Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne

Here’s a description of what it actually takes for a speaker from another country to come to a campus in the U.S. and deliver a lecture for which he or she receives an honorarium. I avoid these inconveniences since I’m a U.S. citizen, but I have stories from colleagues. Just another way that the American …

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T.A. Spotted At Bar

V for Vendetta was a very entertaining movie. In its hit-you-over-the-head-with-message Hollywood way. It’s like the Wachowski Brothers knew they really screwed the pooch on the Matrix sequels and they were sorry. They wanted to show us they were really sorry. So they made a good movie. It has the basic same theme as the …

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That title’s for my friends to the south. The flakes are big, fluffy and beautiful — they are drifing by the window as I type — and there isn’t much accumulation (at least not yet). Oh, and the snow means it’s getting warmer. Today is a miscellaneous post. Our car got vandalized last week. Someone …

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I think the score is now 17-5-5, but I was a little out of it during the show. There’s this one scene where Jack switched back and forth between “we don’t have time” “you’re going to have to trust me” and “we don’t have a choice” like twice. It was really great.

Not really, but had the store been open I might have been tempted to purchase them. It turns out my flu-like bug was strep throat and the fever was my body fighting the bacteria. Or at least that’s what it had turned in to by the time I went to the CSLC. As usual, that …

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I’ve been in this awful streak of can’t-miss meetings and bureaucratic deadlines combined with, well, being ill. (There was a deceptive moment of recovery this weekend, but it was all LIES!). Tomorrow, I travel. We will return to normal blogging shortly. Our apologies for the interruption.