ACADEMIA I have criticized Robert Boice’s writings on writing not for their actual content but because, I have said, they speak to people who do not know how to set up a writing program and need to know, or people who do not like to write and need to discover a way to write nevertheless. … More Balance. A Manifesto in Fragments
About my old Professor Zero blog: I clicked on “update” and this destroyed its fine old design in a single stroke. The code by this time was not entirely kosher, so I clicked on “new template.” This destroyed the old links. I decided, well, it is too bad not to have a record of it … More Dark Side
Every morning I face the debris of the life I allowed Reeducation to destroy. Some days it is more difficult than others and today is a difficult day. I have some points to make for this reason. 1. This is not a fully new insight but it is freshly said. Reeducation’s values involved “accepting” unacceptable … More Random Notes on Reeducation
We are told to shop, but I shop for the holidays throughout the year and have no need to do so now. I would be pleased to shop, however. In order that I not stray from my higher purposes by acquiring things which will delay the acquisition of several large objects I really want, I … More Shopping
REEDUCATION Distant traffic hums in the early morning just as it did where I grew up, near but not too near to the highway. I like it because it is the sound of eternity, the sound of the universe. It causes me to wake up happy but I still have to remember not to censor … More Dat Whiteman, or, It Ain’t the Race, It’s the Gender
The first pictures of Machu Picchu were taken by Latin America’s first Native photographer, MARTIN CHAMBI. And I have not met my InaDWriMo goal. I have been unquiet this month. I am more calm now. I am extending InaDWriMo through December and I intend to meet or exceed my original goal. * I lost sight … More MARTIN CHAMBI
Now we will take notes on Christina Crosby, “Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Working in the University of Excellence,” College English 65:6 (July 2003): 626-645. Perhaps I shall cross post these notes at my seminar. * Why do professors have trouble writing, and suffer with it? * Because by writing they enter into a … More Christina Crosby
It is the weekend, so we will sing! Here is the Rankin Family on Fare The Well, Love. I am singing that I am back from the Lousiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and that the visit was not too depressing this time somehow. The Death Row guards are always so nice, and so glad to … More The Rankin Family
What word processing software do you use? Do you like it? Why and/or why not? Do you use Open Office? If so, in what language and with what keyboard? Do you find that MSW opens your .rtfs from OO correctly? Have you used NotaBene or AbiWord, or any other current word processing program? Did you … More Word Processing Survey
At Thanksgiving Maman, meaning Grandmother, made comments in French about the sillier of the grandchildren, who voted for McCain. Grandmother is a nice white lady from the bad old days. She is convinced those days would have returned had we not voted for Barack. * It was in the late eighties that I became a … More C’est si simple
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