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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wanted to play football for the coach! (A cousin of Frank Ocean’s “Forrest Gump”?)

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hopping back on here to say my new book is finally out! Tell your university librarian to buy a copy, please!

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ugh I spell like an American now, apparently

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sarah I KNEW you would have good recs, thanks so much

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Academic friends: favorite books in C20/21 American lit, lit theory, race and lit, or related areas, published in the past few years? I have some use-or-lose startup funds that need spending by the end of the month

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Making a rare and cynical excursion to the barren plains of Bluesky to ask academic friends to ask their librarians to consider pre-ordering my (excellent, imo) new book, out in June! cambridge.org/ag/universitypress/subjects/literature/american-literature/los-angeles-literary-history

cambridge.org

Los Angeles | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

For months on end I forget this place exists. I'm guessing it doesn't feel like Twitter From Five to Eight Years Ago yet?

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Everything about the music business in the late sixties sounds completely fake

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

No disrespect to Ira Gershwin but rhyming brunch with lunch is hack. You can't just go rhyming a portmanteau with one of the two words it's derived from.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“You know, these plans are quite similar to the ones they have at the Reform conference”

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Just give me a giant flashing neon GONE FISHING sign

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

One of the things I find hardest about severe episodes of mental ill-health is the number of people you have to lie to about why you’re canceling on them/late in doing something/forgetting to reply to messages/not doing your best work Exhausting!

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In Sonic 3 (2024), End of the Line by the Traveling Wilburys (1988) is used as diegetic music in a flashback to 50 years before the present-day events of the movie. All the more galling given that a period-appropriate pop song (The Beach Boys’ Wouldn’t It Be Nice) is used elsewhere in the movie.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent place?”

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I don’t even know why I still had an account on that exploitative and largely useless platform but as of today I don’t anymore.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Pete Mandelson? The Hartlepool MP?

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I struggle to keep track of all those Leigh Francis characters

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Imagine how frustrating it must've been to find that "giantpaedo" sans numeral was already taken

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

True admiration for Bruce Springsteen, the most “claims to be 5‘10” on Hinge but is 5’7” IRL“ guy in rock, making a tactical decision decades ago to flank himself with actual hobbits Steve van Zandt and Nils Lofgren

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Arthur Miller died less than 7 weeks after the release of Meet the Fockers and we can't rule out the possibility that the two events were linked

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

In a month’s time we get a new Pynchon novel and I just think that’s neat

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A wonderful former student of mine is struggling with medical bills. While access to healthcare without fear of financial hardship shouldn’t be contingent on being a good or talented person, Matthew is both. If you can spare anything, I know it will be deeply appreciated. gofund.me/46c876c0

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Donate to Matthew Washington's Medical Bill, organized by Matthew Washington

Hey there everyone. My name is Matthew Washington. I am a recent graduate of … Matthew Washington needs your support for Matthew Washington's Medical Bill

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Academic request: do I know anyone, or do you know anyone, who has access to the journal African Identities?

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I don’t speak to my father any more but alas I can never disown his description of TNG as “social workers in space” (he was a social worker)

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Profound symbol of national decline

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

PSA: due to [reasons] I'm exploring changing my surname to my mother's maiden name, and I'm choosing Bluesky as a consequence-free place to test out how it feels. Given my career choice, this is the only way I'm ever going to obtain Riches.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

[Youth Pastor turning to the Book of Genesis] “let me tell you about the original content creator”

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Menswear ads on instagram are either for $49 suits from a sketchy dropshipping operation called either Spvrluocyj or Bloodlust and Hinterland Supply Co., or they’re for high-waist trousers that cost five million dollars

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

They should just make one cleanser and one moisturizer and one sunscreen that are good.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

ill-advisedly ambiguous marketing copy from Spirit, here

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I last saw him in London at the Roundhouse in 2016, standing ticket, and I swear it was no more than 30-35 quid. Springsteen in the same year (at Wembley, with a wristband for the pit at no extra cost for turning up early) wasn't that much more.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Please, I have my beloved [checks notes] Morrisville Raptors www.morrisvillenc.gov/recreation/p...

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Wish they would build one of the UK's biggest stadiums in Boone, North Carolina. Somebody should try that.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I know some people who go to a lot of Big Concerts (hi @jorisbinned.bsky.social) and I simply do not know how they can do it. Will there be some kind of reset when the boomer disposable income audience starts dying off, or am I going to be paying 900 Space Bucks to see Waxahatchee in 2045?

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

An obvious point, made many times before, but surely concert ticket prices for established/legacy acts are unsustainable? I love live music, I have a decent salary, but I am simply not paying $140+ (for a crap seat), plus travel and accommodation for Elvis Costello or David Byrne.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Didn't expect to feel such joy and relief that, after 20 years of dross, pointless covers, and screeds about how Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and Bill Gates are trying to stop him touring, Van Morrison has made a mostly good album and returned to songs about remembering place names in Belfast.

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The year is 1955 and I am profoundly misunderstanding Bill Haley and His Comets

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It’s good to at least lay my “easier to change planes in the US when making a two-leg transatlantic journey so I don’t have to do EU immigration on a tight turnaround” theory to rest

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The man never drank a $17 IPA in his life

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Please don’t remind me of the time Virgin changed my flight so I suddenly had to transfer from Newark to JFK. It would’ve been less stressful to transfer from Newark Northgate

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

At least it was over quickly for the actual JFK

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

JFK is a scam to make you so flustered, frustrated and despairing after the three hours of waiting in lines, the missed flight, the bag recheck, the patdown, the being demeaned by 8-10 different staff members, that you’ll gratefully spend $53 on a burrito and a beer to make yourself feel better

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Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

[Henry II joins the Beastie Boys] His strong BELIEFS My cause of GRIEF Rid me of this turbulent PRIEST

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