Jon Nichols

@jon276.bsky.social

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Author of “Requiem for a College.” Husband, dog dad, English and rhetoric professor, writer, advocate. University of Berwyn.

Photo of Chicago today engulfed by smoke from Canadian fires.
“The Man in the Clock” by David G. Cookson.
Happy Birthday to William Shatner!
Tauntaun on the planet Hoth.
“More Than Words” by John Warner.
A tech bro claims inspiration from science fiction novels he misread that warn about unbridled technology.
Fog.
Milk, cookies, shoes and ammo mags left out for John McClane.
Spock’s death at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Batman saying “I’m not really a people person.”
Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin says “When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”
Picture of Gregor Samsa as an insect in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” speculating it would be worse to be an insect waking up one morning to find you’re now a guy with a job.”
Doing John Cage 4’33” at karaoke.
My dog Tony with copies of my book, “Requiem for a College” about the trend of small college closures in the US.
Sticker that reads, “You have more in common with every homeless person than any billionaire.”
Someone didn’t understand Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” so the took a bite out of it.
Star Trek writer Peter David quotes Marvin the Martian.
My book “Requiem for a College” is available now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books-A-Million.
Two students see a homeless man on the street and say, “It’s always so awkward to see our teacher outside of school.”
Academic summer.
I’m an introverted writer, and I suck at marketing. Please buy my book. Thanks.