Wild Tchoupitoulas
06/02/2010
It is the weekend, so we must sing. I sing that it is Carnival time, and that for Carnival, I want to see Indians! Axé.
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS and OTHER PEOPLES’ SKIN
03/02/2010
I had not read anything new at all last Wednesday and so did not post, but now I have read two books, one good and one bad. The bad one, Other Peoples’ Skin, a collection of four novellas by four people, is morally uplifting but as writing, it is about at the level of airplane … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS and OTHER PEOPLES’ SKIN
My Definitive Heel
02/02/2010
Hasta el día en que vuelva, de esta piedra nacerá mi talón definitivo, con su juego de crímenes, su yedra, su obstinación dramática, su olivo. Hasta el día en que vuelva, prosiguiendo, con franca rectitud de cojo amargo, de pozo en pozo, mi periplo, entiendo que el hombre ha de ser bueno, sin embargo. Hasta … More My Definitive Heel
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?
Don Carnaval
31/01/2010
It is the weekend, so we must sing! I sing that the Mardi Gras riders are on their way. The Mardi Gras riders are on their way here. They come from everywhere, but mostly from Grand Mamou. Will you receive this gang of Mardi Gras riders? Will you receive this gang of great drinkers? The … More Don Carnaval
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.
New Orleans Saints
25/01/2010
Oh when the Saints go marching in Oh when the Saints go marching in Yes, we’re going to be in the playoffs when those Saints go marching in. “Oh, what a beautiful audience is out there swinging with us!” Axé.
Academic Mondays: On Overwork
25/01/2010
Why, a reader asks, are students and faculty alike expected to work so much? Ze says: What strikes me as really weird is how incredibly much work everyone is expected to do. Students, faculty, everyone. We’re all so busy that we collapse into puddles of stress at the end of the semester and every single … More Academic Mondays: On Overwork
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
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