We got home from our trip to Pennsylvania yesterday, and thanks to some of your suggestions we did manage to visit Fallingwater as well as Fort Necessity and a couple of other places. I thought we were closer to Pittsburgh than we actually were, so once we realized that Pittsburgh meant another couple of […]
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Fort Necessity and Family Reunions, Oh My!
Published June 23rd, 2008 in Back In the Day, Books, Class, Education, Family, Racism and Travel. 3 CommentsTake it from this documentary junkie, “Resolved” is one of the better documentaries I’ve seen in a couple of years, and lucky for you it’s playing on demand on HBO and is available via Netflix.
“Resolved” trains an eye on high school debate competitions and the peculiar traditions that make them so competitive, also basing a […]
Homogenous, Homogeneous
Published May 31st, 2008 in Celebrity, Education, Indiana, Language and People. 5 CommentsFantastic:
After watching his sister try three times to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Sameer Mishra put himself on a mission. “I told my mom I was going to do the bee,” Sameer said. “And if I was going to do it, I was going to win it one day. And I guess it […]
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower:
We think of college professors as being profoundly indifferent to the grades they hand out. My own professors were fairly haughty and aloof, showing little concern for the petty worries, grades in particular, of their students. There was an enormous distance between students and professors. The full-time, tenured professors […]
Is this genuine or parody?
Regardless, it had me laughing out loud for, like, two minutes.
via The Unapologetic Mexican
1) As part of my recreational, DIY, negative-thinking-immolation, I agreed to participate in a local spelling bee with a couple of coworkers to benefit the area adult education resource center, LARA. Aforementioned coworker Sally suggested several names for our spelling bee team: a) Spell Or Die, b) Spell Fast, Die Young, and […]
On Having Goals
Published January 24th, 2008 in E, Education, Obligation and Relationships. 19 CommentsWhen I was eighteen and pregnant, I went to my sister’s house for a long two week stay. It was reckoning time, time to make decisions about what I was going to do with the baby, what I was going to do with myself, and how I was going to steer my life after […]
The Holes In My Parachute, Or Why Gentleman Farmerhood Sometimes Appeals To The Jaded
Published October 26th, 2007 in Education, Suburbia and Work. 20 CommentsLa Lubu, guest blogging at Feministe for the week, has two fantastic posts up that have kicked me in the ass and all over the field. In Intersecting Identities she has basically laid out my lack of interest in blogging and political activism over the last couple of years and why it’s so hard […]
The Media Collective Gets Sexism in Action
Published September 1st, 2007 in Assholes, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Podcasts and Weirdness. 1 CommentMy friend, a professed gadget geek, decided to take his recording equipment on campus and interview drunk passersby on the sidewalk as they come out of the bars on Purdue University’s main strip. He’s now releasing his recorded material as 2-5 minute podcasts that, as far as experimental radio goes, are pretty damn funny.
In […]
Baby Einstein Videos Don’t Work
Published August 15th, 2007 in Advertising, Children, Consume and Education. 3 CommentsDisney is in an uproar demanding a retraction on a University of Washington study that their Baby Einstein videos don’t advance children’s learning development, and in fact “infants who watched DVD’s and videos designed for babies understood fewer words than did infants who didn’t watch the recorded programs.” No news yet on whether Disney […]
I was going to write a post about how I was a really bad English major. I’m a reader, not a critic, pathetically subjective and skeptical of so-called objective criticisms. I love subjective writing and always looked for opportunities to inject my academic papers with arguments on its behalf. I was the […]
Heh. Indeed.
Published May 3rd, 2007 in Dudes, Education, Entertainment, Feminism and Law. 0 CommentsAll of the righteous indignation over the “injustice” done to Anthony Ciolli is completely misplaced. But also entirely entertaining. The news that he’s been sacked made my day. The semi-informed rantings of second rate law students just caps it.
Comment by Thanks - May 3, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Background and context here.
UPDATE: Terrence writes […]
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