Teaching southern studies in Alabama, by way of Baltimore, GA, and Mississippi. Walking & reading my way through the South.

Birmingham, AL
Joined August 2019
Nothing zaps you back into reality from a beach trip like Sunday night grading. Good god man.
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I feel born again when I return to the sea. – at Gulf Shores, AL
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Shapes in the landscape.
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Ophelia providing some hound texture and smell to my freshly sun-dried linen
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Evangeline has seized control of my socks and T-shirts
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My parents watch SEC games through their hound.
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Applied topical medication to two irate black cats a couple weeks out from Halloween. Prayers appreciated.
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Man with an immaculate skullet ahead of me in line at the Pig just bought $1500 worth of wine. I love you, Birmingham.
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Walker Evans, "Bud Fields' Garden, Hale County, Alabama." August, 1936.
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Jack Carey retweeted
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No better "click to confirm" than when you're booking a New Orleans trip.
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"I love the bench that overlooks the baseball field that overlooks the house that looks like 'Church, Sprott, Alabama, 1977'" What a gorgeous way to start a Monday.
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Behind the goldenrod veil.
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Highly recommend biscuits and gravy and Bloody Marys to melt away your most dreadful Sunday afternoon tasks.
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Inspiring how two cats & a hound can collaborate to break into the office you're zooming in so they can loudly fight for the duration of the zoom.
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Dash studies the shapes of his new landscape.
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I love teaching in the Deep South because you have colleagues you can do postmoderns with who will say things like, "as my mother would say, 'I don't mean this ugly...'"
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Anna Ash's FLOODLIGHTS has just been reissued , and this album is so fucking good.
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Ophelia takes my mother to the King's Spring.
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The bourbon is a hundred proof.
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