Dominic Pettman

"Families and Other Gross Domestic Products."

"Excuse the length of this letter," wrote a Frenchman or Frenchwoman of that great eighteenth century of theirs, "but I have had no time to make it shorter."

As an academic, 90% of work emails received from colleagues essentially boil down to: 1) do more 2) do better 3) do it quicker

I just woke from a dream in which a Spanish waiter accused me of being, "a fool and a wombat."

"The Fraggle Rock Doctrine: Ludic Immediacy and the Eternal Deferral of Worry"

The human race will be followed by the post-human interview, analysis, and press conference.

“Facebook Denies That It Shared User Data with Eye of Sauron.”

The Wilhelm scream will outlast humanity.

G.L.A.D. (Going on Long Admin Detox)

LOVE SHACK has been streamed on Spotify three times as much as ROCK LOBSTER. This hurts my heart a little.

Disclosure - sexual harassment Basic Instinct - women, feminism Fatal Attraction - libido unleashed Black Rain - the ascendant East Wall Street - birth pangs of neoliberalism, rampant capitalism The China Syndrome - nuclear energy, big government

The syllabus might look something like this: Behind the Candelabra - spectacular homosexuality Traffic - the war on drugs, race Wonderboys - academia The Game - social simulacra, white privilege, paranoia Falling Down - immigration, nostalgia, patriotism

This is a course I've been meaning to teach for nearly twenty years. Now the students don't know who he is, it may just be the time to actually do it.

"Zeitguy: Moral Panics and the Decline of the American Empire Through the Eyes of Michael Douglas"

A bit like a baker's dozen, perhaps.

Is a shit-ton somehow different to a regular ton?

If yellow overalls could make music, they would sound just like Supertramp.