I had this conversation with a woman who publishes well in feminist theory. WM: What does it cost to have a house professionally cleaned? PZ: A house the size of yours? About $90-120, I would think. The going rate seems to be $15-20 per person per hour, and I estimate it would take three people … More A Feminist Whiteman
Pre-post: Please read WoC PhD‘s post on saving Women’s Studies. Then act in the case she discusses. Then reread the post and keep the analysis in mind as you decide which battles to fight and which to leave alone at your own institution. * Post: I still have cousins in County Galway, in honor of … More Los San Patricios
I do a lot of fun and interesting things but it is evident that I do not have enough pure fun. The evidence is that when I do, I can tell, because I feel completely different. I feel as though I were in California. This weekend we had pure fun by camping in Acadie in … More Fish and Shrimp Stew
I do not find Barack Obama’s pastor’s remarks offensive at all and I would really appreciate it if someone could explain to me what the problem is. I do not find his church problematic either – in fact, I am getting the impression that it is quite lucid. It certainly does not bear a “message … More Jeremiah Wright
Now it is the weekend, so we will sing: Yo soy aquél que ayer no más decía el verso azul y la canción profana, en cuya noche un ruiseñor había que era alondra de luz por la mañana. El dueño fui de mi jardín de sueño, lleno de rosas y de cisnes vagos; el dueño … More Cantos de vida y esperanza
Below is another post I wrote at another time, and scheduled at random to come up today. Now I am advised to visualize myself encompassed in a blue egg of protective light, and the post I had scheduled to come up is, in a way, one such. I am from the coast and when I … More On Blue Eggs and Beaches
Preface: some readers may know, but others may not, that I do not really write one post a day. Most posts on this blog are written on weekends, at Christmas, and in summer, and they are then scheduled to come up at the rate of about one a day. Some posts – like the recent … More Notes from the Underground
I I had not read Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps in a long time, but now I am reading it to teach it and it is a brilliant riot. All doubting professors should read it, I decree, because its first section is about getting lost in a profession and a marriage. The character, a composer, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Alejo Carpentier and MORE
Having been informed that Barack Obama seems too northern and urban to play well in rural areas, and that his having donned this hat in Austin – the hat that I said made him look like a Louisiana man – helped a great deal, I hasten to reproduce the image. The photograph is by Matthew … More On Hats
I have now been identified as a conservative defender of a conservative canon because I said that: 1) being actively engaged in a field via research was different, and deeper, than being able to pinch-hit in it by covering an undergraduate couse in it; 2) researchers and specialists were resources for the university, not just … More In Which I Am A Conservative Canon-Defender
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