This is what I have to say on advice for protecting one’s career and not spending too much time on teaching, carajo. I love the atmosphere of a public R-1 and I wish I worked for one that had Ph.D programs in my precise interdisciplinary disciplines, but what I have to say to faculty at … More Public R-1 Faculty Alert
In full corrido-mania I found this villista, 112 years old. Axé.
By a brilliant photographer. Axé.
The character in this novel my class is reading is a composer of narcocorridos, which is one reason why I have so many corridos on this blog lately — I find them as I am looking for examples for the students. Now I have found this, on the Battle of Zacatecas, Zacatecas being one of … More Zacatecas
…with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it’s neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning Axé.
Last night when I got home after an intense discussion of the Trayvon Martin case in this Portuguese conversation group I lead, there were these Black guys working on their stalled truck in the small parking lot kitty corner across from my garage and driveway. After a while one of them came up to my … More Those Stand Your Ground Laws
Here is an article that should embarrass the author, who is fortunately no longer Chancellor at The New School. 15 hours of teaching per week = 15 hours of preparation, in addition to work on course and curriculum development outside term time, so we are up to 30 hours within term time and we have … More Washington Pest
Contact your legislators now to register strong opposition to these bills! The LFT points out: These bills will use the funding process to virtually abolish public education. Your tax dollars will be spent on private and religious schools, virtual schools, home schools and charter schools created by corporations, businesses and industry providers. These bills violate … More HB 976/SB 597: The destruction of public education
I was a child when this song came out. Now I have found it because I searched “Rampart and Dumaine” on the theory that I would pedantically explain to you that that is the address of Congo Square. However, this is what I got; apparently the Beatles stand at that corner as well. Ciudad de … More City of New Orleans
All of this has to do with St. Joseph’s Day in New Orleans, y’all. Axé.
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