Archive for December, 2008
tag cloud on new years eve
A tag cloud of recent posts:
I’m trying to figure out how to get Worlde to do a tag cloud of more than just recent posts, but I can’t figure it out.
Nancy Goldstein on Milk
From Huffington Post:
Yet Milk is curiously placid and sterile, even prudish. We never see more than a tablespoon of blood at a time. The 10-second sex scene we only partially see in a dark bedroom between Milk and a boyfriend is all slap and tickle. And every character, including the runaway teen Milk befriends — [...]
my books in 2008
According to my goodreads account, I’ve read (and finished) about 60 books in 2008. WOW! John listed his top three fiction books of 2008, top three nonfiction books of 2008, and top 3 movies he saw in 2008. I’ll try to follow suit here:
fiction:
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Oranges Are Not [...]
new years on the west coast and some cool stuff
I’m in Oregon! It’s fantastic, of course. While in Iowa, I didn’t nearly get enough work done on my syllabus for next term or revising a few pieces of writing, but hopefully I’ll get some work done here.
An interesting thing I just learned about: In January 1917, there was a molasses spill in Boston. [...]
the depressing thing about Christmas
The depressing thing about the Christmas season—isn’t it?—is that it’s the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice. The Church says what the Church says. But the State says the same thing: maybe not (in some ways it hardly matters) in the language of theology, but in the language the State talks: [...]
Nietzsche on truth
Only through forgetfulness can man ever achieve the illusion of possessing a ‘truth.’ … What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations, which can have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a [...]
A Collage of 2008
John tagged me (in a non-obligated kind of way) for this meme, so i thought I’d oblige and share the title of the first post for each month in 2008 to start to wrap up the year:
• January: i’m back home
• February: Coulter endorses Clinton over McCain
• March: c’mon, you’d “cheat” too
• April: do not [...]
“English Downfall”
via John Walter, here’s a video from Kairos, “leaked” by editor Cheryl Ball:
a belated end of term wrap-up
So, after failing to get 15,000 academic words written in November, I created the same goal for December. Beat it early, but never updated my chart:
22,396 / 15,000(149.3%)
I thought I’d share some word clouds from my papers this term as well. If you want, you can click on the tiny image to see a [...]
the tv teaches me sexism is cool
I don’t watch television. That’s right, I’m one of those edu-macated snobby urban elites who is above televisions. One Who Thinks He Does The World Good By Abstaining From Television. Okay, I’m being all facetious and hyperbolic and whatnot, but I hate the television. Why? It’s got lots of crap, but mostly, lots of sexism. [...]
