@alienvsrobbins

author of Walkman (Penguin) and other books; associate professor of English Free Palestine Rock chalk https://xitter.cf/t.co/nSfHcVdjiu…

 South Detroit
Joined March 2012
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gyre wide af
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When I was I college I walked into a parking meter because I was reading while walking, & these girls laughed at me. But today I tripped over a rock & looked around to see if I had embarrassed myself, but everyone was looking at their phone. Progress.
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one of the few pleasures of middle age is learning that music you dismissed in youth as lame is actually pretty great
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you will never make me like the Smiths though
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btw this Boris album is great too
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wish I were in Allen Fieldhouse right now
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not quite three years ago, with my dad
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what i do when i should be writing something else
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michael röbbins retweeted
Kansas Men’s Basketball
@KUHoopsOct 23
Some things are worth reminding people of.
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Select all images with Burning Man heatstroke victims. Select all images with Courtney Love's mascara. Select all images with people you have met in dreams. Select all images with the sense of futility that comes from doing anything at all in a darkening world
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verify you're human, yeah right
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They could just take you up yonder, honey You're already wild and blue RIP John Anderson, whom even the Mekons loved youtube.com/watch?v=OGRBu-27…

Wild and Blue

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the Elizabeth Holmes movie is just the latest in a string of cultural detritus that try to find something interesting to say about these vacuous grifters, but they're "only capital personified," as Marx wrote; their souls "are the souls of capital"
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This textual note to Donne’s “The Prohibition” is a little avant-garde prose poem, shades of Gertrude Stein
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coming late to Zupančič‘s Disavowal but this is the concept I was (ahem) lacking when I wrote this
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gonna start responding to climate deniers with "yr beliefs are wrong but formally indistinguishable from mainstream liberal rationality"
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phone autocorrected Deftones to Deft Ones. feels like I unlocked an achievement
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michael röbbins retweeted
michael röbbins@alienvsrobbinsOct 12
Márgarét, áre you securing the bag Over Goldengrove unleaving?
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Márgarét, áre you securing the bag Over Goldengrove unleaving?
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fine
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michael röbbins retweeted
Book Post@BookPostUSAOct 9
Michael Robbins reflects on poems about our current moment in history. It's both beautiful and tragic, and we're here for it! books.substack.com/p/review-…
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