Looking forward to catching some of these performances in London: I find her work absolutely fascinating. Sarah Angliss and “Spacedog” By K.A. Laity Musician, engineer, writer Sarah Angliss has embarked on a round of performances under the aegis of Spacedog. Her unique combination of nerdy science knowledge, inspired music and automata brings together technology, history and the…
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Today’s Film: The Haunting (1963)
Here’s an interesting combination of trailer and music video (because yes, I can find a connection to The Fall who covered this song, too). I’m looking forward to seeing this fine film with a bunch of students who have never seen it. It’s such an effectively spooky movie!
Blogger Has Been Down
Hence the lack of posting: more soon.
Hectic
Paperwork for the Fulbright to prepare; details to work out; pictures for the work permit; appointments to schedule; belongings to jettison; prep for the reading of “Lumottu”; revisions of essays to finish; grading grading grading. So, um — here’s something from the Fall!
Penultimate Day of Teaching
Up until 2.30 last night finishing something that needed to be done; relieved that the end of the semester is upon me, but also stressed for the same reason (grading, grading), so something more substantial tomorrow. Something to keep you entertained today: the entire documentary “The Wonderful and Frightening World of MES” online. A man…
Converting Monks into Friars in Iowa
So, the trip to Iowa included an unscheduled night in Chicago. A bit irritating to spend all those hours in O’Hare, but the truth is the seasoned traveler needs to be prepared for this kind of inconvenience. I had books to read, things to write and social media at my fingertips where I could complain…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Beowulf
I was thinking, “oh dear, I haven’t had any time at all to read lately and there’s nothing I’ve gotten far enough into [i.e. the Avram Davidson books, thanks Todd :-)] to write up” and then it hit me: Beowulf. Forgotten, you say with the questioning look in your eye. Don’t you teach it every…
Ironic
Today in the New Media class, we’re talking about blogging. I, however, have nothing to blog. Instead I already have a bunch of grading to do, teaching to prepare, schedules to finish working out for the rest of the semester (now incorporating visits by prospective new faculty — hurrah!), a proposal to get sent off…
It Begins
FORGOT! Happy 20th Anniversary, Boojums and happy birthday, Mr. Poe!The semester, that is. Actually it began yesterday, but I teach Mondays and Wednesdays so I all I had to do was, well — get ready to teach today. And deal with all the administrative things I had ignored over the break. Allons-y! I’m teaching the…
Pseudo-Sabbatical
As some of you may remember, I am enjoying my pseudo-sabbatical this semester. I was somewhat put out to find that while it was possible to jump the line to get tenure (which I did 🙂 it was not possible to bend time in order to get a sabbatical. You have to be at the…
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