1. Here is an interesting short film and film site. 265,000 of 4,500,000 Louisianians speak French at home. 2. I am watching City of God. Have you seen it? I am finding it rather flat, but this is perhaps because I already know a lot about Rio de Janeiro slums, have seen other films on … More Un Film sur L’Acadie
As we know, it is economic crunch time. And the amount I am required to contribute to the retirement system is now 11% of my monthly check, as opposed to 8% heretofore. And this money goes directly to Wall Street. The cost of groceries has never been a serious factor in my economic problems, but … More Papaya Juice With Orange
Vicente Huidobro’s Poemas árticos, now set to music. V.H. is very amusing and offers an axiom for musicians: “Birds do not sing well.” A famous Arctic Poem is PAQUEBOT, where the mail boat (or boat mail) cuts the horizon in two. Axé.
A. Bibliographical Methods: A student preparing for his comprehensive examination asked about criticism on a writer. “I am looking in JSTOR,” said he. I said he should look in the MLA Bibilography. JSTOR is good, but it only has what it has, it does not give a complete panorama of what is. “I see,” said … More Bibliographical Methods, Puzzle, and Note
I could, but do not have the energy or time, to reproduce my spontaneous speech in class today but it was only the second time I have ever had students applaud and the first time was at the traditional time, at the end of class on the last day. It was in response to certain … More Professor Zero Discusses History
The election was only last week and it is as though years had passed, life seems so different. I was desperately nervous on Election Day despite all the predictions, and it has taken me days to thaw out. I have nationalist sentiments although they are not right wing ones. A student wrote on my Facebook … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: John McCain
All of these things are interrelated and if I had time I would explain to myself how, writing a nice little essay. Instead I will only put them together in the same post. 1. The key issue in Reeducation was the invalidation. You are not valid, your past is not valid, your present is not … More Non Random Bullets
If you had followed me on Twitter today – and I do not “Tweet,” although I do “Facebook” – you would have seen that I: prepared class, gave class, prepared class, gave class, met with students, met with faculty, and did paperwork. All of this took 11 straight hours during which I ate 1/2 of … More Corazonada
These things are at the back of my mind so I am putting them here as a way of aerating my gray matter so it can better do the things it must do today. 1. I have joined InDaWriMo. This was an excellent choice and I recommend it, as it helps very much with focus … More Random Bullets of Working
A. I dreamed and woke up with a three paragraph poem about this in my head, with interesting characters and good images, but it is gone and I do not have time to reconstruct it. Some practical thoughts learned from the poem, about abusive relationships. This is more or less how they proceed: 1. You … More Oneiric
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