Sur les étudiants

Student: This anthology is strange. Professor Zero: Yes. It is an anthology of modern short stories. They are all very strange, it is true. Student: But it is not just that. This class is strange. Professor Zero: How so? Student: It shocks the students. Professor Zero: Is the material that shocking? Student: No. Well, only … More Sur les étudiants

La vérité

The energy is just bad in Maringouin, there is no escaping it. This is why people who know what is good for them are only here during the week, when they have to be at work. My friend says the quality of the energy has to do with all of the enmeshed relationships, which make … More La vérité

I am a fetishist.

So far today I have almost 1,500 hits on this blog, a number I never get, evidently because I mentioned a Hollywood movie and pornography in the same post. I am now attempting to drive my hit count up by declaring myself a fetishist. The blogger Clarissa says she is a masochist and by the … More I am a fetishist.

Breaking pseudonymity, again, and spreading advice for the vain.

Despite poor picture quality (note our vampire eyes!) I am posting this. It was taken on the evening of July 3, 2012, and I am the last person on the right. The first person on the right is someone I wrote about last week. And, despite poor picture quality again, I am posting this as … More Breaking pseudonymity, again, and spreading advice for the vain.

That airport scanner

The TSA employees do not understand that my visceral level reasons for not going through that airport scanner that takes and keeps the equivalent of your naked photograph is not shyness about the body, but the fact that to have that photograph taken, you must stand in the prisoner of war position, hands on your … More That airport scanner

Vignettes from then

On my job interview, we went to a bar to talk and soon realized it was too loud for a business meeting. We decided to move to a diner. I stood up and my prospective department chair said, don’t waste the drinks. We picked them up and walked with them outside. In the halls of … More Vignettes from then