I do not find Barack Obama’s pastor’s remarks offensive at all and I would really appreciate it if someone could explain to me what the problem is. I do not find his church problematic either – in fact, I am getting the impression that it is quite lucid. It certainly does not bear a “message … More Jeremiah Wright
Now it is the weekend, so we will sing: Yo soy aquél que ayer no más decía el verso azul y la canción profana, en cuya noche un ruiseñor había que era alondra de luz por la mañana. El dueño fui de mi jardín de sueño, lleno de rosas y de cisnes vagos; el dueño … More Cantos de vida y esperanza
Below is another post I wrote at another time, and scheduled at random to come up today. Now I am advised to visualize myself encompassed in a blue egg of protective light, and the post I had scheduled to come up is, in a way, one such. I am from the coast and when I … More On Blue Eggs and Beaches
Preface: some readers may know, but others may not, that I do not really write one post a day. Most posts on this blog are written on weekends, at Christmas, and in summer, and they are then scheduled to come up at the rate of about one a day. Some posts – like the recent … More Notes from the Underground
I I had not read Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps in a long time, but now I am reading it to teach it and it is a brilliant riot. All doubting professors should read it, I decree, because its first section is about getting lost in a profession and a marriage. The character, a composer, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Alejo Carpentier and MORE
Having been informed that Barack Obama seems too northern and urban to play well in rural areas, and that his having donned this hat in Austin – the hat that I said made him look like a Louisiana man – helped a great deal, I hasten to reproduce the image. The photograph is by Matthew … More On Hats
I have now been identified as a conservative defender of a conservative canon because I said that: 1) being actively engaged in a field via research was different, and deeper, than being able to pinch-hit in it by covering an undergraduate couse in it; 2) researchers and specialists were resources for the university, not just … More In Which I Am A Conservative Canon-Defender
You are incredibly rude and condescending to women. In fact, your behavior borders on the boorish. I need to remember to explain this you this clearly next time you do it to me, instead of talking back with my usual “Stop it, do not be so silly, listen to what I am saying, we have … More Dear Whiteman
How, precisely, do families who are in the final stages of transformation from Black to white, manage this internally? From what I have observed of people who move out of state to pass, the parents (at least one of whom will still look Creole) will keep a kind of don’t ask don’t tell policy on … More On Passing
It has been semi-collectively decided that on this blog those who wish to do so will wear hakamas. These are unisex, and you can buy them here. I cannot buy mine until April as I have already spent all my March clothing money and more. But I will let you know when I have it, … More Our Unofficial Uniform
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