It is hardly that I do not agree that academic work is work. I have been quoted as saying so on the front page of the Los Angeles Times and that was because of handing out union cards. It was decades ago, and you can tell that to have been allowed to say it on … More Still Mo’ Woikin’
Let’s call what we do WORK, and let’s stop wearing white monogrammed dinner jackets when we do it. Once again: the problem I have with that sentence is that I never didn’t call it work or wear a white monogrammed dinner jacket to do “it.” Writing is fun, publishing is easy, teaching is a pleasant … More More on the Question of Work
The pictures in that video would have looked exotic to me at one time but they no longer do, as such scenes can still be seen. Someone else says: I’m tired of the confidence, the guys who act as if the wind is at their backs, all of which cloaks the true effort involved. Let’s … More Ain’t It Hard
I do not know how many times I have given advice to new faculty, or been given advice, so I have numbered this with a series of functions and variables. I am rebelling by giving anti-advice, as there are so many faculty proffering the kind of advice one gets in graduate school. I dislike re-hearing … More Advice to New Faculty, Version (f)xne
We went over to Lafayette, to this store called Right On Fashions, to see whether we might buy Stetson hats. It seems they are $125 hats, but the store could “let us have them” for $99 plus tax. Yeah, right we said. Nobody knows the trouble I seen, nobody knows the sorrow. Axé.
Classes are starting and we have already had the department party. At the department party: Students: Can we be in your class? Professor Zero: You do not want to be in my class. I am the Worst Professor Ever! Students: You may have heard that, but it is not what our friends say! Allons voir. … More Stolen from Historiann
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
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.
Watch and learn. Axé.
From New York magazine: According to a report by the French magazine L’Express, Mansouret recently revealed to the special prosecutor investigating Tristane’s case that she had a very real, very messy reason for advising her daughter as she did: her own sexual past with DSK. Mansouret told the prosecutor that she had a single, violent … More Anne Mansouret
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