Board of Regents warns of serious adverse impact of budget shortfalls on higher education SACS institutional accreditation could be in jeopardy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Katara A. Williams Asst. Commissioner for Public Affairs 225-342-4253 February 12, 2016 Baton Rouge, LA -Louisiana’s Commissioner for Higher Education says colleges and universities across the state are bracing … More Doom du jour
It is this weblog’s eleventh Mardi Gras, and the first one was right after Katrina. It was beautiful and we saw Indians, New Orleans Indians and Lafayette Indians in box hats, bonnets carrés. This year again, I will be looking for Indians. The weblog was, effectively, born at midwinter, so this is its tenth anniversary. … More It’s Carnival time!
I bought a book that I was tired of getting by inter-library loan. I ordered a good used copy online. It is an overpriced book and I had only ever seen it in paperback. I thought I would receive a paperback copy. When it arrived, it was in hardcover. I heard myself say: “Oh, look! … More “A whole one”
I dreamed I had washed and dried, in the washer and dryer, a wool cloth coat with a faux fur collar, by mistake. This ought to have ruined it, I would have thought, but it came out fine. I dreamed I was at the MLA translating Fernando del Paso, and I had hired a team … More Dreams
This year’s objects of leisure study are Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Huey P. Long, and Thorstein Veblen. It is important to remember. Axé.
I just signed up for the MLA Subconference, and so should you. Axé.
Narco cartels like Guzman’s are not adversaries of global capitalism, nor even pastiches of it; they are integral to – and pioneers of – the free market. They are its role model. Tout lire. Axé.
Here is our youngest brother, just after defending his dissertation today. Axé.
Look at this interactive exercise. Axé.
I keep not posting, so I am sending myself instead. This was on Maple Street in New Orleans, 20 November 2015. Axé.
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