I think I could go to the beach here. There is an old hotel where you can stay four nights for the price of three. The price of three is apparently $221 … for which I would get four … whereas two nights at my place in Houston comes to $234 … and in Houston … More Apalachicola and Carrabelle
1/ Today it took me about six hours to read a long article and write a few words in each of three texts I am working on. I was being slow but I like this and not rushing gets me further in the end. I did not put on timers but I was aware of … More Productivity insights du soir. Ten theses.
I learned from Vanessa Nelsen that Creole costumbrista authors putatively intent on demonstrating social realism pulled characters not from reality, but from a historiographical discourse that they themselves had already created. Does Nelsen know that one of the lettered discourses masquerading as reality is the plaçage myth? It is all quite interesting because the way Emily Clark says … More Shocking new facts about Villaverde
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Latin Wave 8, May 2-5. Axé.
That LaBlanca Dapper One-Piece Striped Maillot is now out in size 6 and more sizes are sure to go. I should not buy a thing but it fits and I wonder, should I take one before my size is out? I was hoping to get one at an end of summer sale, but there may … More Resisting consumerism, or, I will fill my tooth
From the Spanish Professor. Axé.
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More How inflammatory is this?
It is from 1940. I am told that it therefore: (a) lacks modernity (it is old, so it must be antiquated), (b) is unnecessary (we all believe in these principles, so there is no need to write them down), and at the same time (c) is unaffordable (back in the thriving economy of the 1930s … More That statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure
Here is another book we do not have, and that costs $100 to buy. I have La expresión americana somewhere and should seriously read it. Axé.
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