. . . chagrined and absolutely mortified that Kanye West was brought up by an English professor? He is a grown man, of course, whose actions are no one’s fault but his own. Perhaps childhood exposure to incessant grammar-correcting, piles of books and the oppressive culture they represent, not to mention the small-stakes politicking that [...]
Archive for September, 2009
12 Sep
Sympathy for teh Basement Cat: I has it.
Like some middle-aged dude with fading tattoos on my sagging, dough-like nether regions, I’ve been trying to get the band back together. Well, not quite. What I’ve actually done is send out an email to a group of my former undergrads, now strewn about the nation’s grad programs, great and, uh, not so great (and [...]
8 Sep
Uh, I could have sworn it said “madwoman.”
According to this quiz, if I were on Mad Men, I would be
. . . Peggy Olson!
Quietly confident, innocent but ambitious, you are most like Sterling Cooper’s eager, hardworking secretary turned copywriter from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (played by Elisabeth Moss). You exude girlish charm with your preppy-chic ensembles and perky ponytails.
Gag. I’ve never seen [...]
6 Sep
Jimmy Choos via Campus Mail
The first thing that popped into my head when I awoke, some eighteen hours ago, was, of all things, the hold music for Fed Ex. Doong doong doong ding ding doong doong doong-doong, goes the vaguely xylophonic synthesizer. And that’s not the annoying part; that would be the pop pop pop pop pop pop pop [...]
3 Sep
Getting them at “hello”
It’s always better on holiday, so much better on holiday, even if you spent it working and listening to crappy songs like the one I quote at the beginning of this sentence. But here we go again. Another academic year, another meeting of the College, another Faculty Council, another departmental meeting, another convocation, another welcome [...]
