BRING BACK THE ETCHED GLASS BATMAN FOREVER MUGS OR WE RIOT

That’s a strong relationship. Keep working at it!

Man I wish Annihilation had taken off. It was something special AND looked so much better than every single Marvel/Star Wars movie (and more expensive, which was impressive for it’s smaller budget). It was weird watching it and realizing a movie like this would probably never get made again.

People’s heroes can’t be flawed anymore. They have to be all good or they’re all bad. I love Ali, both in and out of the ring, but he did some shitty things. some he learned from and some he didn’t. It just means he’s human. 

AVClub, can we please tone down on this cheap, pearl clutching “woke” takes? This is tiring.

Never Forget

He has nothing to own up to.  

I am actually very curious how someone in Ansari’s position could really own up or say something that would really appease us. It just seems like someone in this position is relatively doomed (rightfully or wrongfully—I’m not making a judgement on that): anything he said would probably have not been enough. And that’s…

“Arnold Schwarzenegger made plenty of shit films too, and he is clearly the model Johnson is patterning his career after.”

Well, not just Ivies...places like U Chicago will always be just as competitive as Harvard on the job market, at least in the Humanities. I know plenty of incredibly smart people who went to graduate school at Ivies and also didn’t get jobs—but they did tend to get the post-docs and Visiting Assistant Professorships…

The blog didn’t even mention it, but you spotted one of the core issues here: “the market is saturated with Ph.D’s.” Yes, this is exactly right. Far, far too many people pursue a doctorate (especially in a humanities field) with a plan to teach. The extraordinarily excess labor pool hurts everyone, because colleges…

♫ Caaaaaaaaan you feeeel the awful CGI toniiiiiiite ♫ 

Or, from highly ranked R1 schools. That’s certainly true for the sciences and social sciences.

I got a tenure-track job in Maine. I feel like a lottery winner, TBH. We have a union, too.

You can expand this a bit from the Ivies to AAU universities. If you are going to get a PhD, it has to be from an AAU university, otherwise it is worthless. If you get your PhD from Texas, you can find a tenured position eventually. If you get you PhD from Texas State-San Marcos (a notorious PhD mill), you won’t even…

My plan was to take a couple years and work between MS and PhD. I’d survey the Chronicle ads while working and I saw maybe two PhD positions in my field available in two years...I ended up getting a JD instead after a few years. I can’t say I’m happier here than I would be teaching, but I can pay my mortgage and eat.

I had a professor with a brother who had a PhD from Harvard in English lit & ended up going to law school because he couldn’t find a job in academia. This was in 1998. Granted, he could've been a dolt, but this has been a problem for years now. 

I’m at a big state school and seeing the parade of disappointed PhD’s cycle back into my office at Career Services is so depressing. They get sold a bill of goods by people (most often Boomers) who have done really well with the current system. I’m sure they mean well when they are encouraging bright young people to…

This was basically my experience. In the last year of my PhD program I started to see the writing on the wall — friends who had graduated several years before me and were bouncing around with adjunct positions, and the fact that I was applying for tenure-track positions with 250 other people for a single position,…