Music obsessive. Record shop frequenter. Occasional self-elected gatekeeper. Clash Magazine’s vinyl nerd. @justplayed on Twitter, @justplayedvinyl on Threads &

Professor of English, Montclair State University I write about things Victorian with teaching sidelines in the Bible and crime fiction. Movie fan. Thelma Ritter

Twin Peaks, Long Covid, tarot, bipolar, Buffy, wrestling, cats (sometimes wrestling cats). I correct people for money.

Two daughters, two dogs, two cats, I read a lot.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic. Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life i

New album “THE ONE TRUE PRINCE OF WALES (in exile after abdication)” out now on Hurrah Musica "Knowingly ridiculous, but tightly executed" https://linktr.ee/