Why not to use Google+:

It is Facebook.

Of all the Ryan Gosling Tumblrs (shout-out to medieval history), Feminist Ryan Gosling is still the funniest and best.

Look, I just have to put this out there after hearing this song piped into a few too many establishments this weekend. Adele's single "Someone Like You" is the worst. torch. song. ever.



Oh, it's pretty well constructed as a song. But the total abjection expressed in the pleading, self-abasing lyrics is just embarrassing. Come on, lyric I, have a little self-respect! Be less passive-aggressive! And get yourself a couple of backup singers going "sha-la-la" in the background! Contrast this with Amy Winehouse's textured, grown-up treatment of the same:



So much better. Public spaces of Atlanta, you are welcome to play Amy Winehouse as much as you like.

And now, back to Very Important Research.

I'm just going to throw this out there for no good reason. It bugs me that the whole entire internet seems not to have identified the brilliant quotation at the end of Janelle Monáe's track "Wondaland." One dude even thinks it's from the Randall Thompson "Alleluia." Absurd. It is obviously a variation on the refrain from "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones." Come on, internets; I expect better.

This has been a PSA.

1. If you find yourself declaring, "mine is the only subfield in which creative, interesting work is taking place, and anyone who is not interested in my subfield is stupid and bound for obsolescence," you might want to stop and reflect.

2. If it is a frequent refrain in your subfield that the aforementioned subfield is the only one in which creative, interesting work is taking place, and that anyone who is not interested in that subfield is stupid and bound for obsolescence, you might want to stop and reflect.

This has been a PSA.

This is a redacted version of a rant I didn't post yesterday.

In poetry in English, pyrrhics are not a real thing.



This has been a PSA.

Chernin Mentorship Program

PSA: If anyone reading this is a UC Berkeley English major or is thinking about becoming an English major, I highly recommend that you apply to the English department's Chernin Mentorship Program. You'll likely hear this notice elsewhere too, but if you don't and you're interested in the program, feel free to get in touch with me about it.

The difference between "What?" and "What."

"What?" is a question.

"What." means no.