The coaches of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers just would be brothers because these teams are in the 19th century and they must therefore have an incest narrative. Speaking as a person from Louisiana where we have bands, I can say that the Raven Band is useless. The best thing about them is … More Herman Melville
Sunday: six hours, about three each on research and teaching Saturday: five hours, about three on research and two on service and housekeeping Friday (day off): one hour, research Thursday: nine hours, eight on teaching and consulting, one on research Wednesday: six hours, five on service and housekeeping and one on research Tuesday: eight hours, … More Work tracking weekend
This course is needed since Mexico has such a distorted and poor image, but apart from that there is so much material. We could look at Mexican and foreign theories. We could examine calaveras and decipher the china poblana. We could read Monsiváis and much more. This would also be a good course for study abroad. I could teach … More Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness
I also sent that student this poster, as an example of a current Hispanic World academic activity around women and gender. Yes, it is only a beginning junior level course but now is the time, and this person wants to teach. More broadly, if people do not find out how to work now they will … More On due diligence
Is the Brazilian racial situation anomalous, exceptional, unique? I say no and I would also suggest that at least some of the insistence on the mutability of race and the multiplicity of the ways in which racial meaning is and is not created, is a hedging device intended to screen racist practices from view. I … More Punch
These are new things I have invented to eat, and which I can make in less time than it would take to write out: →grilled salmon salad with soy and balsamic vinegar →calf’s liver in tomato pesto I am a genius but I have never learned to cook beans, which is what I want. Mine … More La cuisine
If one of the universities we have in common were a sugar plantation rather than a beach resort, she and I would be cousins; now the family resemblance is starting to show. Enough so that I am startled. Historian Carmen Iglesias has shown that as early as the fifteenth century Spain was already considered by … More Elena Delgado
The sun is so bright, the light is almost as white as it is in June at the 50th parallel. I stayed up impractically late, and I slept late. I am going to give this up but I like to sleep mornings in sunny rooms. I am not sick any more and I want to … More White light
Dear Writing Group: No me he querido extender sobre el tema semanal porque hay tanto que decir, ¡y tanto! Yo esta semana tengo 4,000 palabras remal escritas ¡y es tanto! es decir, ¡son tantas! Algo con qué trabajar dan y esto ¡ya es tanto! Quand on a la vie et la jeunesse, c’est déjà tellement! … More On failure
I get to clock in another hour of work today, making five, because I have been experimenting with Lyx and that is what I am going to use. I will not have Scrivener, I will write in Lyx and put everything in well hierchized and well labeled files, old school style, and that is it. … More As e goes to infinity: further counter-advice on time
