Early on we see a young Oscar Ghiglia. The video heats up when Segovia loses patience with another student and bursts into Spanish. At the end comes the key comment, on “the delicate lack of respect we have for the rhythm – a lack of respect which defines both the good and the bad artist.” … More Andrés Segovia – Master Class 1965
Read God, Save Us from Merit Pay for Teachers! by The Chaff. Via Unsane and Safe. In good news, 20,000 meritorious people protested WHINSEC on November 18. Bill Quigley writes: Even if the US government is reluctant to close the school, Latin American countries look like they will do it themselves. Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, … More On Merit
I will help anyone, but I will not join an illusion. Illusion: The course Madame is taking with me, she failed with someone else, who discovered late in the semester, as I have just done, that the reason she needs so much tutoring and seems so incapable is that she has refused to take the … More Dear University Student #1
Check him out. Wouldn’t you like to have him come to speak at your school? I know I would. I would need to get several departments on board with me to organize this, though. Perhaps for next year. Meanwhile, following the advice of Unsane and inspired by Morphological Confetti and Wandering Caravan, I have been … More Geoffrey Philp
In rebellion against faux science, and in honor of Peripersonal Space who has announced that the dichohtomy between emotion and reason is false, I hereby designate myself a Hard Bloggin’ Scientist. Click on the badge and you will see what this entails. As a Hard Bloggin’ Scientist I now call for solidarity with and sympathy … More Hard Bloggin’ Scientist
This post is dedicated to Melissa, the thesis writer. Jennifer said in a comments thread here some time ago that “reality” is made up of stereotypes to a greater degree than we commonly think, and I found this quite perceptive. The degree to which stereotypes determine our perception and our experience it is our theme … More In Costume
I need to write the journalistic article I discuss here and two academic articles, and I need to do these things very soon. But it is Sunday and everyone in town but my pagan self is in church confessing, so I will confess, too. I dislike a post to which I will not link and … More In Church
Almost a year and a half ago I wrote a post called Professor Zero and Me in which I discussed the construction of identities on line, and most specifically mine. Is the author the same as the narrator in any literary text? Must a blogging persona correspond to a real life identity or may it … More Sobre la escritura y lo que no es
From Posthegemony: In an era when capitalism is assumed to be not only efficient but also a source of freedom, the careerist seems like the agent of an easy-going tolerance and pluralism. Unlike the ideologue, whose great sin is to think too much and want too much from politics, the careerist is a genial caretaker … More On “Lethal Careerism”
I I dreamed last night that I was drowning a baby in a rushing gutter. I was very sorry to do it but I had been given my instructions – the baby or myself – and I had made my choice. It was a compliant, yet resilient baby. It understood it was to be drowned … More Nightmare
