this is fun little excerpt (specifically me apologizing at the end) from my book Millennials Talking Media (2021, p. 57)

It was very important for me to include a "cat" category in my coding schema for millennial media references in conversation. Now while I'm writing a whole section of a chapter on using singing to playfully mock pets, this is coming in handy again

Conversational "six seven" reference

wanna see the oldest song in my Gen Z conversational singing data set? I present to you a remixed version of Lydia Maria Child's 1844 "Over the river and through the woods", sung as "Olivia" was taking off a dress that was previously deemed a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen

now that I've written a piece on how cringe humor is received conversation, I'm just seeing it everywhere. It's always laughter + something like a groan or 'oh my god' or 'no'

As seen at Wegmans

Got my author’s copy in the mail 😏

how is your publication history going?

personally I’ve been loving this book (60% of the way through it). it’s the perfect blend of art, history, and politics (the Paris commune, Berthe Morisot, hot air balloons, need I say more??)

Sometimes homemade pizza doesn’t come out, the way you’d hoped

love this, from Milani 2018 intro to his edited volume Queering Language Gender and Sexuality, p. 13. and no, we're not abandoning identity 🙃 but being critical of it and associated labels is always a good thing to my mind

omg little interaction between Tannen (one of my dissertation committee members) & Buttny 1998 (my retired SU colleague) #TeamConstructedDialogue

I am very glad to be co-authoring the first academic treatment of TikToker XenonTheFox's Five Nights at Freddy's stitches

I found this to be a fascinating little article in this weekend’s Financial Times Life & Arts section, on the soft power behind video games

I have expired

Oh, I had a really nice birthday

I am very excited to finally have a venue in which to present and label a concept I have observed for a very long time in (media) referencing in conversation: prosodic intertextuality

Here is our latest abstract

Hi everyone, get your university libraries to buy this book! Then you can check out my chapter on “Resisting Cringe(Worthy) Linguistic Film Stereotypes in Everyday Talk” for free, through your library, along with all the other great chapters on cringe humor!

I find this…a little creepy and weird (the mention of how many “females” this guy has supervised)

Deborah Tannen describes here exactly what I’m doing right now with our queering media references paper, it’s all written but I’m trying to distill & refine the main ideas while still adding in some literature that I think is helping (in the book Professional Development in Applied Linguistics)

this is a good balanced approach to this issue, from Harvey 2002 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

this does not bode well

meanwhile, I got to torture myself by re-transcribing this student conversation today for my project on singing in conversation

Went to a wonderful talk by my friend and SU colleague Junko Takeda today. I wish more academic events/talks were like this one!

I thought this was so interesting! I've definitely noticed this as a Syracuse transplant--people around here will refer to New York City as just "New York" which as King says, seems to minimize the distinction between here and there and reduce the ideological distance

When @ricksteves.bsky.social goes to Rome, he gets a thrill from walking on the same roads at the Romans. When I go to Rome, I get a thrill from walking on the same roads as Rick Steves

Grazie, Italia

currently obsessed with I, Claudius (1976)