@andytowne

Associate Professor at Murray State University. One day I hope to make all my tweets and opinions my own.

 Murray, KY
andytownteaches.wordpress.com/
Joined April 2009
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Hey y’all, I’m migrating over to a new place. Follow me at: bsky.app/profile/andytown.bs…
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I wrote about teaching The Odyssey in the wake of Nolan!
Zócalo Public Square@ThePublicSquareSep 28
"From poem to novel, from recitation to film, from Ancient Greece to English, The Odyssey will always change shape." English professor Andrew Black on teaching Homer's poem after Nolan's blockbuster: zps.la/4AziJYD

I’m More Excited Than Ever to Teach The Odyssey | Essay

My Students Saw Nolan’s Blockbuster. Now I Want to Introduce Them to the Darker, Weirder Poem That Inspired It

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I'm grateful to @RebeccaSolnit for sharing my piece on Facebook, a response to the recent Chronicle article. I love my students! andytown.wordpress.com/2026/…
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Status Is DOWN
@statusisdownMay 7
Canvas By Instructure is reportedly down for hundreds of users right now. Are you one of them? #CanvasDown #Canvas_By_InstDown community.designtaxi.com/top…

Is Canvas by Instructure down? [May 7, 2026]

Canvas by Instructure is reportedly down for hundreds of students on May 7, 2026.DownDetector logs show a spike in user reports around 3:52PM Eastern Time.Some Canvas users have also turned to social...

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"Faith" is a fine invention / When Gentlemen can see – / But Microscopes are prudent / In an Emergency.
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first tweet in about three years. only logged in to show how this would fit in a tweet. enjoy!
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"The Professionals" - 1966 #RichardBrooks / "The Wild Bunch" - 1969 #SamPeckinpah
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why hasn't this become a meme?
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Hey #grizz nation. Whatever Jay Huff fandom y’all are initiating, I want onboard!
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Y Tu Muppet También
Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN (2025)@gaelgarciadaily16 Oct 2024
Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal as (and with) Bert & Ernie ‼️‼️‼️
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Graham@GrahamC4715 Oct 2024
marketing people just aren’t working on this level anymore xitter.cf/jtimsuggs/status/18459…
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@jtimsuggs14 Oct 2024
This Episode I tie-in Pizza Hut commercial from 1999 has to be one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen
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Fall Festival Movies Ranked by Metacritic Score (10/13/24) 1. All We Imagine As Light: 93 2. No Other Land: 93 3. Anora: 90 4. Nickel Boys: 90 5. Familiar Touch: 89 6. The Brutalist: 88 7. April: 88 8. To a Land Unknown: 87 9. Hard Truths: 86 10. The Wild Robot: 85
Will Mavity
@mavericksmovies6 Oct 2024
Fall Festival Movies Ranked by Metacritic Score (10/6/24) 1. All We Imagine As Light: 93 2. No Other Land: 91 3. Anora: 90 4. Nickel Boys: 89 5. Familiar Touch: 89 6. The Brutalist: 88 7. April: 88 8. Hard Truths: 87 9. To a Land Unknown: 87 10. The Wild Robot: 85
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I’ve always found the ending of the Princess Bride so moving.
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My contribution to the Donald Sutherland lovefest is THE EAGLE HAS LANDED and EYE OF THE NEEDLE. In the former, a charming rogue doing something pretty bad, in the latter, a psychopath who either falls in love or pretends to. He’s fireicondotgif in both capers
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What would be worse? Sitting for ten minutes listening to Michigan and USC fans talk about the importance of their football traditions, or ten minutes in a room w/ Jason the hockey-masked machete-killer from Friday the 13th? I'd say Jason, but if you upped it to twenty . . .
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Reading Eric Roberts memoir (it's very good!), just an all time fumble right here “You came to my attention” 😭
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You know that old saying, you can't judge a book by its cover? What if it's cover is made of boogers? (Joke I submitted to Nickelodeon in 1988 and am still waiting to hear back about.)
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video game teacher folks: what are some great recent pieces of gaming scholarship? i'm teaching a class on games and lit for the first time in five years, and I've kinda been detached from emerging scholarship. (please r/t!)
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