Sean Grass

@gongdonkey.bsky.social

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Professor, Dickensian, reader, gardener, servant of cats. Opinions expressed here are solely my own and invariably correct.

Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 09:59 UTC

Make a band bready: Deathciabatta for Cutie Bread Zeppelin Scone Temple Pilots

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:34 UTC

My wife and I both now out of our offices. Off to U Florida. Wish us luck!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

Slightly less horrifying if they could at least teach it as fiction or mythology.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

Eventually the college students just teach the high school students … who are, also, the college students. Model of efficiency.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Sounds like you have GE *well* covered then!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 11:41 UTC

Not if you follow up with dinner at 1:30.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

I’m always partial to The Mill on the Floss… Shorter than MM, but by no means short.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Not quite Fildes’s “The Empty Chair,” but melancholy enough for me. Over and out, RIT. Thank you.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

Add food, ruin film Star Trek III: The Search for Speck

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 13:13 UTC

Add food, ruin film Everything Bagel Everywhere All at Once

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 11:52 UTC

The French Onion Soup Connection

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 10:52 UTC

Echo agrees.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

Thanks, Rachel! I’m excited. We’ll have to catch up at one of these conferences someday. I’m not expecting to make NAVSA in the fall, but I’ll be at MLA.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

Oh yeah. Murray and Hobhouse. Grim story.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

Well, as of today I can finally, formally announce that this fall I’ll be joining the Department of English at the University of Florida. I so appreciate my colleagues and students at RIT. But I’m excited about this change!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Whew. Just finished my first post-surgery run. Two miles. Just a little walking here and there. After five weeks off, I’ll take it.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 10:05 UTC

Indeed! Hope all is well with you in Nashville. Things in NY a little chaotic just now, for reasons I hope to be able to announce very soon… 😉

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 10:03 UTC

Oh lord that sounds like fun.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 09:29 UTC

Squirtguns ‘n’ Roses

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 11:03 UTC

Oh yes! I give a short quiz on Oliver Twist where I tell students to draw what happens to Bill Sikes at the end. Amazing and often hilarious choices.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 23:57 UTC

Hey, Rachel! Long time no see!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

Lard Times #makeabookgreasy

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 10:27 UTC

I’m so sorry for you. It’s very, very hard and sad.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 00:15 UTC

I’m sorry for your loss. I just lost my little buddy in April. Miss him every day.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

Definitely a cutie. He certainly keeps the 12yo cat on his toes…

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 23:37 UTC

Breaking in the new guy…

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

Live shot of Reader #2. Doesn’t seem to like my conference paper so far, but he’s cuter than I expected.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:51 UTC

My contribution to the discourse

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Christy, Butlerian Jihadist @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 22:06 UTC

Thank god Trump can’t read. He’d be upset.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 26, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

The brilliancy of this bearded iris is just amazing to me.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 25, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

Echo, celebrating just his 12th #Caturday.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 23, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

Hard agree. The three days I spend every summer at the Dickens Symposium is the most delightful part of my professional life.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 22, 2024 at 20:03 UTC

Iris week in the frozen tundras of MN and western NY, at least! Ha!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 22, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

Those are both SO pretty!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 22, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

A retired (now deceased) colleague of mine used to grow irises competitively and gave me several. I love that one. And this:

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social
[ View ] May 21, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

"Dear Editor, I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole."

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 21, 2024 at 09:46 UTC

Here’s one in the morning sun.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

Starring The Great Gonzo as Jesus.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

I would love to start cooking dinner but I obviously cannot move.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 17, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

The Forbidden Pool: quiet, dark, rustic, and the freshest seafood you’ve ever eaten.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 16, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Multiple exciting post-surgery milestones today: ✅ Lowe’s ✅ Wegman’s ✅ Campus office ✅ Sneezed without feeling like I might blow my entrails through my abdominal wall Good stuff!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 15, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

Woohoo! Proofs dropped. Such great authors in here. Such a pleasure to edit. Looking forward to this volume being a thing in the world!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 13, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

It’s also a battlefield. And it stinks.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

Surgery recovery buddies. Feel better already.

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 09, 2024 at 19:02 UTC

You rock!

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 09, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

I thought for sure something “key lime” would come from a US brewery! But no. And now I realize it’s not likely I’ll taste it anytime soon! 😢

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 09, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

Sounds potentially very yummy…

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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social
[ View ] May 09, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

Hahahahahaha. Rookie!

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 13:09 UTC

Equal parts excited and terrified to dig into these book proofs…still hard to believe that The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science comes out September 24!

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