Category: Da Whiteman

I woke up this morning and did odd jobs, sought ways to combat anxiety, and read a brilliant comment on rhetoric and race, hallelu hallelujah.

07/01/2013

For some reason we are not allowed to count as part of our workload, which is otherwise defined very broadly, etters of recommendation and general advising for graduate school admissions as part of teaching, or of advising, or of service to the profession. Translations done pro bono for Halliburton would be community service, so I … More I woke up this morning and did odd jobs, sought ways to combat anxiety, and read a brilliant comment on rhetoric and race, hallelu hallelujah.

Governing through crime

07/01/2013

Here is Jonathan Simon’s law blog and it is worth reading. He does work related to what I would do in law, although mine would be comparative, having an Americas wide scope. W.H. Auden’s scorn for social science is amusing as a riposte here but pitiably parochial from my perspective. Axé.

On Bohemians

04/01/2013

W. H. Auden makes the case for art and against social science, sport, and hygiene I was raised with. I must actually study Thomas’ post, which I have not yet done and which is another matter. I am not a Bohemian but a great bourgeoise. To be a Bohemian like César Vallejo, for instance, you … More On Bohemians

1.1.2013

01/01/2013

I woke up this morning to gray skies, rain, a desk covered with Christmas cards still not answered, and a car that is having some problems. I was awakened by a nightmare in which repairs were being made inside my house — repairs which are necessary but not urgent, and which it would have been … More 1.1.2013

On French

18/12/2012

While I resent the way the French treat the Spanish at my university; while I deny that French Louisiana is all Acadian and that Louisiana is all French; and while I, a skull on a stela at Copán, do not love France in the way I might if I were an upper class postcolonial criollo; … More On French

Brave new year

15/12/2012

I am bothered by this post because it is not the New Year yet and because I associate resolutions with exhortations to discipline and austerity, which I do not lack. Still I am compelled to think about it and this is the current draft of my resolutions: 1. Get comfortable tying the kayak onto the … More Brave new year