I play music for my students while they fill out evals. In honor of the fact that, in the end, I don’t know squat about the lives of 20-something women, I like to include something that I find inexplicable that the kids are listening to. So, natch, Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend: Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend (Radio …
April 29, 2009 – 9:40 am
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I give students music for evals. Here’s number 2, from Sigur Ros (It translates to ‘Within me a Lunatic Sings):
April 29, 2009 – 9:20 am
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I always give my students music to listen to while filling out evaluations. Here’s on tap for today: This song is from this album, incidentally. If you don’t feel like dancing, you can always relax and let Buddha take you away. Highlights: at the 2:54 mark, you can see the highest guy in the place …
April 29, 2009 – 9:11 am
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Frankie Manning died yesterday, April 27th. He was a month shy of his 95th birthday. There were (and are) celebrations planned, which will now become memorials. My partner and I started taking swing lessons a good 7-8 years ago, and we’ve probably taken a few workshops a year since then. We go dancing occasionally (a …
Here’s a screenshot of the NYT right this moment: Somehow the combination of Maude’s death, the impending flu epidemic (if not now, soon), continued immigration sadness, the professor suspected in shooting, Iraq still slow-disintegrating, and the incredibly depressing potential re-rise of the monied financial classes. It makes me want to just throw up my hands …
April 25, 2009 – 7:57 pm
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It’s true. Partner and I saw This American Life, simulcast at a movie theater from NYU. The show will air in a couple weeks, I think. The theme was “Return to the Scene of the Crime”, and the highlights (IMHO) were Dan Savage’s tear-inducing story about his lapsed Catholicism, and Joss Whedon’s performance of a …
In another frame of mind, I would say that some crowd-sourced reviews do make me happy. ‘Skip S’ reviews Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion on iTunes: Okay. Imagine sitting back in the day with none other than the Buddha himself. The two of you are discussing life, love, and various other zen things. Then, all …
It seems to me that one of the fundamental advances and problems with web 2.0 is that it poses expertise against aggregation. The ‘old’ system (and here I would say that these are overlapping, not coterminous ways of doing things) is one of expert reviews, or critics. You want to know what movie to see, …
A little information needed, please. How many of you at one point or another were paralyzed from writing and/or posting something on account of feeling like a total fraud? Does having a blog change this, or exacerbate it?
April 20, 2009 – 8:03 pm
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The world would be better if people made this salad more. It takes less than 5 minutes. Materials: a salad bowl and tongs for salad; a small-ish bowl, a small spoon, and a whisk for dressing Ingredients: (for the salad) a big bag of mixed green salad walnuts (toasted a few minutes in a dry …
A colleague asked me to suggest some work productivity tips, and I thought perhaps I could share more widely. Ok, work prod. This stuff gets to be a little bit of an actual substitution for actually, you know, getting your work done, so careful not to let this happen to you. Also, you could probably …
Dear Gov. Perry, Try not to let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. love, Peter
April 16, 2009 – 9:32 am
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I don’t know why I’m in this kind of mood, but wow. In the breathtaking sense. btw, the Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump.
April 8, 2009 – 10:29 pm
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to pick just one from here, but in the end I just couldn’t.
April 6, 2009 – 7:55 pm
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