Elizabeth Cantwell

Okay now that Instagram automatically gave everyone a Meta account … do I need to just deactivate? Is this it?

This, exactly. What is worth spending time and attention on? What would you never offload, even if you could? (Don't answer here. Answer for yourselves! And then act accordingly!)

it’s time for my annual meditation on how gorgeously sad Jason Miller is as Father Karras in The Exorcist, like just psychologically damaging levels of magnetic torment

I really love how unpredictable baseball is. How are there 6 total runs already and we’re not even a full inning in? I want this game to end up with double-digit scores

Friday.

Maybe it’s the pet grief talking, but after teaching Out of the Past I have become convinced that young Robert Mitchum was among the most beautiful men to have walked the earth

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Finished Out of the Past with my students today. What a gorgeous film.

Getting so many years with this beautiful creature was a gift. He was with us in seven residences, for three kids, survived one coyote attack, and watched countless fucked up movies with us on the couch. I am having trouble walking around the house without him following me.

Important hedge stop & local train station decoration

I am dealing with some personal stuff AND parenting three kids so going to see any movies these past few weeks have been hard … and I have never been so mad to not be able to go to the movies! Does this mean … the movies are back? (Even if one of the ones I want to see in a theater is from the 70s?)

sometimes you have to just go read and think about Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar” for the 100th time

how am I supposed to grade when baseball is depressing me

Does anyone else have the sports superstition where if you have the game on but you have to run out for a quick errand or something, you believe you have to LEAVE the game on your TV while you’re out or else you’ll lose? Or is this just my neurosis?

is Pages my new favorite Dodger

that thing where your kid wakes up with a cough and you start writing sub plans in your head

a tip for being in your 40s is that I think everyone should make a friend who is 80, this has happened to me recently and it is somehow the perfect way to gain perspective amid the noise of 40-something life

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

when @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social is out of town all bets on my evening are off. I could go to sleep at 9 pm. I could stay up until 11 pm grading. I could decide to mainline old ER episodes until midnight. It’s chaos over here

Pages!!!!!!!

Jim.

my sexuality is postseason Kiké

4yo has claimed turning on Halloween decorations as his “leadership job” and I really want to know how I can get such a sweet deal because my leadership jobs do not feel as fun

Yes I definitely think it’s worth 90% of my mental energy as a teacher to ponder how to help students understand how to use this very complex and societally important tool

it's been 100 degrees for days now, sun went down, I went outside for 5 minutes, I got three mosquito bites in those 5 minutes, I quit LA

was the joy of my life to write about my queen diane lane in UNFAITHFUL and UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN for @brightwalldarkroom.com. two movies about what it’s like to be a woman in your late 30s, the impulse to tear it all down, and the joy of building it back up instead 🖤

Posting this great @briannaduggan.bsky.social piece that we own on the occasion of seeing the 4K restoration of Wild at Heart in a theater and crying for the whole last scene like any civilized person with half a heart

guys I maybe love Kyle Tucker

Related: can someone please check on the people watching today’s Dodgers game in the seats in full sun and keep them hydrated

Putting up Halloween decorations when it’s 100 degrees outside, congrats America, you’ve achieved the horror of your dreams

September 30 October 1

just got told by a former student currently at an exclusive university that I do “elite” discussion board work and none of his professors have come close so I’m gonna put that in my pocket for a self-doubt day

New today on the site: @ambersparks.bsky.social on John Frankenheimer’s SECONDS

Okay I guess I’m just a Big Sleep poster now (though next week I’ll be moving on to Double Indemnity) but my class is having its final discussion about the book tomorrow & man the second to last paragraph is just so fucking fantastic. Pardon my almost-correct Hamlet annotations.