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Happy news of an accepted publication!
Four days done of a weeklong departmental event. Whew.
Floods in the morning. But clear roads on the way home!
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Laurel Stvan
@LingLass@hcommons.social
hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Professor, linguist, bookworm, geek.
She/her.
(Just migrated over from vmst.io. Hello from the new place!)
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Joined June 21, 2026
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oak, glass-fronted bookcases curving around the open, second story of a library.
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short-haired white woman in a blue shirt, wearing glasses, seated in a passenger train.
With one more round of editing, they’d have a decent 50 minute TV episode. But, no. Still, a good time was had by all the readers of the feed. Thanks, @Taweret@timeloop.cafe, @Cherizilla@mastodon.social and @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus for the #Monsterdon camaraderie.
Keep watching this time! #Monsterdon
It’s an hour and half till tonight’s #Monsterdon screening: Journey to the Center of Time (1967). AKA Time Warp. Click it on the hour for free on Tubi and live toot along with us!
Bowing out before the second feature. That jellyfish film was awkward in so many ways. Jeepers!. Still, thanks @Taweret@timeloop.cafe, @Cherizilla@mastodon.social, @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus, and @LuciaG@wandering.shop for inviting us to the messy beach party #Monsterdon
“We have no laser weapon” “You will have” #Monsterdon
[dramatic pause] Looking into the future! #Monsterdon
Red stripe club! #Monsterdon
“I delivered most of you”, though I’m the same age as you #Monsterdon
Limping man leaning on his gun barrel is not fodder at all 🙄 #Monsterdon
God I love this cast #Monsterdon
I so want him to be the Final Boy #Monsterdon
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Possibly not every year. We're getting one in my household, but it's to replace an iPhone 8.
This kid’s gonna be in therapy for 100 years #Monsterdon
Why are they listening to the guy who made all the bad decisions? #Monsterdon
Little ones, big ones. Whatever, #Monsterdon
Her second bad move of the night. #Monsterdon
That goo glows under a black light, right? #Monsterdon
Still craving to see Giant From the Unknown (1958), so I’m going to have to watch it without the #Monsterdon crowd. Come on--a giant 500-year-old Spanish conquistador! Will report back, but here’s a taste of what you’ve abandoned: “With a big, booming and dramatic score by Albert Glasser, superb acting, and a menacing villain, Giant From the Unknown is a solid entry in the sci-fi and horror monster movies of yesteryear.” https://www.reddit.com/r/HorrorReviewed/comments/kul6hr/giant_from_the_unknown_1958_scifimonster/
He does have some science going on #Monsterdon
Enough is never enough #Monsterdon
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Followed a favorite jazz DJ from SiriusXM to KJazz, a California radio station. And from that have discovered a whole set of new hosts and great shows.
Pizza in the Breville oven. With kalamata olives and mushrooms. 👨🍳
Book club coming up this week, so I’m catching up on the selection, a cozy fantasy focused on a jam shop (The Spell Shop, by Sarah Beth Durst.)
Half an hour to the start of the October Vincent Price binge on #Monsterdon. Tonight will be House on Haunted Hill (1959). Queue it up on Tubi and join in!
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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com This is a really interesting examination of the different goals of writing workshop participants. I benefited from a creative writing MA, though focused on poetry rather than fiction. (Also, Kevin Baconly, I believe at that same school I took classes from Rebecca Makkai’s father, linguist Adam Makkai.)
You guys, let him go! #Monsterdon
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(Monday holiday edition)
a morning walk – outside! Cats, dog walkers, birds, flowers
a third load of laundry done
watching the funny, dark, and regionally accented How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
#Monsterdon starts in an hour and half, tonight viewing Night of the Comet (1984). An anniversary screening of the events depicted and so very 80s! But since I’ve seen it twice before, I’m going to bow out tonight and check out some Raumpatrouille Orion. See you next week, movie fans.
Ah. Classic. The best film we’ve seen in months. Thanks, @Taweret@timeloop.cafe, @Cherizilla@mastodon.social, @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus and @LuciaG@wandering.shop@hcommons.social for a wonderful start to Spooky Month #Monsterdon
Yikes! Prominently highlighted horn! #Monsterdon
The prison hall #Monsterdon
Hm, slow refreshing of my instance tonight, so my #Monsterdon toots might arrive sluggishly. But I’m excited about viewing tonight’s screening: The Dunwich Horror (1970). Queue it up and join us in 15 minutes!
I found the answer. And the answer is crazy. #Monsterdon
“Would you slal like to see one of those heads?” #Monsterdon
Bongo escape music! #Monsterdon
Ah, it is that Lyle Waggoner! #Monsterdon
She’s very Winona Rydery. #Monsterdon
It’s a floor wax 😄 #Monsterdon
In one hour the #Monsterdon screening will be Sting of Death (1966). That’s sting like jelly fish—students on spring break and a murderous jellyfish mutant! Start the film on Tubi at the top of the hour and ioin in the fun!
Jellyfish theme! #Monsterdon
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Had students competing today to counter-interpret presupposition examples. I’ve used the pair of slides before, but never to such fervor. A really satisfying class session.
Rain. For the first time in over 60 days. The weather may finally be shifting into fall here.
Time to sit and think after a day of endless work email. Priceless.
#Monsterdon “a glimpe of the true meaning of time”
Like he couldn’t just take two steps down. #Monsterdon
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@Violinknitter@wandering.shop She honestly looked like Hayden Panettiere. But that's creepy, too, now. #Monsterdon
Your grampa’s dead—but what about the birds? #Monsterdon