps as a stamp & the letter would go thru. So we decided to see how ridiculous we could get. Finally I said, "Fuck it, try a banana sticker"
