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snowed
Last night it snowed somewhere between 12 and 14 inches — the whole town seemed concerned about the impending “snowpocalypse,” “snowmaggedon,” or in lolz, “snowMGz.” And it’s gorgeous out. I should have taken some pictures today during daylight, but Dana’s got some great ones.
I walked to a cafe today to eat an afternoon lunch [...]
Latour (1993): We Have Never Been Modern
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This summary is probably going to be a bit flawed and definitely elides some of Latour’s critical moves. I really enjoyed reading this, and thought it was very insightful.
Latour starts his book with 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the [...]
the iowa winter
It’s kinda gloomy here today in southwest Iowa. I stole myself away from the parents’ farm to get some wireless internet fix at the tiny public library. The vacation’s been nice so far… read some old journal articles I’ve been meaning to read, some Harper’s magazines from months and months ago, and most of the [...]
End of term cleansing
So a pic for you. At the end of the term, I hadn’t shaved in two weeks. Felt gross. Decided I needed to cleanse myself of the term by shaving my face and dying my hair back to red. It feels good to be a red-head again:
what a term! whew!
I’m sitting with a cup of coffee about to head out of town for break. So, it’s time for a way-too-brief reflection on the term that just ended and I thought would kill nearly everyone I know. Well, that’s hyperbolic. But seriously, what with the cases of flu my friends got, the heavy workload (it [...]
draft of queer rhetorics bibliography
I’ve created a draft of a bibliography titled “Articles, Books, and Book Chapters about Gay, Lesbian, Trans, and Queer Rhetorics, Queering Rhetoric, Literacy and Sexuality, and the Queer in Composition,” encompassing all the stuff I’ve managed to find regarding those topics. I’m attaching a word document to this post in case you want to download [...]
updates and notes
Wow, it’s really been a month and a half since my last post. I guest that’s a testament to how busy I’ve felt. I’ve had moments where I’ve wanted to write here, but I’ve felt so exhausted or need to work on something else. It’s a busy term. Nothing new there, though oddly this term [...]
changes and such
Wow, I can’t believe how quickly time is passing. I guess that’s cliché, and I’ve written something along those lines various times. I’ve been meaning to write here more often, but it just seems like I am always reading or writing for something else, and when I’m not, I don’t want to be writing more [...]
State of the University Address
This morning, PSU President Graham Spanier delivered the State of the University Address via video. It’s a rather powerful piece of epideictic rhetoric, and I’m glad that Spanier is in touch with media production that allow for broader audiences than a traditional address would have had. I’ll set my cynicism aside (I do have some [...]
I love this ad
My friend from high school sent me this ad. Check out the Southern Iowa ethos building:
