Check out my latest piece for BitchBuzz where I try to focus on the duties I’ll be taking on as coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at my college. It’s going to be a challenge to revitalise the program as we had an off-year last year for a variety of reasons. My thought…
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New Orleans Pix
Not many, admittedly, but some are not forwarding from the phone. Recap to follow. Short version: much food, too much spending, fun with Miss Wendy, a whole lotta folks we always see at PCA and not surprisingly, a bunch of new folks, too. A little work got done even so — surprise!
BitchBuzz: Sic Semper Baconis
Hola from New Orleans! Of course I need to let you all know that my latest piece for BitchBuzz is up and it’s all bacony goodness. Down here at PCA things are jumping. We had a long day getting here, but we had plenty of time to catch up with Miss Wendy and check into…
BitchBuzz: Touching my iPod Touch
Yes, I’ve got a new gig. My first piece is up over at BitchBuzz, the swanky on-line mag founded by Cate Sevilla. She put out a call for new writers on Twitter and accepted my piece about Ianto, my iPod Touch. I will have a piece due every Thursday. It’s great to be a part…
On Not Watching the Oscars
I thought of a lot of blah blah blah I could write, but the truth is actually quite simple. The Oscars have nothing to say to me because the mainstream Hollywood industry has nothing to say to me. I’m a woman over forty: where are my peers? Apart from Meryl Streep, whose consistently stellar abilities…
Live Blogging MLA
Because I always need one more thing to do: I’m going to be live blogging MLA, the Modern Language Association conference. Many of you know that this is the biggest conference in the language and literature fields. It’s not only the place for papers deemed to be cutting edge, it’s also the place where the…
Melinda Gebbie Speaks
Once again smoky and Antonio Solinas have a terrific interview up at The Sardinian Connection, this time the fabulous Melinda Gebbie — she of the incomparably gorgeous art of Lost Girls. Melinda started off in the undergrounds and has been no stranger to controversy over the years. She talks about being compared to S. Clay…
May Day / New Column
The tipping point toward summer is here, yet there was frost on my windshield this morning. Brrr. But the buds on the trees turned into leaves in the course of the weekend I was gone. Speaking of pagan holidays: I’m pleased to announce I’m doing a (paid) bi-weekly column for the four times-a-week newsletter, the…
What’s got art and sounds like a bell?
The last of the Jonathan Miller events took place at the Tang Teaching Center at Skidmore (which comes up on Google after the drink and the dynasty). This was a conversation which seemed to have more potential for fun than the panel discussion and more interactivity than the lecture. Miller took a stand for versatility…
Thursday Already?
My, how time flies! Tuesday night went well — we had a nice chat over an early dinner at the Pearl, then rushed over to the library amid a sudden downpour and an amazing rainbow (okay, the picture to the left is *not* the rainbow from that day, but one of myriad lovely images from…