FUCKE, as he would say. I just left a comment on another blog while signed in to my university e-mail account, and said comment inadvertently made it clear who the author of this blog is. FUCKE. It doesn’t matter since my ex chair, my ex dean, my ex man and various other people know my … More Comrade Physioproffe
[Mockingbird:] Shake out carols! Solitary here, the night’s carols! Carols of lonesome love! death’s carols! Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon! O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea! O reckless despairing carols. But soft! sink low! Soft! let me just murmur, And do you wait a moment you husky-nois’d … More Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking X
…et alia. To inaugurate Monday. Axé.
A payada sung in 2010, in a prison in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. Para que vean todavía queda algo relativamente auténtico en este mundo degradado, said I, attempting to affect a milonga-style world-weariness. Axé.
This is what privilege looks like: activities and attitudes that would get you serious jail time and massive disapproval if undertaken and evinced by members of the lower classes. Axé.
We took canoes down a bayou to the Gulf and walked working beaches. The other vessels were tugboats, crew boats, barges, shrimpers, and pirogues with outboard motors. There were seagulls, sandpipers, cormorants, egrets, and pelicans of many sizes. Swimming alongside us came thirteen dolphins, some quite small, somersaulting around and around. Intrepid children swam way … More Summer
Sam Stark’s “Let Us Dispute” in The Nation (August 15/22, 2011): 42-45 is a truly fascinating review essay on Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, “I Have always loved the Holy Tongue.” Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011). Casaubon (1559-1614), upon one earlier, less interesting portrait of … More Isaac Casaubon
Axé.
This post is dedicated to Stupid Motivational Tricks, because that is a site about Getting It Done. The bottom line regarding life today is, I need a handyman but cannot get one because, they all say so far, the job I want them for is too small. I have guests coming this weekend and little … More Frustration
Lo dicho, Rising Tide. Despite how busy we are, let’s try to all go. Update: I am going. Here is the blog and here is the poster. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 