Which can of course be considered a complete sentence or a set of guidelines. Let me assent to the former and get on to the latter. I may add more latter. 1. Just because I’m blogging while on sabbatical doesn’t mean I have time to do work for other people that I didn’t have when …
Category Archives: Lists of Things
Goodbye Oughts and Hello Tweens
Okay, we’re back and it should be really, really fixed this time. First, OMG. WordPress says this is post number 1000. I feel like I should do something special. Here’s a pony: Okay, I cannot possibly tell you the best of anything over the last 10 years. I don’t think that way. So here’s some …
Real Estate Afterword: Things We Learned
1. Stuff is really expensive here, but cheap for a city of this size and quality. We just have to deal with it. 1A. Apparently, economists are right about markets. People (i.e., Carrie and I) can be convinced that anything is worth anything. It just takes awhile and slowly one starts to think in terms …
A Couple Montreal Moments
1. The “Wile E. Coyote” Moment. Although Slavoj Zizek apparently prefers those moments when Wile E. Coyote has gone over a cliff but not yet discovered he is about to fall, I prefer moments of sheer, deliberate denial. In the climactic moment of his run-in with Bugs Bunny, he is inside a train car, praising …
File Under Banal: Pittsburgh Shopping List
My trip to Pittsburgh will be a whirlwind affair — about 48 hours in all, with two defenses and a lot of catching up to do. Given the short trip, I’m prioritizing time with friends over places to go, but one can’t help thinking about it. I won’t have a real chance to take advantage …
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In Effect in Villeray
Well, we made it. We are in the new place, more or less (it takes awhile to settle in, you know). The computers work, the DSL works, the stove works (though it is a real PITA to get a gas stove hooked up in Quebec; on the other hand, we have a gas stove again), …
“Not All Chairs are Boring”
I feel like every other entry on this blog begins with a variation of “I’ve been very busy lately” but this one ends the sentence differently: “I’ve been very busy lately with stuff I couldn’t talk about.” Around the middle of May, the chips fell and it became clear that I was to be the …