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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I mostly keep my music activities on the DL in academic world but I’m about to become a lot more insufferably self-promotional about it, because I won the famous songwriter’s open mic contest at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur and am headed to the big Shootout final event in November.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Yes, you guessed it. It's all about pyramids."

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If anyone left these one of these items at the Commune Movement Conference at Selene Community (Ffarmers, Wales), 5-7 September 1969, get in touch.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Reviewing my notes from a lecture I went to in spring 2010

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Downtown Milwaukee, February 1999

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Café el speta, Vienna, 30.05.2026

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It’s written up in Der Falter so it must be important

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I don’t think I’d “use” Luhmann in a pure form at this point, but I do think adapting his way of thinking is a good thought experiment, because whatever your object is, you need to develop a system-specific set of concepts rather than importing ones from outside.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Working on a flawless empirical & historical refutation of Timothy Morton’s remarks on Pink Floyd

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

On April 16, for my senior seminar on German songwriting, I organized a night of songs with students where they sang, rapped and recited songs & poems, I played guitar & sang a bit, & a colleague sang the final song. The feedback I’ve gotten from students has been positive unlike anything I’ve seen.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I can’t quite believe this is happening, but it is:

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I love the German title of Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (2000), which presumes that audiences don't know what chocolate is: "Chocolat – Ein kleiner Biss genügt"

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Pliny the Elder: now this is what I call writing

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

“Sein äußeres Leben bestand in einer Reihe von Unfällen, die großentheils hervorgingen aus ungezügelten Leidenschaften.“

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Its interesting that in the late 90s there was a market for reprints of the most obscure and convoluted books by Jack Kerouac—Schwartz’s in Milwaukee would stock them all—and they’ve mostly gone out of print since then, titles like Satori in Paris or Doctor Sax.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Musical and literary amnesia: every one of these genres has medieval roots and was widespread in the early modern era, but there is a tendency in literary studies to credit their invention to Bürger and Goethe and leave it at that.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Altamont 1969: descended into violence Waldeck 1969: descended into discussion

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It just does not get any better than this

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

R.I.P. Béla Tarr. In 2011, I ran into him wandering outside, wearing a black shirt in the blinding sunlight on Hollywood Boulevard, moments before the Turin Horse screened at AFI Fest.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Sociopath who edits an entire book manuscript using the Del and Ins keys

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Oh wow I have GOT to read this one

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

2 hour big budget “In the Penal Colony” adaptation with “Sloop John B” needle drop when the credits roll

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

When can we get fully AI-generated Google Maps that gives us slightly different street layouts each time?

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

In the next four years we will see the emergence of premium subscription-based “human GPT”, a personal assistant who will text you back at all hours of the day and pretend to have snappy answers for anything you ask

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I am hereby copywriting the novel/story/song title “God Will Never Notice”

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

My band’s new EP is out on vinyl now flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Interesting/encouraging to see local candidates connecting (a) the surge of energy prices for consumers to (b) the unregulated data center boom, (c) the environmental threat it poses and (d) government divestment from renewable energy

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Getting burned out on “literature as utopia,” “literature as a way of imagining things being otherwise,” going back to “literature with really really good visual descriptions”

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Lol we have the #1 trending song on Amazing Radio UK

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Happy to see music I’ve made get played here and there on internet & FM radio this past month, so here it all is again: lnk.to/underthehammer paulbuchholz.bandcamp.com

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Song I recorded in London this summer is getting repeat play on the radio in the UK, starts at about 1:49:00 www.mixcloud.com/brian-player...

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Acoustic Cafe Radio Show 16th September 2025 Kingsmith

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764) #Wales #Literature #English #language

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.

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Flashlight Faces @flashlightfaces.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Preorder here: shop.echobase.com/products/fla...

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

George Eliot writing the stone-cold coolest first paragraph of a novel I’ve read

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

In Cologne in summer 2001 I went to a cafe west of the Altstadt that had white walls covered in large pen-writing. There was counter seating in the center where I sat down for breakfast and on the menu they had funny breakfasts like the “Stadt-Frühstück“ which was I believe a coffee and an aspirin.

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Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Guy Debord might seem like a chill dude, but miss the deadline on your psychogeographic study of Venice and you are OUT of the Situationist International.

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