Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: The Californian Ideology
10/03/2010
Read and discuss. Courtesy of Jennifer. Axé.
Category: News
Anniversaire
25/02/2010
February 18 was the fourth anniversary of this blog and I forgot about it, having been through Saints Fever and Mardi Gras already. My first post on February 18, 2006, was entitled “Greetings” and said: My name is Professor Zero, and I am, loosely speaking, a follower of Paulo Freire. Formerly a Subcommandante, I became … More Anniversaire
Advice to New Faculty, or, Fantasy Letters #101, #007, #99, and #0
23/02/2010
If I had ever actually sent these I would have been a busybody. When the events took place — and it was not one, but several different occasions — I practically sat on my hands so as not to send them. #101 Dear Junior Faculty, Please do not try to intercede in this matter. Your … More Advice to New Faculty, or, Fantasy Letters #101, #007, #99, and #0
Oh When the Saints / Go Swinging In
07/02/2010
Saints! “Oh, what a beautiful audience there is swinging with us!” Axé, New Orleans, Axé. Axé.
Academic Mondays: Funny and Friendly?
01/02/2010
This semester I am not teaching any foreign language courses and it is wonderful. Last semester on Facebook, I completed the quiz “What kind of elementary school teacher are you?” with the result Funny and Friendly. You are a very funny and friendly teacher. You like to make your classroom a fun place to be. … More Academic Mondays: Funny and Friendly?
Howard Zinn
28/01/2010
Howard Zinn died last night at 7:12 PM, EST. Unable to face the State of the Union address, I was grading quizzes. One defined Romanticism as “a literary movement which arose in Germany in the late eighteenth century and then spread elsewhere and which, in contradistinction to Classicism, values imperfection and seeks darkness.” Axé.
A Message I Actually Sent
26/01/2010
“EVEN THOUGH the Superbowl is in the EVENING February 7 and in MIAMI, papers are still due IN PERSON, February 9 at 4! I can drive here from Miami in that time, and so can you!” Axé.
Chris Thomas
23/01/2010
It is the weekend, so we must sing! Here are Chris Thomas and his late father Tabby at a place we used to go in Baton Rouge. I am on my way to Angola. It is a good day for the drive because it is sunny. The area, up near the Natchez Trace, is very … More Chris Thomas
Coral Dress
22/01/2010
It is Friday, so we are wearing white. I am wearing a long white shirt over a coral tank dress from Brazil, and Dr. Scholl’s Original Exercise Sandals ;-). It is January 22 and mild, and we are bathed in Oxalá’s bright light. Axé.
Axé Bahia
08/01/2010
It is Friday, so we are wearing white, and it is the weekend, so we must sing. I sing that today, rather create a new post here, I will work on cleaning up the many posts at my seminar. Meet me at this bookstore, Rio Vermelho branch. Axé.
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