Michael Denman

Full-time Fantasizer, Part-time Academicer

[Michael Denman @MikeDHistorian]

@samueljredman

[Popular Culture Studies Journal @ThePCSJ]

If you missed out on the #PopularCultureDialogue discussing Ritual and Tradition, you can watch the entire insightful conversation at https://t.co/zKMmoOal3l

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@samueljredman Think really, really hard about why you want to be in grad school. Was just having this discussion with some students last week.

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So…how about Demi Lovato ripping off Hole?

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@danroyles I use the music video (and song itself) for “Song of the South” by Alabama (1988) as an example of social remembrance compared to the actual history of the Depression Era South.

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@professor_jedi Exec Admin: “If YoU lOvE tEaChInG wHy Do YoU cArE hOw MuCh It PaYs????”

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@professor_jedi Some people were theorizing that it was specifically created for someone who already had some pre-existing position and this was just like a paperwork hoops kind of thing. Which I hope is true because, otherwise, we’re all screwed.

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Just out here tryna put the “human” back in Humanities.

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@DrakeandDice I’m feelin’ those fantasy daydreams.

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@DrakeandDice “High fantasy” really just makes me think in imagery. Like Pre-Raphaelite art e.g. “The Lady of Shalott” or “The Death of King Arthur.” Then also the works of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo.

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Got myself onto our faculty senate as one of the two contingent faculty senators. It’s gonna be a wild semester.

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@professor_jedi Definitely a wasted opportunity of a show.

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Welcome to competitive ice skating…

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These students got me dead. Special shout out to the one who called Otto von Bismarck a “Chad.”

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@professor_jedi 👏👏👏

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@DrakeandDice Green lit. Netflix will give us 3 seasons up front.

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First day back in a classroom since March 2020. Feeling totally drained.

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@DrakeandDice I see your documentary style collapse and raise you Werner Herzog style voice-over. “Like a pleading whisper from the past, the paintings upon the walls beg us to acknowledge that which we can never fathom.”

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@DrakeandDice Honestly, I was just hoping the apocalypse would be more interesting. I blame Hollywood.