1. I saw this movie and then bought this tea and it has changed me for ever, as I did not know I had never had really good tea before. I have realized that coffee is really good and really powerful if you only drink it at 4 PM, my least favorite hour of the … More Five Minutes
On weekends in the winter it is not only possible, but also desirable to roast fowl. I will eventually write a post giving my recommendations for this, because it is very easy if done my way. Also, using the oven helps to heat up the house. The festive aroma, and then sight of a whole … More Cooking on Weeknights
“All power to the soviets” with a small s means “all power to the workers’ councils” and it is a famous phrase from a certain phase of the Russian revolution. I learned it in seventh grade and I like it very much. I often think it and sometimes say it, and I would use it … More All Power to the Soviets!
1. I am still reading The Black Insider very slowly, and I have little new to report on that front except that I have added The House of Hunger, by the same author, to my list, as well as Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Times. I am also reading, strictly for pleasure, the criticism and historical documents … More On Reading for Pleasure and Writing What You Think
In one of my classes all the women are married with children, and their husbands are the ones who work outside the home. They all agree that their husbands should do no housework because they are the only ones bringing in money. They also point out that their brothers are better students than they because … More Gender Roles
I already knew I probably needed a suit, but the Fashionable Academic explains why I also need a black leather blazer. We all do. Meanwhile, I “am” 6:49 A.M. I shall henceforth arise at that moment or its equivalent. Via Ancarett. You’re the time of day right around sunrise, when the sky is still a … More Blazers and Time
I Nezua has this to say on his support of Barack Obama for the U.S. Presidency. The Field Negro and some of his commentators suggest that one reason Obama has so much white support, especially among young voters, is that they think that if they vote Obama they can never be accused of racism again, … More Generation Gap
So I am very pleased with this semester and with my prospects for the medium term future since I have won a useful prize. Still, for what may be worth to others (for me it is worthwhile as a career analysis exercise), and because I spoke from my space of dedication in the recent meme(s) … More YURPIE™
In one of my classes I have just spent two weeks on some Afro-Cuban poetry and it is not because we are studying Blackness but because we are studying the ring of words and these poems contain some very good examples. As it turns out the class has a fairly large Black contingent. These students … More Motivos de son
I won a prize today in my piece of the academic industrial complex. C’est un valuable prize. I have won prizes as valuable before, but never when I needed them as much as I do this one. And it being the weekend, and I not having renounced pleasure for Lent, we will seriously sing. Axé.
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